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| Berklee Alumni Earn 25 Grammy Award Nominations The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences nominated 23 Berklee alumni for a total of 25 Grammy Awards. The nominees were recognized for their outstanding contributions across the spectrum of music, including pop, rock, hip-hop, alternative, jazz, and Latin, and producing, engineering, arranging, and composing. To date, Berklee alumni have won a total of 176 Grammy Awards. The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards will be held on Sunday, January 31, 2010, and broadcast on CBS at 8:00 p.m. Grammy-nominated alumni include Black Eyed Peas drummer/producer Keith Harris '99, Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album, The E.N.D.; Lalah Hathaway '90, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, "That Was Then"; Susan Tedeschi '91, Best Contemporary Blues Album, Back to the River; Diana Krall '83, Best Classical Crossover Album, Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy and Peace; and Steve Vai '79, Best Rock Instrumental Performance, "Now We Run." Makeba Riddick '99, cowriter of Jay Z's "Run This Town, " was nominated for Best Rap Song. Engineer/ mixer Miles Walker '03 received a nomination for Album of the Year for his work on BeyoncИ's I Am... Sasha Fierce. Miguel ZenСn '98 received two nominations this year; he'll compete with Claudio Roditi '70 and Geoffrey Keezer '88 for Best Latin Jazz Album, and Roy Hargrove '89 for Best Improvised Jazz Solo. Other jazz nominees included Luciana Souza '88 and Tierney Sutton '87, Best Jazz Vocal Album; Joe Zawinul '59, Mike Stern '75, Philippe Saisse '78, and Julian Lage '08, Best Contemporary Jazz Album; and Diego Urcola '90, Best Classical Crossover Album, Jazz-Clazz, Paquito D'Rivera Quintet. Quartet Live an album featuring alumni Gary Burton '62, Antonio Sanchez '97, and former professors Pat Metheny and Steve Swallow was nominated for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group. Additional nominees included engineers Rob Mounsey '75 and Jay Newland '84, Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, Swan Feathers. Drum icon Levon Helm, who attended Berklee for a semester in '72, was nominated for Best Americana Album. A complete list of Berklee alumni nominees for the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards follows. Category 2 - Album Of The Year The E.N.D. (The Black Eyed Peas), Keith Harris '99, producer [Interscope Records] I Am... Sasha Fierce (BeyoncИ), Miles Walker '03, mastering engineer [Music World Music/Columbia] Category 11 - Best Pop Vocal Album The E.N.D. (The Black Eyed Peas), Keith Harris '99, producer [Interscope Records] Category 19 - Best Rock Instrumental Performance Now We Run, Steve Vai '79 [Favored Nations Entertainment] Category 23 - Best Female R&B Vocal Performance That Was Then, Lalah Hathaway 90 Track from: Self Portrait [Stax Records/Concord Music Group] Category 34 - Best Rap Song That Was Then (Jay-Z), Makeba Riddick '99, songwriter [Roc Nation] Category 44 - Best Contemporary Jazz Album Sounding Point, Julian Lage '08 [Emarcy/Decca] At World's Edge, Philippe Saisse '78 [E1 Music] Big Neighborhood, Mike Stern '75 [Heads Up International] 75, Joe Zawinul '59 & The Zawinul Syndicate [Heads Up International] Category 45 - Best Jazz Vocal Album Tide, Luciana Souza '88 [Verve] Desire, Tierney Sutton '87 (Band) [Telarc Jazz] Category 46 - Best Improvised Jazz Solo Ms. Garvey, Ms. Garvey, Roy Hargrove '89, Track from: Emergence [Groovin' High/Emarcy] Villa Palmeras, Miguel ZenСn '98, Track from: Esta Plena [Marsalis Music] Category 47 - Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group Quartet Live, Gary Burton '62, Antonio Sanchez '97 [Concord Jazz] Category 49 - Best Latin Jazz Album аurea, Geoffrey Keezer '88 [ArtistShare] Brazilliance X 4, Claudio Roditi '70 [Resonance Records] Esta Plena, Miguel ZenСn '98 [Marsalis Music] Category 64 - Best Americana Album Electric Dirt, Levon Helm '72 [Dirt Farmer Music/Vanguard Records] Category 67 - Best Contemporary Blues Album Back To The River, Susan Tedeschi '91 [Verve Forecast] Category 91 - Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical Swan Feathers (Leslie Mendelson), engineers Rob Mounsey '75 and Jay Newland '84 [Rykodisc] Category 107 - Best Classical Crossover Album Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs Of Joy And Peace, Diana Krall '83 [Sony Classical] Jazz-Clazz (Paquito D'Rivera Quintet), Diego Urcola '90 [TIMBA Records] write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Jazz News :: home page |