Grammy Nominations 2015

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Album of the Year

• Beck: Morning Phase    *WINNER*
• Beyonce: Beyonce    
• Ed Sheeran: X 
• Sam Smith: In the Lonely Hour  
• Pharrell Williams: G I R L 

Best Rock Album

• Beck: Morning Phase    *WINNER*
• Ryan Adams: Ryan Adams 
• The Black Keys: Turn Blue  
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Hypnotic Eye    
• U2: Songs of Innocence   

Best Alternative Music Album

• St.Vincent: St.Vincent   *WINNER*
• Alt-J: This Is All Yours  
• Arcade Fire: Reflektor  
• Cage The Elephant: Melophobia  
• Jack White: Lazaretto    

Best Rap Album

• Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP2    *WINNER*
• Iggy Azalea: The New Classic 
• Childish Gambino: Because the Internet    
• Common: Nobody's Smiling  
• Schoolboy Q: Oxymoron   
• Wiz Khalifa: Blacc Hollywood 

Best Jazz Vocal Album

• Dianne Reeves: Beautiful Life    *WINNER*
• Billy Childs & Various Artists: Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro  
• Rene Marie: I Wanna Be Evil    
• Gretchen Parlato: Live in NYC   
• Tierney Sutton: Paris Sessions  

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

• Chick Corea Trio: Trilogy     *WINNER*
• Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band: Landmarks  
• Fred Hersch Trio: Floating  
• Bobby Hutcherson, David Sanborn, Joey DeFrancesco Featuring Billy Hart: Enjoy the View 
• Jason Moran: All Rise: A Joyful Elegy for Fats Waller  

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

• Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band: Life in the Bubble     *WINNER* 
• The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra: The L.A. Treasures Project  
• Rufus Reid: Quiet Pride: The Elizabeth Catlett Project  
• Archie Shepp Attica Blues Orchestra: Live: I Hear the Sound  
• The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: Overtime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer  

Best Latin Jazz Album

• Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: The Offense of the Drum    *WINNER*
• Conrad Herwig Featuring Joe Lovano: The Latin Side of Joe Henderson  
• The Pedrito Martinez Group: The Pedrito Martinez Group  
• Emilio Solla Y La Inestable De Brooklyn: Second Half  
• Yosvany Terry: New Throned King  

Best Americana Album

• Rosanne Cash: The River & the Thread      *WINNER*
• John Hiatt: Terms of My Surrender  
• Keb' Mo': Bluesamericana  
• Nickel Creek: A Dotted Line  
• Sturgill Simpson: Metamodern Sounds in Country Music 

Best Bluegrass Album

• The Earls of Leicester: The Earls of Leicester    *WINNER*
• Noam Pikelny: Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe  
• Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen: Cold Spell  
• Bryan Sutton: Into My Own  
• Rhonda Vincent: Only Me   

Best Blues Album

• Johnny Winter: Step Back   *WINNER*
• Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin: Common Ground- Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy 
• Ruthie Foster: Promise of a Brand New Day
• Charlie Musselwhite: Juke Joint Chapel    
• Bobby Rush With Blinddog Smokin': Decisions 

Best Folk Album

• Old Crow Medicine Show: Remedy    *WINNER*
• Mike Auldridge, Jerry Douglas & Rob Ickes: Three Bells   
• Alice Gerrard: Follow The Music  
• Eliza Gilkyson: The Nocturne Diaries  
• Jesse Winchester: A Reasonable Amount of Trouble  

Best World Music Album

• Angelique Kidjo: Eve    *WINNER*
• Toumani Diabate & Sidiki Diabate: Toumani & Sidiki    
• Wu Man, Luis Conte & Daniel Ho: Our World In Song  
• Sergio Mendes: Magic  
• Anoushka Shankar: Traces Of You  

Best Musical Theater Album

• Beautiful: The Carole King Musical     *WINNER*
• Aladdin    
• A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder  
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch  
• West Side Story 

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media

• Alexandre Desplat: The Grand Budapest Hotel    *WINNER*
• Christophe Beck: Frozen  
• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross: Gone Girl  
• Steven Price: Gravity  
• Thomas Newman: Saving Mr. Banks    

Best Instrumental Composition

• John Williams: The Book Thief     *WINNER*
• Stanley Clarke: Last Train to Sanity  
• Gordon Goodwin: Life in the Bubble  
• Rufus Reid: Recognition    
• Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile: Tarnation  

Best Orchestral Performance

• John Adams: City Noir    *WINNER*
  (David Robertson, Conductor: St. Louis Symphony)
• Dutilleux: Symphony No. 1; Tout un Mode Lointain; The Shadows Of Time  
  (Ludovic Morlot, conductor: Seattle Symphony)
• Dvorak: Symphony No. 8; Janacek Symphonic Suite from Jenufa  
  (Manfred Honeck, Conductor: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
• Schumann: Symphonien 1-4    
  (Simon Rattle, Conductor, Berliner Philharmoniker)
• Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 6 &7; Tapiola  
  (Robert Spano, Conductor: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)

Best Opera Recording

• Charpentier: La Descente d'Orphee aux Enfers     *WINNER*
• Milhaud: L'Orestie d'Eschyle    
• Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie 
• Schoenberg: Moses und Aron 
• Strauss: Elektra  

Best Choral Performance

• The Sacred Spirit of Russia     *WINNER*
  (Craig Hella Johnson, Conductor: Conspirare)
• Bach: Matthäus-Passion  
  (Rene Jacobs, Conductor: Werner Gura & Johannes Weisser; Akademie Fur Musik Berlin; Rias Kammerchor & Staats-Und Domchor Berlin)
• Dyrud: Out of Darkness  
  (Vivianne Sydnes, Conductor: Erlend Aagaard Nilsen & Geir Morten Oien; Sarah Head & Lars Sitter; Nidaros Cathedral Choir)
• Holst: First Choral Symphony; The Mystic Trumpeter  
  (Andrew Davis, Conductor: Stephen Jachon, chorus master: Susan Gritton; BBC Symphony Orchestra; BBC Symphony Chorus)
• Mozart: Requiem  
  (John Butt, Conductor: Matthew Brook, Rowan Hellier, Thomas Hobbs & Joanne Lunn; Dunedin Consort)

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

• In 27 Pieces- The Hillary Hahn Encores    *WINNER*
  (Hilary Hahn & Cory Smythe)
• Dreams And Prayers  
  (David Krakauer & A Far City)
• Martinu: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1-3  
  (Steven Isserlis & Olli Mustonen)
• Partch: Castor & Pollux   
  (Partch)
• Sing Thee Nowell  
  (New York Polyphony)

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

• Play     *WINNER*
  (Jason Vieaux)
• All The Things You Are  
  (Leon Fleisher)
• The Carnegie Recital  
  (Daniil Trifonov)
• Dutilleux: Tout Un Monde Lointain  
  (Xavier Phillips; Ludovic Morlot, Conductor: Seattle Symphony)
• Toccatas  
  (Jory Vinikour)

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

• Douce France    *WINNER*
  (Anne Sofie Von Otter)
• Porpora: Arias  
  (Philippe Jaroussky)
• Schubert: Die Schöne Mullerin  
  (Florian Boesch)
• Stella di Napoli  
  (Joyce DiDonato)
• Virtuoso Rossini Arias  
  (Lawrence Brownlee)

Best Comtemporary Classical Composition

• Adams: Become Ocean    *WINNER*
• Clyne: Prince of Clouds  
• Crumb: Voices from the Heartland  
• Paulus: Concerto for Two Trumpets & Band  
• Sierra: Sinfonia No. 4  

• Album of the Year
• Best Musical Theater Album
• Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
• Best Orchestral Performance
• Best Opera Recording
• Best Choral Performance
• Best Small Ensemble Performance
• Best Classical Instrumental Solo
• Best Classical Vocal Solo
• Best Contemporary Classical Composition
• Best Instrumental Composition
• Best Jazz Vocal Album
• Best Jazz Instrumental Album
• Best Large Jazz Instrumental Album
• Best Latin Jazz Album
• Best Blues Album
• Best Rock Album
• Best Alternative Music Album
• Best Rap Album
• Best Americana Album
• Best Bluegrass Album
• Best Folk Album
• Best World Music Album