The nominees for the 58th annual Grammy Awards were announced in December. In the category of Best Latin Jazz Album, nominees included “Intercambio” by the Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet.
The quintet is headed by Wayne Wallace, a trombonist and professor of practice in the Jazz Studies department. Wallace also composes, arranges and produces for the Latin Jazz Quintet, according to the release.
Wallace is also the head of the label Patois Records, which released “Intercambio.”
The quintet also features Michael Spiro, a percussionist and associate professor of music in the percussion and jazz studies departments.
“Intercambio” is the third Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet album to receive a nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album. The quintet’s albums “Latin Jazz / Jazz Latin,” from 2013, and ”¡Bien Bien!,” from 2009, also received nominations.
The nomination is Wallace’s seventh overall nomination and Spiro’s ninth overall, according to the release.
According to the release, alumni of the music school also contributed to Grammy-nominated recordings.
Alumnus and early music tenor Aaron Sheehan sang on two releases nominated for Best Opera Recording: “Steffani: Niobe, Regina Di Tebe” by the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and “Monteverdi: Il Ritorno D’Ulisse in Patria” by Boston Baroque. Sheehan won a Grammy in the same category last year.
“Monteverdi: Il Ritorno D’Ulisse in Patria” also featured alumnus tenor Daniel Shirley.
Recording arts alumna Laura Sisk was an engineer on Taylor Swift’s album “1989,” which received nominations for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album. Songs from the album were also nominated in the Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance categories.
Jack Evans
