Berklee Alumni and Faculty Earn 25 Grammy Award Nominations
Nominees include John Mayer, Steve Vai, Howard Shore, Diana Krall, Juan Luis Guerra, and Quincy Jones.
December 10, 2007
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences nominated twenty Berklee alumni and three faculty members for a total of 25 Grammy Awards. The nominees were recognized for their outstanding contributions in a variety of categories, including pop, rock, hip-hop, jazz, Latin jazz, new age, songwriting, arranging, and film scoring. To date, Berklee alumni have won a total of 152 Grammy Awards. The 50th Annual Grammy Awards will be held on Sunday, February 10, 2008, at Staples Center in Los Angeles, and broadcast on CBS at 8:00 p.m. (ET/PT).
Crossing generational lines, two alumni spanning 50 years of the college's history—Quincy Jones '51, and Andrew Dawson '01—were nominated for their work on the blockbuster Kanye West album Graduation. Other nominees include John Mayer '98 for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance; Diana Krall '83 for Album of the Year; Steve Vai '79 for Best Rock Instrumental Performance; Juan Luis Guerra '83 for Best Tropical Latin Album; Howard Shore '68 for Best Score Soundtrack Album, for The Departed; and Paul Winter Consort member Eugene Friesen, associate professor of strings, for New Age Album of the Year.
Mark Walker, associate professor of percussion, earned nominations in the categories Best Instrumental Composition, and Best Latin Jazz Album, as a member of the Paquito D'Rivera Quintet. Walker's bandmates, Diego Urcola '90, Pernell Saturnino '95, Alon Yavnai '95, and Oscar Stagnaro, professor of bass, were also nominated. Other jazz and Latin jazz nominees include Jeff Lorber '71 for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, Tierney Sutton '87 for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Joe Lovano '72 (Gary Burton Jazz Chair at Berklee), for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, and Bobby Sanabria '79 for Best Latin Jazz Album.
A complete list of Berklee alumni nominees for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards follows.
Category 2 – Album Of The Year
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John Mayer |
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Category 6 – Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
Category 19 – Best Rock Instrumental Performance
Category 34 – Best Rap Song
Category 44 – Best New Age Album
Category 45 – Best Contemporary Jazz Album
Category 46 – Best Jazz Vocal Album
Category 48 – Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group
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Oscar Stagnaro |
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Category 50 – Best Latin Jazz Album
Category 59 – Best Latin Rock Or Alternative Album
Category 61 – Best Tropical Latin Album
Category 82 – Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
- Across The Universe
(Various Artists)
T Bone Burnett, Elliot Goldenthal & Teese Gohl '81, producers [Interscope Records]
Category 83 – Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
Category 85 – Best Instrumental Composition
Category 86 – Best Instrumental Arrangement
Category 92 – Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Category 108 – Best Classical Crossover Album
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