Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Suicide (from TEARS AND THUNDER) - Antonio Cassone (1996 - Audio)

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Monday, February 15, 2016

WINNERS for The 58th Annual Grammy Awards - Complete List

Congratulations to the winners of The 58th Annual Grammy Awards and Thank YOU to my blog's followers for joining me. Love and Live for Music is the Universal Language.


Here are the winners of The 58th Annual Grammy Awards.



Record Of The Year

• Uptown Funk
     
Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars
      Jeff Bhasker, Bruno Mars & Mark Ronson, producers; Josh Blair, Serban Ghenea, Wayne Gordon, John Hanes, Inaam Haq, Boo Mitchell, Charles Moniz & Mark Ronson, engineers/mixers; Tom Coyne, mastering engineer
      Track from: Uptown Special
      [RCA Records]

Album Of The Year

• 1989
      Taylor Swift
      Jack Antonoff, Nathan Chapman, Imogen Heap, Max Martin, Mattman & Robin, Ali Payami, Shellback, Taylor Swift, Ryan Tedder & Noel Zancanella, producers; Jack Antonoff, Mattias Bylund, Smith Carlson, Nathan Chapman, Serban Ghenea, John Hanes, Imogen Heap, Sam Holland, Michael Ilbert, Brendan Morawski, Laura Sisk & Ryan Tedder, engineers/mixers; Tom Coyne, mastering engineer
      [Big Machine Records]

Song Of The Year.]

• Thinking Out Loud
     
Ed Sheeran & Amy Wadge, songwriters (Ed Sheeran)
      Track from: X
      [Atlantic; Publisher(s): Sony/ATV Music Publishing/BDi Music Limited]

Best New Artist

Meghan Trainor

Best Pop Solo Performance

• Thinking Out Loud
      Ed Sheeran
      Track from: X
      [Atlantic]


Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

• Uptown Funk
      Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars
      Track from: Uptown Special
      [RCA Records]

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

• The Silver Lining: The Songs Of Jerome Kern
     
Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap
      [RPM Records/Columbia Records]

Best Pop Vocal Album

• 1989
      Taylor Swift
      [Big Machine Records]

Best Dance Recording

• Where Are Ü Now
     
Skrillex And Diplo With Justin Bieber
      Sonny Moore & Thomas Pentz, producers; Sonny Moore & Thomas Pentz, mixers
      Track from: Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack Ü
      [Owsla/Mad Decent/Atlantic]

Best Dance/Electronic Album


• Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack Ü
      Skrillex And Diplo
      [Owsla/Mad Decent/Atlantic]

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

• Sylva
      Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest
      Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest
      [Impulse!]

Best Rock Performance

• Don't Wanna Fight
      Alabama Shakes
      [ATO Records]

Best Metal Performance

• Cirice
     
Ghost
      [Loma Vista Recordings]

Best Rock Song

• Don't Wanna Fight
      Alabama Shakes, songwriters (Alabama Shakes)
      [ATO Records; Publisher(s): Alabama Shakes Publishing/Break Mirrors Music]

Best Rock Album

• Drones
     
Muse
      [Warner Bros. Records]

Best Alternative Music Album

• Sound & Color
     
Alabama Shakes
      [ATO Records]

 Best R&B Performance

• Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey)
      The Weeknd
      Track from: Fifty Shades Of Grey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
      [Universal Studios/Republic Records]

Best Traditional R&B Performance

• Little Ghetto Boy
     
Lalah Hathaway
      [Entertainment One/8Th Floor]


Best R&B Song

• Really Love
      D'Angelo & Kendra Foster, songwriters (D'Angelo And The Vanguard)
      Track from: Black Messiah
      [RCA Records; Publisher(s): Ah Choo Music Publishing/12:00 AM Music admin. by Universal Polygram International Publishing, Ear Kandy Music, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.]


Best Urban Contemporary Album

• Beauty Behind The Madness
      The Weeknd
      [Republic]

Best R&B Album

• Black Messiah
      D'Angelo And The Vanguard
      [RCA Records]


Best Rap Performance

• Alright
      Kendrick Lamar
      Track from: To Pimp A Butterfly
      [Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath Records/Interscope Records]


Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

• These Walls
      Kendrick Lamar Featuring Bilal, Anna Wise & Thundercat
      Track from: To Pimp A Butterfly
      [Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath Records/Interscope Records]

Best Rap Song

• Alright
      Kendrick Duckworth, Mark Anthony Spears & Pharrell Williams, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar)
      Track from: To Pimp A Butterfly
      [TDE/Aftermath/Interscope; Publisher(s): WB Music Corp., TDE Music, Hard Working Black Folks Publishing, EMI Music Inc., More Water From Nazareth, Sounwave TDE Productions, SonyATV]

Best Rap Album

• To Pimp A Butterfly
      Kendrick Lamar
      [Aftermath/Interscope]

Best Country Solo Performance

• Traveller
      Chris Stapleton
      Track from: Traveller
      [Mercury Nashville]


Best Country Duo/Group Performance

• Girl Crush
      Little Big Town
      Track from: Pain Killer
      [Capitol Records Nashville]


Best Country Song

• Girl Crush
      Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna & Liz Rose, songwriters (Little Big Town)
      Track from: Pain Killer
      [Capitol Records Nashville; Publisher(s): Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp./Songs Of Crazy Girl Music, Songs of Universal, Inc., Hoodie Songs, HillarodyRathbone Music admin. by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC]

Best Country Album

• Traveller
      Chris Stapleton
      [Mercury Records]

Best New Age Album

• Grace
      Paul Avgerinos
      [Round Sky Music]


Best Improvised Jazz Solo

• Cherokee
      Christian McBride, soloist
      Track from: Live At The Village Vanguard (Christian McBride Trio)
      [Mack Avenue Records]


Best Jazz Vocal Album

• For One To Love
      Cécile McLorin Salvant
      [Mack Avenue Records]

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

• Past Present
      John Scofield
      [Impulse!]

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

• The Thompson Fields
      Maria Schneider Orchestra
      [ArtistShare]


Best Latin Jazz Album
• Made In Brazil
      Eliane Elias
      [Concord Jazz]

Best Gospel Performance/Song

• Wanna Be Happy?
      Kirk Franklin
      Kirk Franklin; Kirk Franklin, songwriter
      [RCA Records/Fo Yo Soul Recordings; Publisher(s): Aunt Gertrude Music Publishing admin. by Universal Music-Brentwood Benson Songs and Irving Music, Inc. admin. by Universal Music Publishing]

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

• Holy Spirit
      Francesca Battistelli
      Francesca Battistelli
      Track from: If We're Honest (Deluxe Edition)
      [Fervent/Curb/Word]

Best Gospel Album

• Covered: Alive In Asia [Live] (Deluxe)
      Israel & Newbreed
      [RGM Newbreed/RCA Inspiration]

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album


• This Is Not A Test
      Tobymac
      [ForeFront Records]

Best Roots Gospel Album
• Still Rockin' My Soul
     
The Fairfield Four
      The Fairfield Four
      [Fairfield Four Records]

Best Latin Pop Album

• A Quien Quiera Escuchar  (Deluxe Edition)
     
Ricky Martin
      [Sony Music Latin]

Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album (TIE)

    • Hasta La Raíz
          
Natalia Lafourcade
           [Sony Music Latin]

·         Dale

             Pitbull

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)


• Realidades - Deluxe Edition
      Los Tigres Del Norte
      [Fonovisa]


Best Tropical Latin Album

• Son De Panamá
      Rubén Blades With Roberto Delgado & Orchestra
      [Ruben Blades Productions]

Best American Roots Performance

• See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
      Mavis Staples
      Mavis Staples
      Track from: Your Good Fortune
      [Anti]

Best American Roots Song


• 24 Frames
      Jason Isbell
      Jason Isbell, songwriter (Jason Isbell)
      Track from: Something More Than Free
      [Southeastern Records; Publisher(s): Songs Of Emchant]

Best Americana Album

• Something More Than Free
      Jason Isbell
      [Southeastern Records]


Best Bluegrass Album

• The Muscle Shoals Recordings
      The Steeldrivers
      [Rounder]

Best Blues Album

• Born To Play Guitar
      Buddy Guy
      [RCA Records/Silvertone Records]

Best Folk Album]

• Béla Fleck And Abigail Washburn
      Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn
      [Rounder]

Best Regional Roots Music Album


• Go Go Juice
      Jon Cleary
      [FHQ Records]

Best Reggae Album

• Strictly Roots
      Morgan Heritage
      [CTBC Music Group]

Best World Music Album

• Sings
      Angelique Kidjo
      [429 Records]

Best Children's Album


• Home
      Tim Kubart
      [Tim And The Space Cadets]

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling)

• A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
      Jimmy Carter
      [Simon & Schuster Audio]

Best Comedy Album

• Live At Madison Square Garden
      Louis C.K.
      [Comedy Dynamics]

Best Musical Theater Album


• Hamilton
      Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Christopher Jackson, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos & Phillipa Soo, principal soloists; Alex Lacamoire, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bill Sherman, Ahmir Thompson & Tarik Trotter, producers; Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer & lyricist (Original Broadway Cast)
      [Atlantic]

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media

• Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me
      (Various Artists)
      [Big Machine Records]

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media


• Birdman
      Antonio Sanchez, composer
      [Milan Records]

Best Song Written For Visual Media


• Glory
      Lonnie Lynn, Che Smith & John Stephens, songwriters (Common & John Legend)
      Track from: Selma
      [Def Jam/ARTium Records; Publisher(s): Paramount Pictures/Pathé Productions Limited]


Best Instrumental Composition


• The Afro Latin Jazz Suite
      Arturo O'Farrill, composer (Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Featuring Rudresh Mahanthappa)
      Track from: Cuba: The Conversation Continues
      [Motema Music]

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

• Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy
      Ben Bram, Mitch Grassi, Scott Hoying, Avi Kaplan, Kirstin Maldonado & Kevin Olusola, arrangers (Pentatonix)
      Track from: That's Christmas To Me
      [RCA Records]

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

• Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)
      Maria Schneider, arranger (David Bowie)
      Track from: Nothing Has Changed
      [Legacy/Columbia]

Best Recording Package


• Still The King: Celebrating The Music Of Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys
      Sarah Dodds, Shauna Dodds & Dick Reeves, art directors (Asleep At The Wheel)
      [Bismeaux Records]

Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package


• The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume Two (1928-32)
      Susan Archie, Dean Blackwood & Jack White, art directors (Various Artists)
      [Third Man Records / Revenant Records]

Best Album Notes

• Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced
      Joni Mitchell, album notes writer (Joni Mitchell)
      [Rhino]

Best Historical Album


• The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11
      Steve Berkowitz, Jan Haust & Jeff Rosen, compilation producers; Peter J. Moore, mastering engineer (Bob Dylan And The Band)
      [Columbia/Legacy]

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical


• Sound & Color
      Shawn Everett, engineer; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (Alabama Shakes)
      [ATO Records]

Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical


• Jeff Bhasker
     
      • Ain't Gonna Drown (Elle King) (T)
      • Burning Doves (Mikky Ekko) (T)
      • Burning House (Cam) (T)
      • Grand Romantic (Nate Ruess) (A)
      • Last Damn Night (Elle King) (T)
      • Never Let You Down (Woodkid Featuring Lykke Li) (T)
      • Runaway Train (Cam) (T)
      • Uptown Special (Mark Ronson) (A)


Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical

• Uptown Funk (Dave Audé Remix)
      Dave Audé, remixer (Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars)
      [RCA Records]

Best Surround Sound Album

• Amused To Death
      James Guthrie, surround mix engineer; James Guthrie & Joel Plante, surround mastering engineers; James Guthrie, surround producer (Roger Waters)
      [Columbia/Legacy]

Best Engineered Album, Classical


• Ask Your Mama
      Leslie Ann Jones, John Kilgore, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum & Justin Merrill, engineers; Patricia Sullivan, mastering engineer (George Manahan & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra)
      [Avie Records]

Producer Of The Year, Classical

• Judith Sherman
     
      • Ask Your Mama (George Manahan & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra)
      • Fields: Double Cluster; Space Sciences (Jan Kučera, Gloria Chuang & Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra)
      • Liaisons - Re-Imagining Sondheim From The Piano (Anthony de Mare)
      • Montage - Great Film Composers & The Piano (Gloria Cheng)
      • Multitude, Solitude (Momenta Quartet)
      • Of Color Braided All Desire - Music Of Eric Moe (Christine Brandes, Brentano String Quartet, Dominic Donato, Jessica Meyer, Karen Ouzounian, Manhattan String Quartet & Talujon)
      • Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (Ursula Oppens)
      • Sirota: Parting The Veil - Works For Violin & Piano (David Friend, Hyeyung Julie Yoon, Laurie Carney & Soyeon Kate Lee)
      • Turina: Chamber Music For Strings & Piano (Lincoln Trio)

Best Orchestral Performance

• Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow - Symphony No. 10
      Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
      [Deutsche Grammophon]

Best Opera Recording


• Ravel: L'Enfant Et Les Sortilèges; Shéhérazade
      Seiji Ozawa, conductor; Isabel Leonard; Dominic Fyfe, producer (Saito Kinen Orchestra; SKF Matsumoto Chorus & SKF Matsumoto Children's Chorus)
      [Decca]

Best Choral Performance

• Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil
      Charles Bruffy, conductor (Paul Davidson, Frank Fleschner, Toby Vaughn Kidd, Bryan Pinkall, Julia Scozzafava, Bryan Taylor & Joseph Warner; Kansas City Chorale & Phoenix Chorale)
      [Chandos]

Best Classical Instrumental Solo


• Dutilleux: Violin Concerto, L'Arbre Des Songes
      Augustin Hadelich; Ludovic Morlot, conductor (Seattle Symphony)
      Track from: Dutilleux: Métaboles; L'Arbre Des Songes; Symphony No. 2, 'Le Double'
      [Seattle Symphony Media]

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

• Joyce & Tony - Live From Wigmore Hall
      Joyce DiDonato; Antonio Pappano, accompanist
      [Erato]

Best Classical Compendium

• Paulus: Three Places Of Enlightenment; Veil Of Tears & Grand Concerto
      Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer
      [Naxos]

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

• Paulus: Prayers & Remembrances
      Stephen Paulus, composer (Eric Holtan, True Concord Voices & Orchestra)
      Track from: Paulus: Far In The Heavens
      [Reference Recordings]

Best Music Video


• Bad Blood
      Taylor Swift Featuring Kendrick Lamar
      Joseph Kahn, video director; Ron Morhoff, video producer
      [Big Machine Records]

Best Music Film

• Amy
     Amy Winehouse
      Asif Kapadia, video director; James Gay-Rees, video producer
      [Universal Music Enterprises]



THE 58TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS will be telecast live on CBS, Monday February 15, 2016 at 8PM/EST – PM/PST.  For everything GRAMMY, including a Full List of this year’s Nominees visit their website at http://www.grammy.com/

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Kendrick Lamar's Grammy Performance: Poetic - Intense - Timely

Like something out of your best of the best poetry slam competitions, Kendrick Lamar's performance at The 58th Annual Grammy Awards was SUPERB. Bravo and Congratulations to him for his five Grammy wins (thus far) tonight and, most of all, for maybe opening some eyes and shedding more light on societal issues that plague our turbulent times.



THE 58TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS will be telecast live on CBS, Monday February 15, 2016 at 8PM/EST – PM/PST.  For everything GRAMMY, including a Full List of this year’s Nominees visit their website at http://www.grammy.com/

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HAMILTON - Hit Broadway Musical Rocks the Grammys

In an awesome and historical performance, the brilliant Lin-Manuel Miranda and company from the hit, Broadway musical Hamilton just rocked the Grammy stage from the Richard Rodgers Theater and the went on to win Best Musical Theater Album to boot.

BRAVO!


THE 58TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS will be telecast live on CBS, Monday February 15, 2016 at 8PM/EST – PM/PST.  For everything GRAMMY, including a Full List of this year’s Nominees visit their website at http://www.grammy.com/
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Pre-Telecast Grammy Winners Offer Up Huge Rewards for Alabama Shakes - Kendrick Lamar - TheWeeknd - Taylor Swift - Little Big Town

Here is a list of the pre-telecast winners for The 58th Annual Grammy Awards.

NOTE: Categories with correlating photo indicates that I either picked and or predicted the winner - GO ME! LOL.  None of the photos are of mine. Credit to the photogs and designers.  Merely used for reporting purposes.

Congratulations to the Winners and Nominees.




Best Pop Solo Performance


• Thinking Out Loud
      Ed Sheeran
      Track from: X
      [Atlantic]


Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
• Uptown Funk
      Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars
      Track from: Uptown Special
      [RCA Records]

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

• The Silver Lining: The Songs Of Jerome Kern
     
Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap
      [RPM Records/Columbia Records]

Best Pop Vocal Album

• 1989
      Taylor Swift
      [Big Machine Records]

Best Dance Recording




• Where Are Ü Now
     
Skrillex And Diplo With Justin Bieber
      Sonny Moore & Thomas Pentz, producers; Sonny Moore & Thomas Pentz, mixers
      Track from: Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack Ü
      [Owsla/Mad Decent/Atlantic]

Best Dance/Electronic Album




• Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack Ü
      Skrillex And Diplo
      [Owsla/Mad Decent/Atlantic]

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

• Sylva
      Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest
      Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest
      [Impulse!]

Best Metal Performance

• Cirice
     
Ghost
      [Loma Vista Recordings]

Best Rock Song




• Don't Wanna Fight
      Alabama Shakes, songwriters (Alabama Shakes)
      [ATO Records; Publisher(s): Alabama Shakes Publishing/Break Mirrors Music]

Best Rock Album

• Drones
     
Muse
      [Warner Bros. Records]

Best Alternative Music Album

• Sound & Color
     
Alabama Shakes
      [ATO Records]

 Best R&B Performance





• Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey)
      The Weeknd
      Track from: Fifty Shades Of Grey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
      [Universal Studios/Republic Records]

Best Traditional R&B Performance


• Little Ghetto Boy
     
Lalah Hathaway
      [Entertainment One/8Th Floor]


Best R&B Song
• Really Love
      D'Angelo & Kendra Foster, songwriters (D'Angelo And The Vanguard)
      Track from: Black Messiah
      [RCA Records; Publisher(s): Ah Choo Music Publishing/12:00 AM Music admin. by Universal Polygram International Publishing, Ear Kandy Music, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.]


Best Urban Contemporary Album

• Beauty Behind The Madness
      The Weeknd
      [Republic]

Best R&B Album


• Black Messiah
      D'Angelo And The Vanguard
      [RCA Records]


Best Rap Performance

• Alright
      Kendrick Lamar
      Track from: To Pimp A Butterfly
      [Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath Records/Interscope Records]


Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
• These Walls
      Kendrick Lamar Featuring Bilal, Anna Wise & Thundercat
      Track from: To Pimp A Butterfly
      [Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath Records/Interscope Records]

Best Rap Song

• Alright
      Kendrick Duckworth, Mark Anthony Spears & Pharrell Williams, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar)
      Track from: To Pimp A Butterfly
      [TDE/Aftermath/Interscope; Publisher(s): WB Music Corp., TDE Music, Hard Working Black Folks Publishing, EMI Music Inc., More Water From Nazareth, Sounwave TDE Productions, SonyATV]

Best Country Solo Performance


• Traveller
      Chris Stapleton
      Track from: Traveller
      [Mercury Nashville]


Best Country Duo/Group Performance


• Girl Crush
      Little Big Town
      Track from: Pain Killer
      [Capitol Records Nashville]


Best Country Song

• Girl Crush
      Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna & Liz Rose, songwriters (Little Big Town)
      Track from: Pain Killer
      [Capitol Records Nashville; Publisher(s): Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp./Songs Of Crazy Girl Music, Songs of Universal, Inc., Hoodie Songs, HillarodyRathbone Music admin. by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC]

Best New Age Album
• Grace
      Paul Avgerinos
      [Round Sky Music]

Best Improvised Jazz Solo

• Cherokee
      Christian McBride, soloist
      Track from: Live At The Village Vanguard (Christian McBride Trio)
      [Mack Avenue Records]

Best Jazz Vocal Album


• For One To Love
      Cécile McLorin Salvant
      [Mack Avenue Records]

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

• Past Present
      John Scofield
      [Impulse!]

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album


• The Thompson Fields
      Maria Schneider Orchestra
      [ArtistShare]


Best Latin Jazz Album

• Made In Brazil
      Eliane Elias
      [Concord Jazz]

Best Gospel Performance/Song
• Wanna Be Happy?
      Kirk Franklin
      Kirk Franklin; Kirk Franklin, songwriter
      [RCA Records/Fo Yo Soul Recordings; Publisher(s): Aunt Gertrude Music Publishing admin. by Universal Music-Brentwood Benson Songs and Irving Music, Inc. admin. by Universal Music Publishing]

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
• Holy Spirit
      Francesca Battistelli
      Francesca Battistelli
      Track from: If We're Honest (Deluxe Edition)
      [Fervent/Curb/Word]

Best Gospel Album


• Covered: Alive In Asia [Live] (Deluxe)
      Israel & Newbreed
      [RGM Newbreed/RCA Inspiration]

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

• This Is Not A Test
      Tobymac
      [ForeFront Records]

Best Roots Gospel Album
• Still Rockin' My Soul
     
The Fairfield Four
      The Fairfield Four
      [Fairfield Four Records]

Best Latin Pop Album

• A Quien Quiera Escuchar  (Deluxe Edition)
     
Ricky Martin
      [Sony Music Latin]

Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album (TIE)


    • Hasta La Raíz
          
Natalia Lafourcade
           [Sony Music Latin]


·         Dale

             Pitbull

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)



• Realidades - Deluxe Edition
      Los Tigres Del Norte
      [Fonovisa]


Best Tropical Latin Album



• Son De Panamá
      Rubén Blades With Roberto Delgado & Orchestra
      [Ruben Blades Productions]

Best American Roots Performance



• See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
      Mavis Staples
      Mavis Staples
      Track from: Your Good Fortune
      [Anti]

Best American Roots Song

• 24 Frames
      Jason Isbell
      Jason Isbell, songwriter (Jason Isbell)
      Track from: Something More Than Free
      [Southeastern Records; Publisher(s): Songs Of Emchant]

Best Americana Album

• Something More Than Free
      Jason Isbell
      [Southeastern Records]


Best Bluegrass Album

• The Muscle Shoals Recordings
      The Steeldrivers
      [Rounder]

Best Blues Album



• Born To Play Guitar
      Buddy Guy
      [RCA Records/Silvertone Records]

Best Folk Album




• Béla Fleck And Abigail Washburn
      Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn
      [Rounder]

Best Regional Roots Music Album


• Go Go Juice
      Jon Cleary
      [FHQ Records]

Best Reggae Album

• Strictly Roots
      Morgan Heritage
      [CTBC Music Group]

Best World Music Album

• Sings
      Angelique Kidjo
      [429 Records]

Best Children's Album

• Home
      Tim Kubart
      [Tim And The Space Cadets]

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling)





• A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
      Jimmy Carter
      [Simon & Schuster Audio]

Best Comedy Album




• Live At Madison Square Garden
      Louis C.K.
      [Comedy Dynamics]

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media

• Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me
      (Various Artists)
      [Big Machine Records]

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media




• Birdman
      Antonio Sanchez, composer
      [Milan Records]

Best Song Written For Visual Media



• Glory
      Lonnie Lynn, Che Smith & John Stephens, songwriters (Common & John Legend)
      Track from: Selma
      [Def Jam/ARTium Records; Publisher(s): Paramount Pictures/Pathé Productions Limited]


Best Instrumental Composition



• The Afro Latin Jazz Suite
      Arturo O'Farrill, composer (Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Featuring Rudresh Mahanthappa)
      Track from: Cuba: The Conversation Continues
      [Motema Music]

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

• Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy
      Ben Bram, Mitch Grassi, Scott Hoying, Avi Kaplan, Kirstin Maldonado & Kevin Olusola, arrangers (Pentatonix)
      Track from: That's Christmas To Me
      [RCA Records]

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals



Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)
      Maria Schneider, arranger (David Bowie)
      Track from: Nothing Has Changed
      [Legacy/Columbia]

Best Recording Package

• Still The King: Celebrating The Music Of Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys
      Sarah Dodds, Shauna Dodds & Dick Reeves, art directors (Asleep At The Wheel)
      [Bismeaux Records]

Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package


• The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume Two (1928-32)
      Susan Archie, Dean Blackwood & Jack White, art directors (Various Artists)
      [Third Man Records / Revenant Records]

Best Album Notes



• Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced
      Joni Mitchell, album notes writer (Joni Mitchell)
      [Rhino]

Best Historical Album



• The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11
      Steve Berkowitz, Jan Haust & Jeff Rosen, compilation producers; Peter J. Moore, mastering engineer (Bob Dylan And The Band)
      [Columbia/Legacy]

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical



• Sound & Color
      Shawn Everett, engineer; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (Alabama Shakes)
      [ATO Records]

Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical

• Jeff Bhasker
     
      • Ain't Gonna Drown (Elle King) (T)
      • Burning Doves (Mikky Ekko) (T)
      • Burning House (Cam) (T)
      • Grand Romantic (Nate Ruess) (A)
      • Last Damn Night (Elle King) (T)
      • Never Let You Down (Woodkid Featuring Lykke Li) (T)
      • Runaway Train (Cam) (T)
      • Uptown Special (Mark Ronson) (A)

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical



• Uptown Funk (Dave Audé Remix)
      Dave Audé, remixer (Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars)
      [RCA Records]

Best Surround Sound Album

• Amused To Death
      James Guthrie, surround mix engineer; James Guthrie & Joel Plante, surround mastering engineers; James Guthrie, surround producer (Roger Waters)
      [Columbia/Legacy]

Best Engineered Album, Classical

• Ask Your Mama
      Leslie Ann Jones, John Kilgore, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum & Justin Merrill, engineers; Patricia Sullivan, mastering engineer (George Manahan & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra)
      [Avie Records]

Producer Of The Year, Classical




• Judith Sherman
     
      • Ask Your Mama (George Manahan & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra)
      • Fields: Double Cluster; Space Sciences (Jan Kučera, Gloria Chuang & Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra)
      • Liaisons - Re-Imagining Sondheim From The Piano (Anthony de Mare)
      • Montage - Great Film Composers & The Piano (Gloria Cheng)
      • Multitude, Solitude (Momenta Quartet)
      • Of Color Braided All Desire - Music Of Eric Moe (Christine Brandes, Brentano String Quartet, Dominic Donato, Jessica Meyer, Karen Ouzounian, Manhattan String Quartet & Talujon)
      • Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (Ursula Oppens)
      • Sirota: Parting The Veil - Works For Violin & Piano (David Friend, Hyeyung Julie Yoon, Laurie Carney & Soyeon Kate Lee)
      • Turina: Chamber Music For Strings & Piano (Lincoln Trio)

Best Orchestral Performance




• Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow - Symphony No. 10
      Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
      [Deutsche Grammophon]

Best Opera Recording


• Ravel: L'Enfant Et Les Sortilèges; Shéhérazade
      Seiji Ozawa, conductor; Isabel Leonard; Dominic Fyfe, producer (Saito Kinen Orchestra; SKF Matsumoto Chorus & SKF Matsumoto Children's Chorus)
      [Decca]

Best Choral Performance


• Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil
      Charles Bruffy, conductor (Paul Davidson, Frank Fleschner, Toby Vaughn Kidd, Bryan Pinkall, Julia Scozzafava, Bryan Taylor & Joseph Warner; Kansas City Chorale & Phoenix Chorale)
      [Chandos]

Best Classical Instrumental Solo



• Dutilleux: Violin Concerto, L'Arbre Des Songes
      Augustin Hadelich; Ludovic Morlot, conductor (Seattle Symphony)
      Track from: Dutilleux: Métaboles; L'Arbre Des Songes; Symphony No. 2, 'Le Double'
      [Seattle Symphony Media]

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

• Joyce & Tony - Live From Wigmore Hall
      Joyce DiDonato; Antonio Pappano, accompanist
      [Erato]

Best Classical Compendium



• Paulus: Three Places Of Enlightenment; Veil Of Tears & Grand Concerto
      Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer
      [Naxos]

Best Contemporary Classical Composition



• Paulus: Prayers & Remembrances
      Stephen Paulus, composer (Eric Holtan, True Concord Voices & Orchestra)
      Track from: Paulus: Far In The Heavens
      [Reference Recordings]

Best Music Video



• Bad Blood
      Taylor Swift Featuring Kendrick Lamar
      Joseph Kahn, video director; Ron Morhoff, video producer
      [Big Machine Records]

Best Music Film

• Amy
     Amy Winehouse
      Asif Kapadia, video director; James Gay-Rees, video producer
      [Universal Music Enterprises]

 


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