Bill Schnee has been an audio engineer on many recordings and I'm sure insiders are well aware of his work. The same goes for Paul Blakemore. And these engineering type awards are probably dependent on those in the engineering community. I would imagine somebody like Concord would have to promote it in some way -- make it known -- and perhaps they will do that if they feel it is top notch. To me some of the songs on the album could be used for demos by high end audio venders or kiosk type setups where you sample the sound of equipment.
Quote:William S. "Bill" Schnee (born July 4, 1947) is an American musician, music producer, and audio engineer. Schnee has been nominated 11 times for the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical Grammy Award and worked on a multitude of other Grammy nominated and awarded albums. He has won two Grammys, an Emmy for Outstanding Sound for a Television Special, and a Dove Award. In a 45+ year career of very diverse artists, Schnee has received over 135 gold and platinum records and has recorded/mixed over 50 top twenty singles.
Comment by Blakemore in an interview (Universal Audio)
Quote:I know the goal of mastering is to be transparent, but I think when you pour as much heart and soul into a project as you do, that enthusiasm has to come across on the final product.
I really think that there’s this interesting thing that happens in studios, be they recording studios, mixing studios or mastering studios, where somehow what the engineer is feeling about the music gets imprinted in some way on the music. So I think it’s really important as an engineer to open yourself up emotionally and be willing to go wherever it is that the music needs to go.
I also think that it’s very important that you be willing to embrace and love whatever musical style that you’re working on because that affection somehow or another ends up coming out of the speakers in some kind of subtle way.
BTW Blakemore has been more active this week on his FB page (has Cleveland Indians fever). He posted this too:
Quote:Paul R. Blakemore
September 26 at 12:19pm
Two albums I mastered have been nominated for three Latin Grammys. Many thanks to Universal Audio for the powerful software tools that I used to master these Latin Grammy Nominated albums! Universal Audio
Best Engineered Album
Dance Of Time
Rodrigo De Castro Lopes, engineer; Pete Karam, mixer; Paul Blakemore, mastering engineer
(Eliane Elias)
[Concord Jazz]
Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album
Dance Of Time
Eliane Elias
[Concord Jazz]
Best Traditional Tropical Album
To Beny Moré With Love
Jon Secada Featuring The Charlie Sepúlveda Big Band
[BMG/ Peermusic]
Calling it now: "What's That Sound?" will be nominated for a 2017 Grammy
