2009 Grammys

[Lois Gilbert]

For recordings released during the Eligibility Year
October 1, 2007 through September 30, 2008
Note: More or less than 5 nominations in a category is the result of ties.

Category 40

Best Country Instrumental Performance
(For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, without vocals. Singles or Tracks only.)

Sumatra
Cherryholmes
Track from: Cherryholmes III: Don't Believe
[Skaggs Family Records]


Two Small Cars In Rome
Jerry Douglas & Lloyd Green
Track from: Glide
[Koch]


Sleigh Ride
Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Track from: Jingle All The Way
[Rounder]


Is This America? (Katrina 2005)
Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny, Jerry Douglas & Bruce Hornsby
Track from: Family & Friends — Rambling Boy
[Decca Records]


Cluster Pluck
Brad Paisley, James Burton, Vince Gill, John Jorgenson, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert & Steve Wariner
[Arista Nashville]


Field 9 — New Age



Category 44

Best New Age Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)

Meditations
William Ackerman
[Compass Productions]


Pathfinder
Will Clipman
[Canyon Records]


Peace Time
Jack DeJohnette
[Golden Beams/Kindred Rhythm]


Ambrosia
Peter Kater
[Point Of Light Records]


The Scent Of Light
Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra
[SSRI]



Field 10 — Jazz



Category 45

Best Contemporary Jazz Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

Randy In Brasil
Randy Brecker
[MAMA Records]


Floating Point
John McLaughlin
[Abstract Logix]


Cannon Re-Loaded: All-Star Celebration Of Cannonball Adderley
(Various Artists)
Gregg Field & Tom Scott, producers
[Concord Jazz]


Miles From India
(Various Artists)
Bob Belden, producer
[4Q/Times Square Records]


Lifecycle
Yellowjackets Featuring Mike Stern
[Heads Up International]







Category 46

Best Jazz Vocal Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

Imagina: Songs Of Brasil
Karrin Allyson
[Concord Jazz]


Breakfast On The Morning Tram
Stacey Kent
[Blue Note]


If Less Is More...Nothing Is Everything
Kate McGarry
[Palmetto Records]


Loverly
Cassandra Wilson
[Blue Note]


Distances
Norma Winstone (Glauco Venier & Klaus Gesing)
[ECM]


Category 47

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
(For an instrumental jazz solo performance. Two equal performers on one recording may be eligible as one entry. If the soloist listed appears on a recording billed to another artist, the latter's name is in parenthesis for identification. Singles or Tracks only.)

Be-Bop
Terence Blanchard, soloist
Track from: Live At The 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival (Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary All-Stars)
[Monterey Jazz Festival Records]


Seven Steps To Heaven
Till Brönner, soloist
Track from: The Standard (Take 6)
[Heads Up International]


Waltz For Debby
Gary Burton & Chick Corea, soloists
Track from: The New Crystal Silence
[Concord Records]


Son Of Thirteen
Pat Metheny, soloist
Track from: Day Trip
[Nonesuch Records]


Be-Bop
James Moody, soloist
Track from: Live At The 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival (Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary All-Stars)
[Monterey Jazz Festival Records]

Category 48

Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

The New Crystal Silence
Chick Corea & Gary Burton
[Concord Records]


History, Mystery
Bill Frisell
[Nonesuch Records]


Brad Mehldau Trio: Live
Brad Mehldau Trio
[Nonesuch Records]


Day Trip
Pat Metheny With Christian McBride & Antonio Sanchez
[Nonesuch Records]


Standards
Alan Pasqua, Dave Carpenter & Peter Erskine Trio
[Fuzzy Music]


Category 49

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
(For large jazz ensembles, including big band sounds. Albums must contain 51% or more INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

Appearing Nightly
Carla Bley And Her Remarkable Big Band
[WATT]


Act Your Age
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
[Immergent]


Symphonica
Joe Lovano With WDR Big Band & Rundfunk Orchestra
[Blue Note]


Blauklang
Vince Mendoza
[Act Music and Vision (AMV)]


Monday Night Live At The Village Vanguard
The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra
[Planet Arts Recordings]







Category 50

Best Latin Jazz Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)

Afro Bop Alliance
Caribbean Jazz Project
[Heads Up International]


The Latin Side Of Wayne Shorter
Conrad Herwig & The Latin Side Band
[Half Note Records]


Song For Chico
Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra
[Zoho]


Nouveau Latino
Nestor Torres
[Diamond Light Records]


Marooned/Aislado
Papo Vázquez The Mighty Pirates
[Picaro Records]

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Originally Posted by Lois Gilbert

Is This America? (Katrina 2005)
Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny, Jerry Douglas & Bruce Hornsby
Track from: Family & Friends — Rambling Boy
[Decca Records]



History, Mystery
Bill Frisell
[Nonesuch Records]

I've been raving about that beautiful Metheny composition here! It would be a stretch for it to win in Country, but that would be a good thing.

The Frisell is excellent, too, and seems to get better with each listen. Up there with Unspeakable (and similar in its use of the strings) as his best album in recent years.

[Gentle Giant]

Trying to wrap my mind around the idea that Jack DeJohnette is in the New Age category.

[dizmonk]

under the best instrumental album I think they made some very good choices...

I'm kinda rooting for Metheny....

[me wag]

I've only heard the Bill Frisell and Carla Bley albums. I need to give the Frisell another try but the Bley is great. I really liked what I heard from the Charlie Haden band on Letterman the other night so I might have to get that as well.

[Mike Schwartz]

Having seen Mr. Jones play a wonderful set at Yoshi's mid-week and knowing he was out here to receive this award, glad to see that it will make the TV broadcast, and bring his considerable touch of class.

Recipients of the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award were announced on December 22, 2008 by The Recording Academy. A special invitation-only ceremony for the presentation of these Awards will be held the night before the Grammy Awards, and a formal acknowledgment will be made during the Grammy Awards telecast, which will be broadcast live February 8th on CBS. The Lifetime Achievement Award honors lifelong artistic contributions to the recording medium and is determined by vote of The Recording Academy's National Board of Trustees. The ASCAP members receiving Lifetime Achievement Awards will be Gene Autry, Hank Jones and Tom Paxton.

[Lois Gilbert]

Congratulations to Randy Brecker - I don't know the other winners yet.

[Mike Schwartz]

Originally Posted by Lois Gilbert

Congratulations to Randy Brecker - I don't know the other winners yet.

Many of the winners are already posted on the Grammy site, since the different genres do a lot of the business in the days prior to the Tv broadcast.

A couple that I can recall are the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Arturo O'Farrill's Orchestra, Cassandra Wilson........

[chickyraptor]

Cluster Pluck
Brad Paisley, James Burton, Vince Gill, John Jorgenson, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert & Steve Wariner
[Arista Nashville]

Best title, hands down.

[Mike Schwartz]

Best Contemporary Blues Album: Dr. John and the Lower 911, City That Care Forgot

Best Latin Jazz Album: Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Song for Chico

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard


Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group: Chick Corea and Gary Burton, The New Crystal Silence

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo: Terence Blanchard, soloist, "Be-Bop"

Best Jazz Vocal Album: Cassandra Wilson, Loverly

Best Contemporary Jazz Album: Randy Brecker, Randy in Brasil

Best New Age Album: Jack DeJohnette, Peace Time

Best Album Notes: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Francis Davis, album notes writer)

[Scott Yanow]

It's good to know that the Grammies are consistent. The best known artists win. When is the jazz world going to stop grasping at these crumbs and just boycott the whole travesty?

[Lois Gilbert]

Originally Posted by Mike Schwartz

Best Contemporary Blues Album: Dr. John and the Lower 911, City That Care Forgot

Best Latin Jazz Album: Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Song for Chico

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard


Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group: Chick Corea and Gary Burton, The New Crystal Silence

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo: Terence Blanchard, soloist, "Be-Bop"

Best Jazz Vocal Album: Cassandra Wilson, Loverly

Best Contemporary Jazz Album: Randy Brecker, Randy in Brasil

Best New Age Album: Jack DeJohnette, Peace Time

Best Album Notes: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Francis Davis, album notes writer)

This list is really the same as all genres of music that the major labels and recognizable names are still in the frontal lobes of NARAS members.

[Rob Damen]

And so my premonition from a year ago comes true:

Plant and Krauss win best album for "Raising Sand" ...

Great record.

Not representative of the current music scene, but a great record nonetheless.

Cheers,

Rob

[lazarus]

Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)
(Award to the Instrumental Soloist(s) and to the Conductor.)

Schoenberg/Sibelius: Violin Concertos
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Hilary Hahn (Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra)
[Deutsche Grammophon]


That must be my favorite cd from last year. Highly recommended to all fans of great music!!



"Raising Sand" is also very good.

I haven´t heard any of the jazz cd´s but have been curious about the new Cassandra Wilson.

[Steve Reynolds]

I agree with Mr. Yanow


problem is nobody defines what the jazz world is

The supposed jazz world itself doesn't even believe the *greatest* jazz musicians belong in the jazz world or more simply put doesn't even know they exist.

Did hamid Drake get nominated for best instrumental something or other or did I miss something?

or maybe they are like my friend who actually played as Dejohnette's back-up in the 70's & 80's with guys like David Murray - who doesn't even know who he is

says that he can't be what he is - yet I just smile - give him a disc next week and see if he is willing to hear the *greatest* groove in the world,,,

maybe when he turns 60 in 6 years or so, he can get new artist deserving more recognition - or maybe that's downbeat

ha

and,,,,

Did Fred Anderson get his lifetime achievement award yet?

Does anyone know he is out there?

Randy Brecker might be anice trumpet player - but has anyone here who loves this music ever really written a damn word about him here?

Has he ever made a great jazz record?

If he did, was it 25 years ago?

ok - let's talk about Randy in Brasil

does contemporary mean phony bullshit commericial wannabe garbage?

that's what I thought

Did the living members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago get some air time last night or did I miss it?


RIP

Malachi Favors


they never ever cared ro had any interest to care


and I have never watched the grammies ever - and never will


still,,,,




Coming Down the Mountain

[Uli]

Yeah, but what happened with Rihanna and Chris?

[Gary Sisco]

The Grammy shit will disappear along with the major labels as we know them. Walking dead.

[Gary Sisco]

I posted this on the download thread a while back: It's almost silly, the major labels and their conservatism. They just don't get it. Everyday they become more irrelevant to music. Everyone chooses their own "stars" now. We don't need no stinking major labels. Note the commentary about singles, though. I was already saying that in the 90s when they were bemoaning the sales slump that was already underway then and has only snowballed since.

http://www.reuters.com/article/enter...5147ZF20090206

[Mike Schwartz]

Reynolds,

You know there are many here who love your passion, as well as those besides you who take turns from time to time getting up on the soap box.

"ok - let's talk about Randy in Brasil

does contemporary mean phony bullshit commericial wannabe garbage?"

Are you back to your *old ways* of putting down what you have not heard?

FWIW, I've listened to more than a few jazz CD's during the period the award takes in. If I compiled a list, would the Brecker CD be on my short list? No. Is it well done? Yes. Is Randy an outstanding trumpeter.Yes?

Is the Hank Jones recognition something they got right? Yes. Naming all the wonderful folks missing regarding the Grammys is the epitome of pissing in the wind.

I surfed my way through as much of the TV show as I could put up with......when boy band sensation Jonas Brothers destroyed "Superstitious" with Stevie Wonder (no relation to Reynolds) sitting in, was done.

As the Jonas' repeatedly urged "C'Mon Stevie" for Wonder to bring it or solo, made me bow my head in shame for every un_cool white guy on the planet. They got a standig "O" when they finished.

Let's not take our eyes off the ball........it's The Grammys

[Steve Reynolds]

of course I get overly emotional

I am sure Randy in Brasil is an inoffensive well done recording

as afar as Randy Brecker, he is a good trumpeter

does he matter?

a simple point

[Rob Damen]

Not to defend Brecker or the Grammies, but ...

Most people would argue that what you like, Steve, doesn't matter.

Cheers,

Rob

[rollhead]

Congratulations to Tom Bellino at Planet Arts Recordings.

[rollhead]

Originally Posted by Rob Damen

Not to defend Brecker or the Grammies, but ...

Most people would argue that what you like, Steve, doesn't matter.

Cheers,

Rob

I wouldn't argue that at all. What Steve R. likes matters to me. I have learned a great deal from him, and he, as much as anyone on this BBS, has opened my ears to a lot of of music that I love.

I thank him for that.

[Rob Damen]

OK, yeah, sure ... for you.

Some of us were reading the Penguin Guide well before we got here.

That said, I guess what I'm getting at is this: Would acknowledgement from the Grammies really change your or anyone else's life?

Why seek recognition from people who don't care in the first place?

I guess it would kill the fun of moaning and groaning about it, no?

All this self-righteousness is a little overdone and silly.

Cheers,

Rob

[Paul B]

I agree that it's useless to bemoan the Grammies. To use an annoying phrase from another thread, they are what they are. I can't imagine getting too worked up about the fact that many musicians I like would never even be on the radar of those who pick the winners. In any case, what "matters" to each of us is an entirely subjective thing; I need neither the Penguin Guide nor the Grammies to tell me what fits that bill.

[Rob Damen]

Thanks, Paul B.

I settled my differences with the Grammies years ago. They honor sales and popularity and those things have their place.

I watched it last night, more of out tradition than anything else. Most of the performances were horrid, but I was surprised at some of them.

Coldplay gets a bad rap, but I thought they put on a good spot. And "Viva La Vida" is a pretty good album.

Believe it or not, I think Carrie Underwood might have been the best performace of the night. Beautiful legs and good voice, too, I must say, even if I can't stand her music.

I didn't buy what the L.A. Times said about Radiohead getting jobbed. I thought Plant and Krauss were deserving of the award, and I didn't think that "In Rainbows," a really good record, was all that innovative, at least not incomparison to their other albums, some of which I thought were a little better.

Cheers,

Rob

[Steve Reynolds]

I don't watch the idiotic show out of tradition - because I believe in the tradition


because I can't get myself to waste my heart and mind on the tripe that is the grammies.


maybe that's what I mean by something mattering.

maybe that's what happens when one considers even listening to Coldplay.

maybe you are also watching American Idol every week

maybe Wynton and you should be guest judges.


Ancient to the Future, baby

[Captain Hate]

Yes I've given up complaining about the Grammys because it serves no purpose except to continue to rail about the large labels. I'm a bit curious as to why Rob likes the Plant/Krauss disc; I've been a fan of hers going back to the late 80s but didn't like this disc at all. Not that my opinion about her matters since she seems to have reached the "too big to fail" level and can now just release "product" until the cows come home.

[tippy]

I really don't think Radiohead was nominated, Rob.

[Captain Hate]

I'm surprised "the biz" doesn't set up a sting to try and nab Girl Talk for all his copyright violations by offering him some bogus "Most Creative Illegal Download Mix" category prize.