A tip of the hat to my friend Luciana Souza, whose latest CD, Tide, has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category. Ditto to Dan Morgenstern, whose notes for Mosaic’s The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946) were nominated in the Best Album Notes category.
I also commend to your attention two other CDs previously praised in this space that received nominations:
• Quartet Live, by Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Steve Swallow, and Antonio Sanchez, nominated in the Best Jazz Instrumental Album category.
• Intimate Letters, the Emerson String Quartet’s recording of Janacek’s two string quartets, nominated in the Best Chamber Music Performance category.
For friends with empty stockings who already have a copy of Pops, these albums are all eminently giftworthy.
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