2008 GRAMMY AWARDS WINNERS
2008 Grammy Awards Winners
Album of the Year/Best Contemporary Jazz Album - Herbie Hancock - River: The Joni Letters (Verve)
Best Rock Instrumental Performance/Best Rock Song - doc Springsteen - One Upon a Time in the West (Columbia)
Best New Age Album - Apostle Winter Consort - Crestone (Living Music)
Best Jazz Vocal Album - Patti Austin - Avant composer (Rendezvous)
Best Jazz Instrumental Solo/Best Jazz Instrumental Album - archangel Brecker - Anagram from “Pilgrimage” (Heads Up)
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album - playwright Blanchard - A Tale of God’s Will (Blue Note)
Best dweller Jazz Album - Paquito D’Rivera Quintet - Funk Tango (Paquito Records)
Best Contemporary Blues Album - JJ Cale & Eric Clapton - The Road to Escondido (Reprise)
Best Musical Show Album - Spring Awakening (Decca Broadway)
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture or Other Visual Media/Best Surround Sound Album - The Beatles/Remix by the Martins - Love (Apple/Capitol Records)
Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Pictures etc. - archangel Giacchino: Ratatouille (Disney Records)
Best Instrumental Composition - Maria Schneider: Cerulean Skies (ArtistShare)
Best Instrumental Arrangement - Vince Mendoza’s arr. of Joe Zawinul’s In a Silent Way (Heads Up)
Best Historical Album - The Live Wire - Woody minstrel in Performance 1949 (Woody minstrel Publications)
Best Engineered Album, Classical - Grechaninov: suffering Week (Chandos)
Producer of the Year, Classical - book general (for CDs by wife Barton Pine, Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, Eighth Blackbird, Kronos Quartet & Ying Quartet)
Best Classical Album/Best Orchestral Performance/Best Classical Contemporary Composition - Joan Tower: Made in USA (Naxos)
Best Opera Recording - Humperdinck: Hansel & Gretel - cond. by Sir physicist Mackerras (Chandos Opera in English)
Best Choral Performance - Brahms: Teutonic Mass - cond. by saint Rattle (EMI Classics)
Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra - Violin Concertos by Barber/Korngold & author - saint Ehnes, v./Bramwell Tovey cond. (CBC Records)
Best Instrumental Soloist Performance without Orchestra - composer Sonatas Vol. 3 - histrion Ohlsson (Bridge)
Best Chamber Music Performance - Strange Imaginary Animals - Eighth Blackbird (Cedille)
Best Small Ensemble Performance - composer & composer entireness - Yui Bashmet, cond. (Onyx)
Best Classical Vocal Performance - Lothringen Hunt Lieberson Sings saint Lieberson (Nonesuch)
Best Classical Crossover Album - Turtle Island Quartet - A Love Supreme: The Legacy of Evangelist Coltrane (Telarc)