2024 Latin Grammy – Nominations

Congratulations to the artists and labels who had their albums nominated for the 2024 Latin Grammy Awards

Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album

Best Latin Jazz Performer

My Heart Speaks from 2xHD Mastering and Resonance Records is the most extravagantly lush album of Ivan Lins’s career. Performing rare gems from his catalog, the composer is backed by the 91-piece symphony of Tbilisi, capital of the Republic of Georgia.

Best Contemporary Classical Work/Composition

“I called Julien Labro last night with the news that Takacs Assad Labro earned a Latin GRAMMY nomination for Julien’s piece which we premiered on the album. Julien wrote the evocative Meditation No.1 eliciting intoxicating tango rhythms conjuring Astor Piazzolla and other Argentine masters of the golden era. Julien performs bandoneón with legendary Takács Quartet on their first Yarlung Records release. Listen again to track 03 at NativeDSD, mastered up to DSD512 by our very own Tom Caulfield.
Thank you Takacs and Bravo Julien!”
– Bob Attiyeh, producer

Andrew Quint gives the recording Five Stars in The Absolute Sound:

This release Yarlung Records hits the trifecta—engaging unfamiliar music, committed performances, and spectacular sound. Clarice Assad is a Brazilian-American composer/pianist, who moves effortlessly between classical, jazz, and popular idioms. She accompanies her own scat singing on two selections (Luminous and Milton Nacimento’s Cravo e Canela) while Constellation for violin and piano features a touchingly songful slow movement. Completely different is the slashing, angular Clash for bandoneón and string quartet. Bryce Dessner’s quasi-minimalistic Circles is scored for the same forces, and Julien Labro, the album’s featured bandoneón virtuoso, contributes Meditation No. 1, an eight-minute reverie for this instrumental grouping as well. Kaija Saariaho’s Nocturne, for solo violin, fits the program’s aura of anxious melancholia. The Takács Quartet is approaching their semicentennial, and although only the cellist remains from the original ensemble, the group’s intensity and technical fluency is intact. Yarlung’s sonics are revelatory. Balances are believable, and although the recorded perspective isn’t immediate, Assad’s first vocal entrance on the Nascimento piece made me jump. …vinyl options are also available.