2008 Grammy Nominees!!!

[markydefad]

I know. Who really cares anymore?

Well a few of my faves did get some recognition....

All Night Long
Randy Crawford & Joe Sample
Track from: Feeling Good [this is my fave cd of last year!!! no dance--but very classy pop/jazz collaboration]
[PRA Records]

Funk This
Chaka Khan
[Burgundy Records]

Avant Gershwin
Patti Austin
[Rendezvous Entertainment]
Overture/Gershwin Medley
Michael Abene, arranger (Patti Austin)
Track from: Avant Gershwin
[Rendezvous Entertainment]

The Scene Of The Crime
Bettye LaVette
[Anti]

Cool Yule
Bette Midler
[Columbia]




Here' the link for all the nominees:

GRAMMY.com - 50th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominations List

[discokicks]

Originally Posted by markydefad

I know. Who really cares anymore?

Well a few of my faves did get some recognition....

All Night Long
Randy Crawford & Joe Sample
Track from: Feeling Good [this is my fave cd of last year!!! no dance--but very classy pop/jazz collaboration]
[PRA Records]

Thanks Marky....definitely will check this out. Randy's cover a few years ago of Give Me The Night is still tops for me.

Speaking of classy jazz, I'm wondering if you bought Deborah Cox's tribute to Dinah Washington this year....that would be my pick for favourite cd of the year.

[markydefad]

hey dk,

This is the LP...really love it.

Feeling Good
Randy Crawford/Joe Sample



Artist
Randy Crawford/Joe Sample
Album

Feeling Good
Rating

Release Date
Aug 21, 2006
Label
Universal


AMG Album ID
Review by Richard S. Ginell

After a quarter of a century in the Warner Bros. camp and five years on the recording sidelines, Randy Crawford drew a circle back to the beginning, reuniting with keyboardist Joe Sample. In turn, the old Crusader put together a genuinely distinguished rhythm section, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Steve Gadd, and called upon Tommy LiPuma to produce the disc. That combination ought to guarantee a certain floor of competence from the get-go — and it's great to report that this disc always rises above it, sometimes considerably above it. By this time, both Crawford and Sample were established veterans — and the music they make here seems to come so easily from within, with only minimal backing and nothing getting in their way. Gadd puts out a propulsive beat on brushes that pushes the title track along just fine — and his work on "See Line Woman" and "Last Night at Danceland" generates something resembling the irresistible Crusaders groove, giving Sample something to trip lightly and soulfully through. Every track seems to change style with a smooth movement of the clutch — the slinky R&B funk of "Lovetown," the gentle Latin beat of "Rio de Janeiro Blue," the pure mainstream piano trio jazz of "But Beautiful," the heavy blues atmosphere of "Tell Me More and More and Then Some," a trip back to the 1960s' Top 40 with "Everybody's Talking" (dig Randy's fervent high note that Harry Nilsson once hit in falsetto). A very gratifying release — considering how tempting it would have been to crank this out on autopilot.


1 Feeling Good Bricusse, Newley 4:03 Composed by:Bricusse, Newley
Performed by:Crawford, Joe Sample
2 End of the Line Edmondson, Medley 3:28 Composed by:Edmondson, Medley
Performed by:Crawford, Joe Sample
3 But Beautiful Burke, VanHeusen 3:53 Composed by:Burke, VanHeusen
Performed by:Crawford, Joe Sample
4 Rio de Janiero Blue Haeny, Torrance 5:07 Composed by:Haeny, Torrance
Performed by:Crawford, Joe Sample
5 Lovetown Gabriel 4:27 Composed by:Gabriel
Performed by:Crawford, Joe Sample
6 See Line Woman Bass 4:57 Composed by:Bass
Performed by:Crawford, Joe Sample
7 Tell Me More and More and Then Some Holiday 2:57 Composed by:Holiday
Performed by:Crawford, Joe Sample
8 Everybody's Talking Neil 3:53 Composed by:Neil
Performed by:Crawford, Joe Sample
9 When I Need You Hammond, Sager 4:13 Composed by:Hammond, Sager
Performed by:Crawford, Joe Sample
10 Save Your Love for Me Johnson 3:21 Composed by:Johnson
Performed by:Crawford, Joe Sample
11 Last Night at Danceland Jennings, Sample 4:15 Composed by:Jennings, Sample
Performed by:Crawford, Joe Sample
12 All Night Long Lewis 5:20 Composed by:Lewis
Performed by:Crawford, Joe Sample
13 Mr. Ugly Mapp 3:18 Composed by:Mapp
Performed by:Crawford, Joe Sample