Composer/Producer/Conductor Ryan Truesdell’s Groundbreaking Project "Centennial: Newly Discovered Works Of Gil Evans" Nominated For Grammy Awards In Three Categories
CD also earned one of France’s highest honors: LES COUPS DE COEUR from the Académie Charles Cros
Renowned composer/producer/conductor Ryan Truesdell
Ryan Truesdell
composer/conductor
’s highly acclaimed CD CENTENNIAL: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans (ArtistShare) has earned three nominations in the 55th annual GRAMMY Awards. CENTENNIAL has been nominated in the categories of Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, Best Instrumental Arrangement (How About You) and Best Arrangement Featuring a Vocalist (Look To the Rainbow featuring Luciana Souza).
“I share these nominations with everyone that made this album a reality - the amazing musicians represented, engineer James Farber, and of course the many ArtistShare participants," Truesdell says. “My heartfelt thanks to each of you!"
CENTENNIAL, which brings to light new music from jazz luminary Gil Evans, has been widely heralded as one of the most important CDs of the year. “Truesdell deserves our gratitude for throwing light on scores unearthed from the archives… One of the jazz releases of the year.” – Clive Davis, Sunday Times of London. “Editor’s Pick: Recording of the Month: 5-stars.” — Tom Conrad, Stereophile. “As majestic and richly textured as you would expect.” – Patrick Jarenwattananon, NPR A Blog Supreme. “Record of the Month” – Jazz Magazine (France). “10 out of 10 stars. If you don’t like this, you don’t like music.” – Liam McManus, PopMatters.
Released by ArtistShare® on May 13, 2012 and recorded by the Grammy award-winning engineer James Farber, CENTENNIAL features thirty-five top musicians, including Lewis Nash
Lewis Nash
b.1958
drums
, Donny McCaslin
Donny McCaslin
b.1966
saxophone
, Steve Wilson
Steve Wilson
b.1961
sax, alto
, Frank Kimbrough
Frank Kimbrough
b.1956
piano
, Greg Gisbert
Greg Gisbert
, and Marshall Gilkes
Marshall Gilkes
b.1978
trombone
performing previously unheard works written by Evans throughout his decades-long career.
Perhaps best known for co-producing Maria Schneider
Maria Schneider
band/orchestra
’s Sky Blue in 2007 and her 2004 GRAMMY Award-winning Concert in the Garden, Truesdell is the first person outside of the Evans family to be granted full access to the musical archives. “I saw thousands of pages of manuscript, and each new box offered up a score or sketch of one of Gil’s pieces that I’ve admired for years.”
Truesdell, one of the foremost Evans scholars, began to grasp the significance of the material he was uncovering when he realized many of the manuscripts were unfamiliar to him. Schneider, former assistant and protégé of Evans’, says of Truesdell’s discovery, “It’s like finding the impossible: imagine you buy an old house and discover a box of lost Beethoven manuscripts in the attic—scores that have never been heard before. That’s exactly what’s happened here. It’s been something that I’ve wished for, for decades now—something that so many of us have wanted and it’s here, it’s incredible; it’s an amazing opportunity to hear this music uncovered.”
GRAMMY winners will be announced on Sunday, February 10.
“One of the most significant releases of 2012.” — JazzTimes
“An extraordinary album.” — Nate Chinen, New York Times
