The Recording Academy has announced the list of nominated recordings and artists that will form the voting pool for the 45th GRAMMY Awards, to be presented on Feb. 23 2003 at Madison Square Gardens in New York.
The complete list of nominations in more than 100 categories is available online in text format and in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
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From an audio-quality perspective, most of the categories and nominations are more or less meaningless. For one thing, the majority of the categories deal with “best performance” (emphasis on the artists) rather than “best recording.” For another, the nominations and voting in the major genre categories boil down to a music industry popularity (and political muscle) contest.
But in some categories, production and engineering values are a major consideration, and in a few cases the nominations and awards are even decided by specialized groups of technically-knowledgeable voters.
Here is our selective list of nominations in categories that are of particular interest from the audio production point of view.
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Ask a Woman Who Knows (Natalie Cole)
Elliot Scheiner, Al Schmitt, engineers
[Verve Records]
C’mon, C’mon (Sheryl Crow)
Trina Shoemaker, Eric Tew, engineers
[A&M Records]
Come Away With Me (Norah Jones)
Arif Mardin, Jay Newland, Husky Huskolds, engineers
[Blue Note Records]
Home (Dixie Chicks)
Gary Paczosa, engineer
[Open Wide/Monument/Columbia Records]
Morning View (Incubus)
Mike Einzinger, Dave Holdredge, Scott Litt and Rick Will, engineers
[Epic/Immortal Records]
Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical
He Loves Me (Jill Scott)
Your Friends From San Francisco, remixers
[Hidden Beach Recordings]
Hella Good (No Doubt)
Roger Sanchez, remixer
[Interscope Records]
Lost Love (Rinocerose)
Felix Da Housecat, remixer
[V2 Records]
What About Us (Brandy)
Steve Silk Hurley, remixer
[Silk Entertainment]
Work It Out (Beyonce Knowles)
Maurice Joshua, remixer
[Columbia Records]
Best Dance Recording
Gotta Get Thru This (Daniel Bedingfield)
Daniel Bedingfield, Al Stone, producers; John Davis, mixer
[Island/Def Jam]
Days Go By (Dirty Vegas)
Ben Harris, Paul Harris, Steve Smith, producers
[Capitol Records]
Superstylin’ (Groove Armada)
Groove Armada, producers; Dave Pemberton, mixer
[Jive Electro Records]
Love At First Sight (Kylie Minogue)
Julian Gallagher, Richard “Biff” Stannard, producers; Ash Howes, mixer
[Capitol Records]
Hella Good (No Doubt)
Nellee Hooper, No Doubt, producers; Mark “Spike” Stent, mixer
[Interscope Records]
Best Engineered Album, Classical
Chadwick: Orchestral Works (Kenneth Schermerhorn)
John Newton, engineer
[Naxos of America]
Orff: Carmina Burana (Donald Runnicles, Norman Mackenzie)
Jack Renner, engineer
[Telarc Digital]
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Vocalise etc. (Eiji Oue)
Keith O. Johnson, engineer
[Reference Recordings]
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 (Mstislav Rostropovich)
Tony Faulkner, engineer
[LSO Live]
Vaughn Williams: Symphony No. 1 – A Sea Symphony (Robert Spano, Norman Mackenzie)
Michael Bishop, engineer
[Telarc Digital]
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Dr. Dre, for:
– Business (Eminem) (track)
– Holla (Busta Rhymes) (track)
– Jimmy (Truth Hurts) (track)
– Lookin’ At You (Warren G, featuring Toi) (track)
– My Dad’s Gone Crazy (Eminem) (track)
– The Wash (Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg) (track)
Nellee Hooper, for:
– Black Mona Lisa (Lamya) (track)
– Detective (No Doubt) (track)
– Empires (Lamya) (track)
– Hella Good (No Doubt) (track)
– Perfect Girl (Lamya) (track)
– Rock Steady (No Doubt) (track)
– Running (No Doubt) (track)
Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, for:
– Here I Am (Bryan Adams) (track)
– I’m Gonna Be Ready (Yolanda Adams) (track)
– Never Give Up (Yolanda Adams) (track)
– Oh Well (Boyz II Men) (track)
– Through The Rain (Mariah Carey) (single)
– Up & Down (In & Out) (Deborah Cox) (single)
Arif Mardin, for:
– Come Away With Me (Norah Jones) (album)
Rick Rubin, for:
– American IV: The Man Comes Around (Johnny Cash) (album)
– By The Way (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (track)
– Give My Love To Rose (Johnny Cash) (track)
– Hurt (Johnny Cash) (track)
– Personal Jesus (Johnny Cash) (track)
– Tear (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (track)
– The Zephyr Song (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (track)
Producer of the Year, Classical
Andrew Cornall, for:
– Camilo: Concerto for Piano and Orch., Caribe, etc. (Michel Camilo)
– Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”, Totenfeier (Riccardo Chailly)
– Moussorgsky: Pictures At An Exibition, Night On Bare Mountain, etc. (Valery Gergiev)
– Rossini Arias: Semiramide, Otello, Zelmira, etc. (Juan Diego Flórez)
Manfred Eicher, for:
– Berio: Voci (Folk Songs II); Sicilian Folk Music; Naturale, etc. (Kim Kashkashian)
– Der Bote (C. P. E. Bach, Cage, Liszt, Etc.) (Alexei Lubimov)
– Karaindrou: Trojan Women (Antonis Kontogeorgiou)
– Pärt: Orient and Occident (Tõnu Kaljuste)
– Silvestrov: Sonata for Violoncello and Piano, etc.) (Valentin Silvestrov, A. Lechner, S. Avenhaus, Rosamunde Quartet, M. Deubner, S. Fordham)
James Mallinson, for:
– Elgar: Symphony No. 1 (Sir Colin Davis)
– Elgar: Symphony No. 3 (Sir Colin Davis)
– Mozart’s Circle – The Beneficent Dervish; The Impresario (Martin Pearlman, C. Sieden, S. Baker, Various)
– Music Of Max Reger – Reger & Romanticism (Leon Botstein)
– Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 (Mstislav Rostropovich)
Robert Woods, for:
– A Celtic Spectacular: Celtic Dream, Cry of the Celts, etc. (Erich Kunzel, The Chieftains, Sir James Galway, John McDermott)
– LAGQ Latin: Fragile, Hasta Alicia Baila, La Trampa, etc. (Los Angeles Guitar Quartet)
– Scary Music: Ghostbusters, Monster Mash, Thriller, etc. (Erich Kunzel)
– Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 (Paavo Järvi)
– The Sound Of Glory – Great Hymns of Faith and Inspiration (Craig Jessop)
Robina G. Young, for:
– Bach: 7 Harpsichord Concertos (Richard Egarr)
– Brahms: The Sonatas for Violin & Piano (Pierre Amoyal, Frederic Chiu)
– Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas (Andrew Manze, Richard Egarr)
– La Belle Marie – Songs to the Virgin from 13th-century France (Anonymous 4)
– Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 2 (Eroica Quartet)
Record of the Year
A Thousand Miles (Vanessa Carlton) (track)
Ron Fair, producer; Tal Herzberg, Jack Joseph Puig and Michael C. Ross, engineer/mixers
[A&M Records]
Without Me (Eminem) (track)
Jeff Bass and Eminem, producers; Steve King, engineer/mixer
[Aftermath/Interscope Records]
Don’t Know Why (Norah Jones) (track)
Norah Jones, Arif Mardin and Jay Newland, producers; Mardin and Newland, engineer/mixers
[Blue Note Records]
Dilemma (Nelly, featuring Kelly Rowland) (track)
Bam and Ryan Bowser, producers; Brian Garten, engineer/mixer
[Universal Records]
How You Remind Me (Nickelback) (track)
Nickelback and Rick Parashar, producers; Joey Moi and Randy Staub, engineer/mixers
[Roadrunner Records]
Album of the Year
Home (Dixie Chicks)
Dixie Chicks and Lloyd Maines, producers; Gary Paczosa, engineer/mixer; Robert Hadley and Doug Sax, mastering
[Open Wide/Monument/Columbia Records]
The Eminem Show (Eminem)
Jeff Bass, Dr. Dre, Eminem and Denaun Porter, producers; Mauricio Iragorri and Steve King, engineer/mixers; Brian Gardner, mastering
[Aftermath/Interscope Records]
Come Away with Me (Norah Jones)
Norah Jones, Arif Mardin, Craig Street and Jay Newland, producers; Mardin, Newland and Husky Huskolds, engineer/mixers; Ted Jensen, mastering
[Blue Note Records]
Nellyville (Nelly)
Jason Epperson, Just Blaze, The Neptunes, The Trackboyz, Wally Yaghnam, producers; Steve Eigner, Brian Garten, Russ Giraud, Gimel Keaton, Greg Morgenstein, Matt Still and Rich Travali, engineer/mixers; Herb Powers, mastering
[Universal Records]
The Rising (Bruce Springsteen)
Brendan O’Brien, producer, Nick Didia and O’Brien, engineer/mixers; Bob Ludwig, mastering
[Columbia Records Group]
Best Classical Album
Beethoven: String Quartets (Takacs Quartet)
Andrew Keener, producer
[Decca Records]
Bel Canto: Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti et al. (Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Patrick Summers, conductor, Renée Fleming, soprano)
Erik Smith, producer
[Decca Records]
Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor)
Andreas Neubronner, producer
[SFS Media]
Pärt: Orient and Occident (Swedish Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor)
Manfred Eicher, producer
[ECM New Series]
Vaughn Williams: Symphony No. 1 – A Sea Symphony (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano, conductor)
Thomas C. Moore, producer
[Telarc Digital]
Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture
A Beautiful Mind (James Horner)
[Decca Records]
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (John Williams)
[Warner Sunset Records]
The Lord Of The Rings – The Fellowship Of The Ring (Howard Shore)
[Reprise Records]
Monsters, Inc. (Randy Newman)
[Walt Disney Records]
Spider-Man (Danny Elfman)
[Sony Music Soundtrax/Columbia Records]
Best Historical Album
Artie Shaw: Self Portrait
Orrin Keepnews, compilation producer; Dennis Ferrante, mastering engineer
[Bluebird]
The Complete OKeh and Brunswick Bix Beiderbecke, Frank Trumbauer And Jack Teagarden Sessions (1924-36)
Scott Wenzel, compilation producer; Doug Pomeroy, mastering engineer
[Mosaic Records]
Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection
Rick Harris, David Nolan, compilation producers; Leslie Mona-Mathus, mastering engineer [Caedmon Records]
The Genius of the Electric Guitar (Charlie Christian)
Michael Brooks, Michael Cuscuna, compilation producers; Seth Foster, Ken Robertson, Mark Wilder, mastering engineers
[Columbia/Legacy Recordings]
Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues: The Worlds Of Charley Patton
Dean Blackwood, compilation producer; David Glasser, Christopher King, mastering engineers
[Revenant Records]
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
Can You Dig It? The ’70s Soul Experience
Sevie Bates, art director (Various Artists)
[WSM/Rhino Entertainment]
Capitol Records Sixtieth Anniversary 1942-2002
Mary Fagot, Joshua Liberson, George Mimnaugh & Ethan Trask, art directors (Various Artists)
[Capitol Records]
Like Omigod! – The ’80s Pop Culture Box (Totally)
Hugh Brown & Julie Vlasak, art directors (Various Artists)
[Rhino Records]
Screamin’ And Hollerin’ The Blues: The Worlds Of Charley Patton
Susan Archie, art director (Charley Patton)
[Revenant Records]
Ultra-Lounge – Vegas Baby!
Michelle Azzopardi & Andy Engel, art directors (Various Artists)
[Capitol Records]
Best Album Notes
Artie Shaw: Self Portrait
Artie Shaw, album notes writer
[Bluebird]
The Golden Road (1965-1973) (Grateful Dead)
Dennis McNally, album notes writer
[Warner Bros. WSM / Rhino Entertainment]
Screamin’ And Hollerin’ The Blues: The Worlds Of Charley Patton
David Evans, album notes writer
[Revenant Records]
Sinatra In Hollywood (1940-1964) (Frank Sinatra)
Will Friedwald, album notes writer
[Reprise Records/Turner Classic Music]
A State Of Wonder: The Complete Goldberg Variations 1955 & 1981 (Glenn Gould)
Tim Page, album notes writer
[Sony Classical/Legacy Recordings]
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