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| EMI Jazz & Classics - 14 Grammy Nominations EMI Jazz & Classics Artists Earn 14 Nominations In The 48th Annual Grammy Awards EMI Jazz & Classics, the label group comprising Blue Note, Angel, EMI Classics & Virgin Classics, earned 14 nominations in the 48th Annual GRAMMY Awards for releases by artists including Terence Blanchard, Wynton Marsalis, Anoushka Shankar, Martha Argerich, Maxim Vengerov, Rolando Villazn and Natalie Dessay. Trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard received two nominations for his album Flow (Blue Note), which was produced by jazz legend, and 10-time GRAMMY-winner, Herbie Hancock, who also makes a guest appearance on piano. Deemed “stirring and soulful” and “one of the strongest albums of his distinguished career” by JazzTimes, Flow is up for both Best Jazz Instrumental Album and Best Jazz Instrumental Solo for Hancock's solo turn on “The Source.” Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, a nine-time GRAMMY-winner, went back to basics with Live At The House Of Tribes (Blue Note), a live set of standards with his quintet from an intimate New York City theater. The album, which The Washington Post said “may be his finest, most complete work of pure trumpet playing to date, ” has earned him a nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Album. Sitarist/composer Anoushka Shankar received her second GRAMMY nomination for Best Contemporary World Music Album for her breakout effort on Rise (Angel), on which she blends Indian classical music with electronica and other World musics to stunning effect. Global Rhythm called the album “an ascension toward a new way of experiencing Indian music.” Two-time GRAMMY-winner and pianist Martha Argerich has been nominated in two categories for Best Classical Album and Best Chamber Music Performance for her release Martha Argerich and Friends: Live at the Lugano Festival (EMI Classics), a showcase of her collaborations with some of today's finest young chamber musicians. She is joined in the Best Classical Album category by fellow double-nominee, the renowned conductor Mariss Jansons who is nominated for his recording of the Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 (EMI Classics) with one of Europe's top-ranked orchestras, the Bayerischer Rundfunk. This remarkable recording is also nominated for Best Orchestral Performance. The champions of Italian Baroque repertoire, violinist Fabio Biondi and his band Europa Galante, are nominated for Best Opera Recording for their world premiere release of Vivaldi's Bajazet (Virgin Classics), Biondi's first opera recording for the label. Having won his first-ever GRAMMY Award in 2001, the cellist Truls Mrk is nominated once again for his recording of the Schumann Cello Concerto (Virgin Classics) with conductor Paavo Jrvi in the category for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (with Orchestra). Two young and ground-breaking instrumentalists are recognized in the Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra) category. Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski's remarkable disc of Szymanowski's Piano Sonata No. 3 (Virgin Classics) brings this unconventional soloist and past GRAMMY nominee back to the fore-front of his field. The young Russian violin virtuoso and GRAMMY-winner Maxim Vengerov is also nominated in the category for Vengerov!, which features works by Kreisler, Sarasate, Paganini, and Wienaiwski. The Best Classical Vocal Performance category boasts two of today's most charismatic personalities on the opera stage: Mexican tenor Rolando Villazn for his collection of French arias Gounod and Massenet (Virgin Classics), and French soprano Natalie Dessay with her first solo nomination for her recording Strauss: Amor (Virgin Classics). Blue Note artist Norah Jones, already an eight-time Grammy-winner, was nominated twice again this year for collaborations on other labels, including “Virginia Moon” from the Foo Fighters' album In Your Honor on RCA Records, and “Dreams Come True” from Willie Nelson's album It Will Always Be on Lost Highway Records. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Jazz News :: home page |