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ECM USA is delighted to announce that the nominations for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards include:


Norma Winstone with Glauco Venier and Klaus Gesing: Distances
Best Jazz Vocal Album

Vocalist Winstone’s new ECM release is a lean and beautiful album - her effortless and reedy delivery, utterly without vibrato, is marvelously subtle and transparent. There’s much to treasure on this album by one of the British Jazz scenes most affecting and original vocalists.
Ed Hazell, Jazziz


Trio Mediaeval: Folk Songs
Best Chamber Music Performance

Few vocal ensembles produce quite as beautiful and finely blended a sound as this Norwegian trio...
Allan Kozinn, The New York Times


Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble: Meredith Monk’s Impermanence
Best Small Ensemble Performance

The music conveyed a dramatic arc that encompassed grief and confusion, joy conveyed through rollicking pratfalls and giddy dances, and a quiet ending of stark, powerful eloquence.
Steve Smith, New York Times


Carla Bley And Her Remarkable Big Band: Appearing Nightly
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

She works in many forms, and her scores for big jazz bands are matched only by those of Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus for yearning lyricism, explosive exultation and other expressions of the human condition.
Nat Hentoff, Wall Street Journal

Sehr feine Hörtipps, danke dafür. Ich halte die Produktionen von ECM sowieso für absolut erstklassig. Ein ganz feines Musiklabel.

Gruß
Franz

... manche gehen sogar soweit, und ordern nicht mehr nach Programm, sondern diesem Label!
Ist schon was dran.
Die Scheibe von Norma Winston hatte ich auch in Zweibrücken, und bei den Odelzhauser-Tagen dabei - Resonanz war immer eindeutig.
Die anderen 3 sind für mich sicher auch ein MUSS.
Peter