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| Herbie Hancock: Two Grammy Nominations Herbie Hancock's Possibilities has received two GRAMMY nominations: Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals (for "A Song For You, " featuring Christina Aguilera) and Best Pop Instrumental Performance (for "Gelo Na Montanha, " featuring Trey Anastasio). The nominations culminate months of acclaim for the album, which Hancock Music, Vector Recordings and Starbucks Hear Music released August 30 to Starbucks Company-operated locations and traditional retail outlets. Possibilities finds Hancock collaborating with a diverse group of world-renowned artists from well beyond the world of jazz, including: John Mayer, Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan, Sting, Annie Lennox, Joss Stone and Jonny Lang, Paul Simon, Raul Midon, Carlos Santana and Angelique Kidjo, Christina Aguilera and Trey Anastasio. "Artists are usually capable of so much more than they're expected to deliver, " said Hancock. "Every track on Possibilities has a surprise in the sense that each artist shows dimensions of their creative abilities that the public is hearing for the first time." Herbie Hancock has remained seminal and innovative through four decades of music making, having won ten GRAMMY Awards, an Academy Award and countless other accolades. Possibilities has been the most successful debut of his career. Over 500, 000 copies of the album have shipped worldwide since Possibilities was released globally the week of August 29, 2005. It sold more than 42, 000 copies in the U.S. alone in its first week on sale and debuted at No. 22 on The Billboard 200 Albums chart. As of December 4, Starbucks Company-operated locations in the U.S. have sold more than 130, 000 copies of the album, accounting for 59 percent of all sales in the U.S. Possibilities spent its first 10 weeks of release at No. 1 on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. On December 7, Hancock and Sting performed the Possibilities track "Sister Moon" on Good Morning America. In October, Christina Aguilera joined Hancock for performances of "A Song for You" on The Tonight Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Possibilities has achieved resounding critical praise from The New York Times, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Billboard and O, The Oprah Magazine, National Public Radio, VH1 News and CNN Headline News' Showbiz Tonight. The album received rave reviews in two consecutive issues of People and both the September and October issues of Esquire. Esquire described the album as "one that truly shows genius loves company." Adding, "The surprise isn't that it's bound to earn an armload of GRAMMY(R)s but that the record's cohesive and compelling enough that they'll be well-deserved." The Philadelphia Inquirer said Hancock "lift(s) each participant to a higher, soulful challenge." As with the multi-platinum Ray Charles' Genius Loves Company -- which won eight GRAMMY Awards in February 2004--Starbucks is participating in many facets of the project's lifecycle, from facilitating production to distribution and marketing of the album. The GRAMMY nominations for Possibilities represent the second year in a row in which an album Starbucks Hear Music co-released has received multiple GRAMMY nominations since Starbucks launched its music strategy with the release of Genius Loves Company in 2004. Through a distribution agreement with Warner Music International, Hancock's Possibilities was released globally the week of August 29, at traditional music retail and select Starbucks locations. The release of Possibilities was the first time Starbucks has made a CD available simultaneously at Company-operated locations in the U.S. and select international markets, including Australia, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Jazz News :: home page |