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2014 Grammy Awards

27 Jan 14 - 03:29 AM (#3595810)
Subject: 2014 Grammy Awards
From: Joe Offer

They cut back on the number of folk and traditional categories this year, but these winners may interest you:

    41. BEST LATIN POP ALBUM
    Vida
    Draco Rosa
    Label: Sony Music Latin

    42. BEST LATIN ROCK, URBAN OR ALTERNATIVE ALBUM
    Treinta Días
    La Santa Cecilia
    Label: Universal Music Latino Y Arju Productions, Inc.

    43. BEST REGIONAL MEXICAN MUSIC ALBUM (INCLUDING TEJANO)
    A Mi Manera
    Mariachi Divas De Cindy Shea
    Label: East Side Records/Shea Records

    44. BEST TROPICAL LATIN ALBUM
    Pacific Mambo Orchestra
    Pacific Mambo Orchestra
    Label: Tumalanmusic / Stefrecords

    45. BEST AMERICAN ROOTS SONG
    Love Has Come For You
    Edie Brickell & Steve Martin, songwriters (Steve Martin & Edie Brickell)
    Track from: Love Has Come For You
    Label: Rounder; Publishers: LA Films Music/Brick Elephant Music

    46. BEST AMERICANA ALBUM
    Old Yellow Moon
    Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
    Label: Nonesuch Records

    47. BEST BLUEGRASS ALBUM
    The Streets Of Baltimore
    Del McCoury Band
    Label: McCoury Music

    48. BEST BLUES ALBUM
    Get Up!
    Ben Harper With Charlie Musselwhite
    Label: Stax

    49. BEST FOLK ALBUM
    My Favorite Picture Of You
    Guy Clark
    Label: Dualtone

    50. BEST REGIONAL ROOTS MUSIC ALBUM
    Dockside Sessions
    Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience
    Label: Musicmatters Records

    51. BEST REGGAE ALBUM
    Ziggy Marley In Concert
    Ziggy Marley
    Label: Tuff Gong Worldwide

    52. BEST WORLD MUSIC ALBUM (TIE)
    Savor Flamenco
    Gipsy Kings
    Label: Knitting Factory Records

    Live: Singing For Peace Around The World
    Ladysmith Black Mambazo
    Label: Ladysmith Black Mambazo

    53. BEST CHILDREN'S ALBUM
    Throw A Penny In The Wishing Well
    Jennifer Gasoi
    Label: Sparkling Productions

    54. BEST SPOKEN WORD ALBUM (INCLUDES POETRY, AUDIO BOOKS & STORYTELLING)
    America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't
    Stephen Colbert
    Label: Hachette Audio

    55. BEST COMEDY ALBUM
    Calm Down Gurrl
    Kathy Griffin

    56. BEST MUSICAL THEATER ALBUM
    Kinky Boots
    Billy Porter & Stark Sands, principal soloists; Sammy James Jr., Cyndi Lauper, Stephen Oremus & William Wittman, producers; Cyndi Lauper, composer & lyricist (Original Broadway Cast With Stark Sands, Billy Porter & Others)
    Label: Masterworks Broadway

    57. BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA
    Sound City: Real To Reel
    Butch Vig, compilation producer
    Label: RCA Records/Roswell Records

    58. BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA
    Skyfall
    Thomas Newman, composer
    Label: Sony Classical

    59. BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR VISUAL MEDIA
    Skyfall
    Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth, songwriters (Adele)
    Track from: Skyfall
    Label: Columbia Records/ XL Recordings; Publishers: Universal Music Publishing Ltd./EMI Music Publishing Ltd.

    60. BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION
    Pensamientos For Solo Alto Saxophone And Chamber Orchestra
    Clare Fischer, composer (The Clare Fischer Orchestra)
    Label: Clavo Records

    61. BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT
    On Green Dolphin Street
    Gordon Goodwin, arranger (Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band)
    Label: Telarc International

    62. BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT ACCOMPANYING VOCALIST(S)
    Swing Low
    Gil Goldstein, arranger (Bobby McFerrin & Esperanza Spalding)
    Label: Masterworks

    63. BEST RECORDING PACKAGE
    Long Night Moon
    Sarah Dodds & Shauna Dodds, art directors (Reckless Kelly)
    Label: No Big Deal Records

    64. BEST BOXED OR SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE
    Wings Over America (Deluxe Edition)
    Simon Earith & James Musgrave, art directors (Paul McCartney And Wings)
    Label: Hear Music

    65. BEST ALBUM NOTES
    Afro Blue Impressions (Remastered & Expanded)
    Neil Tesser, album notes writer (John Coltrane)
    Label: Pablo/Concord Music Group

    66. BEST HISTORICAL ALBUM (TIE)
    Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965
    Teri Landi, Andrew Loog Oldham & Steve Rosenthal, compilation producers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (The Rolling Stones)
    Label: ABKCO

    The Complete Sussex And Columbia Albums
    Leo Sacks, compilation producer; Joseph M. Palmaccio, Tom Ruff & Mark Wilder, mastering engineers (Bill Withers)
    Label: Columbia/Legacy Recordings

    67. BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, NON-CLASSICAL
    Random Access Memories
    Peter Franco, Mick Guzauski, Florian Lagatta & Daniel Lerner, engineers; Antoine "Chab" Chabert, Bob Ludwig, mastering engineers (Daft Punk)
    Label: Columbia Records

    68. PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL
    Pharrell Williams
    • BBC (Jay Z) (T) • Blurred Lines (Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. & Pharrell) (S) • Happy (Pharrell Williams) (T) • I Can't Describe (The Way I Feel) (Jennifer Hudson Featuring T.I.) (S) • Nuclear (Destiny's Child) (T) • Oceans (Jay Z Featuring Frank Ocean) (T) • Reach Out Richard (Mayer Hawthorne) (T) • The Stars Are Ours (Mayer Hawthorne) (T)

    69. BEST REMIXED RECORDING, NON-CLASSICAL
    Summertime Sadness (Cedric Gervais Remix)
    Cedric Gervais, remixer (Lana Del Rey)
    Label: Interscope/Polydor UK

    70. BEST SURROUND SOUND ALBUM
    Live Kisses
    Al Schmitt, surround mix engineer; Tommy LiPuma, surround producer (Paul McCartney)
    Label: Eagle Rock Entertainment

    71. BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, CLASSICAL
    Winter Morning Walks
    David Frost, Brian Losch & Tim Martyn, engineers; Tim Martyn, mastering engineer (Dawn Upshaw, Maria Schneider, Australian Chamber Orchestra & St. Paul Chamber Orchestra)
    Label: ArtistShare

    72. PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, CLASSICAL
    David Frost
    • Andres: Home Stretch (Timo Andres, Andrew Cyr & Metropolis Ensemble) • Angel Heart, A Music Storybook (Matt Haimovitz & Uccello) • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 (Jonathan Biss) • Ben-Haim: Chamber Works (ARC Ensemble) • Celebrating The American Spirit (Judith Clurman & Essential Voices USA) • Elgar: Enigma Variations; Vaughan Williams: The Wasps; Greensleeves (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony) • Guilty Pleasures (Renée Fleming, Sebastian Lang-Lessing & Philharmonia Orchestra) • Verdi: Otello (Riccardo Muti, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Krassimira Stoyanova, Carlo Guelfi, Chicago Symphony Chorus & Chicago Symphony Orchestra) • Winter Morning Walks (Dawn Upshaw, Maria Schneider, Australian Chamber Orchestra & St. Paul Chamber Orchestra)

    73. BEST ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE
    Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4
    Osmo Vänskä, conductor (Minnesota Orchestra)
    Label: BIS Records

    74. BEST OPERA RECORDING
    Adès: The Tempest
    Thomas Adès, conductor; Simon Keenlyside, Isabel Leonard, Audrey Luna & Alan Oke; Jay David Saks, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
    Label: Deutsche Grammophon

    75. BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE
    Pärt: Adam's Lament
    Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor (Tui Hirv & Rainer Vilu; Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir; Sinfonietta Riga & Tallinn Chamber Orchestra; Latvian Radio Choir & Vox Clamantis)
    Label: ECM New Series

    76. BEST CHAMBER MUSIC/SMALL ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
    Roomful Of Teeth
    Brad Wells & Roomful Of Teeth
    Label: New Amsterdam Records

    77. BEST CLASSICAL INSTRUMENTAL SOLO
    Corigliano: Conjurer – Concerto For Percussionist & String Orchestra
    Evelyn Glennie; David Alan Miller, conductor (Albany Symphony)
    Track from: Corigliano: Conjurer; Vocalise
    Label: Naxos

    78. BEST CLASSICAL VOCAL SOLO
    Winter Morning Walks
    Dawn Upshaw (Maria Schneider; Jay Anderson, Frank Kimbrough & Scott Robinson; Australian Chamber Orchestra & St. Paul Chamber Orchestra)
    Label: ArtistShare

    79. BEST CLASSICAL COMPENDIUM
    Hindemith: Violinkonzert; Symphonic Metamorphosis; Konzertmusik
    Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
    Label: Ondine

    80. BEST CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL COMPOSITION
    Schneider, Maria: Winter Morning Walks
    Maria Schneider, composer (Dawn Upshaw, Jay Anderson, Frank Kimbrough, Scott Robinson & Australian Chamber Orchestra)
    Track from: Winter Morning Walks
    Label: ArtistShare

    81. BEST MUSIC VIDEO
    Suit & Tie
    Justin Timberlake Featuring Jay Z
    David Fincher, video director; Timory King, video producer
    Label: RCA Records

    82. BEST MUSIC FILM
    Live Kisses
    Paul McCartney
    Jonas Åkerlund, video director; Violaine Etienne, Aron Levine & Scott Rodger, video producers
    Label: Eagle Rock Entertainment

Believe me, you don't want to know about anything before #41. I like Guy Clark, but I'd like to see something more traditional honored.
-Joe-


27 Jan 14 - 07:37 AM (#3595842)
Subject: RE: 2014 Grammy Awards
From: gnu

"Believe me, you don't want to know about anything before #41."

Oh NOW you tell me! >;-)


27 Jan 14 - 08:33 AM (#3595855)
Subject: RE: 2014 Grammy Awards
From: Phil Cooper

I guess I missed this awards show, too.


27 Jan 14 - 11:47 AM (#3595890)
Subject: RE: 2014 Grammy Awards
From: Elmore

Sorry Pete Seeger was bested in the Best Spoken Word Album category by some young upstart named Stephen Colbert.


27 Jan 14 - 01:54 PM (#3595920)
Subject: RE: 2014 Grammy Awards
From: voyager

I really enjoyed the TV program (mostly with the sound off). The couple of bits I caught were quite unspectacular (all flash, where's
the music)? They should consider pressing a CD from the evening entitled - 'The Sound of Drek'.

BTW - Glad to see Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell 'Old Yellow Moon' come up a winner.

voyager