"new Standarts vol. 1" by Terri Lyne Carrington & "Live At The Detroit Jazz Festival" by Shorter, Carrington, spalding and Genovese Earn Four GRAMMY Nominations

Terri Lyne Carrington’s "new STANDARDS Vol. 1" and "Live At The Detroit Jazz Festival" by Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, esperanza spalding and Leo Genovese, both released on Candid Records, have earned four GRAMMY Nominations between them. Each album was nominated in the Best Jazz Instrumental Album and Best Improvised Jazz Solo categories.

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new STANDARDS Vol. 1 is a groundbreaking album, created to uplift the voices of women composers in jazz, while Live At The Detroit Jazz Festival captures the historic 2017 performance by the multi-generational jazz supergroup of Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, esperanza spalding and Leo Genovese.

new STANDARDS Vol. 1 by Carrington, Kris Davis, Linda May Han Oh, Nicholas Payton, and Matthew Stevens, is nominated for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, and Best Improvised Jazz Solo for guest artist Ambrose Akinmusire’s performance on “Rounds (Live).” The album features 11 recordings of songs from Carrington’s new book, New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets By Women Composers (Hal Leonard/Berklee Press).

The book and album feature a remarkable range of acknowledged titans, young visionaries and unsung heroes in jazz. New Standards was born out of necessity after Carrington was prompted to search for women composers in the infamous Real Book of jazz charts, and to her dismay, found virtually none.

"New Standards" has been celebrated by NPR, Billboard, The Guardian, Jazzwise, Jazz Thing, De Standaard and more for its groundbreaking mission and ambition. Says The Guardian, “the pioneering Carrington is undoing the idea of jazz as a boys’ club.”

Live At The Detroit Jazz Festival by Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Leo Genovese and esperanza spalding is nominated for Best Jazz Instrumental Album and Best Improvised Jazz Solo for Shorter and Genovese’s performance on “Endangered Species”. In a testament to the level of trust and respect these great artists share, the set was almost entirely improvised, leaving space for the spontaneous expression and assured interplay between these four leaders of the modern jazz world.

About Candid Records

Between 1960 - 1963 founder, A&R man, and producer Nat Hentoff recorded over 30 extraordinary albums for the new Candid Records label. One cannot underestimate the breadth of these recordings - From bebop, to the avant-garde, to blues. Candid sat dormant for years until Black Lion Records founder and producer, Alan Bates, bought the label in 1989. Picking up where Hentoff left off, Bates recorded, and acquired a wide variety of jazz artists. He signed American treasures like legendary journey-man pianist Kenny Barron, the great organist Shirley Scott, and saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr., and with a keen eye for emerging talent, he helped launch the careers of Jamie Cullum and Stacey Kent. The next phase of Candid Records is happening now. Titles from the Hentoff years are being restored and remastered. There’s new music from Stacey Kent (Songs From Other Places), a Best Latin Jazz Album Grammy win for Brazilian pianist (and vocalist) Eliane Elias’ Mirror Mirror album with the legendary Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés, and an album from jazz giant Wayne Shorter with Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding and Leo Genovese (Live At The Detroit Jazz Festival.) Today’s Candid is not only committed to its legacy but looks forward to defining its future with the quality of music that is synonymous with its heritage. Learn more at www.candidrecords.com