JAY GRAYDON and BEBOP album in the 45th Grammy Nominations!!!

JAY GRAYDON in the GRAMMY Nominations once again! This time he is competing with the highly praised BEBOP album in 4 categories!!!

JAY GRAYDON - twice Grammy awarded and 12 times nominated Los Angeles top songwriter, recording artist, guitarist, producer, arranger, engineer, and more, is once again competing in the GRAMMY Nominations. He released the straight-ahead jazz album BEBOP on his own record label SONIC THRUST RECORDS last year and this recording is the result of the united musical talents by a group of top-notch musicians, all first rate studio aces with many years of experience in the music industry.

Jay Graydon is an internationally renowned artist with many hits over the years. Among the Grammy nominations is e.g. the prestigious title Producer of the Year and also a Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Recording.

The sidemen on BEBOP are not exactly any novices either, or how about Dave Weckl on drums, Dave Carpenter on bass, Bill Cantos on piano and Brandon Fields on sax. Quite a thrilling line up!

The musicians on this album have perfect understanding of one another. The versatility of the playing, with harmonic highlights such as Jay Graydon's clean genuine jazz guitar sound, Brandon Fields' warm sax tone, Dave Weckl's swinging drums, Bill Cantos' elaborate piano passages and Dave Carpenter's jazzy bass, makes the album a subtle intelligent masterpiece of quality music, caressing the ears of the listener.

The compositions are all new, apart from the national anthem of course. The collaboration of these five skilled musicians, offering each other elbow-room for equilibristic solos, is exceedingly professional and a joy to experience.

The BEBOP album really lets the true musical genius of Jay Graydon shine through. The delicious arrangement and unusual treatment of the STAR SPANGLED BANNER showcases Jay's sensitive feel and touch. Listen for instance to the exquisite flageolets opening and ending his rare arrangement of the national anthem, giving it renewed beauty.

The BEBOP album is nominated in the following categories in the 45th GRAMMY Nominations:

Field 10 JAZZ
47. Best Jazz Instrumental Solo (the voting number is) 062
48. Best Jazz Instrumental Album (the voting number is) 064

Field 22 COMPOSING/ARRANGING
81. Best Instrumental Arrangement (the voting number is) 109

Field 23 PRODUCTION
87. Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical) (the voting number is) 023

If you are a NARAS voting member we hope you will consider voting for us in the above categories. Please tell your friends and colleagues who are voting members to vote for it as well. This outstanding straight-ahead jazz album is as good as it ever gets, quality music lovers!!!

Thank you!

More info, sound samples, reviews and gig photos on the web site http://www.jaygraydon.com