BLAUKLANG by VINCE MENDOZA nominated

for the GRAMMY AWARDS

“Moody magnum opus from arranger to the stars” MOJO

Yesterday the nominations for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards were announced and we are happy to let you know that one ACT recording was amongst them:
The album Blauklang (ACT 9465-2) by Vince Mendoza was nominated in the category ’Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album’.

The Grammy is awarded annually to artists, composers and arrangers in 110 categories by the National Academy of Recordings Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. The award ceremony will take place on February 8th, 2009.

Four-time Grammy award winner Mendoza is one of the most sought-after arrangers and a giant in both jazz and pop. Mixtures of tonal colours and coloured tones that overlay a variety of harmonic and melodic voices shape a large part of his compositions. Mendoza rules over this sovereign play of light and shadow, brightness and darkness. On his new masterpiece Blauklang the tonal colours and coloured tones were realised by an ensemble of top-class musicians that were brought together exclusively for this occasion: Nguyên Lê, Markus Stockhausen, Claudio Puntin, Steffen Schorn, Frank Sackenheim, Arkady Shilkloper, Jon Sass, Lars Danielsson, Ulla van Daelen, Peter Erskine, Christopher Dell and the String Quartet RED URG 4.

Blauklang is the final part of an ACT trilogy in collaboration with Vince Mendoza and the WDR that began in 1992 with the Grammy-nominated Jazzpaña (ACT’s very first production, ACT 9212-2) and continued with Sketches (ACT 9215-2).

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