Verve Label Group

Congratulations to all our VLG #GRAMMY nominees! The Recording Academy ?? Best Jazz Vocal Album A JOYFUL HOLIDAY Samara Joy Best Jazz Performance TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE ME Samara Joy featuring Sullivan Fortner ? Best Alternative Jazz Album NIGHT REIGN Arooj Aftab Best Global Music Performance RAAT KI RANI Arooj Aftab Best Song Written for Visual Media IT NEVER WENT AWAY? Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson, songwriters? ? Best Spoken Word Poetry Album THE HEART, THE MIND, THE SOUL? Tank and The Bangas Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album CHRISTMAS WISH Gregory Porter (Verve/Blue Note) ? Best Americana Performance SUBTITLES Madison Cunningham? ? Best Americana Album THE OTHER SIDE T Bone Burnett ? Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album BREAK OF DAWN Ricky Kej ? Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein London Symphony Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Bradley Cooper? ? Best Album Notes THE CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT Lauren Du Graf, album notes writer (Alice Coltrane) Best Album Notes John Culshaw – The Art Of The Producer – The Early Years 1948-55 Dominic Fyfe, album notes writer (John Culshaw) ? Best Opera Recording SAARIAHO: ADRIANA MATER Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Fleur Barron, Axelle Fanyo, Nicholas Phan & Christopher Purves; Jason O’Connell, producer (San Francisco Symphony; San Francisco Symphony Chorus; Timo Kurkikangas) ? Best Classical Instrumental Solo BACH: GOLDBERG VARIATIONS? Víkingur ólafsson ? Best Contemporary Classical Composition SAARIAHO: ADRIANA MATER Kaija Saariaho, composer (Esa-Pekka Salonen, Fleur Barron, Nicholas Phan, Christopher Purves, Axelle Fanyo, San Francisco Symphony Chorus & Orchestra)

Congrats to?Jon Batiste?and Samara Joy for making the?EBONY Media?#EBONYPOWER100?Music Innovators list! ?? https://lnkd.in/gWmDCJjb #JonBatiste #SamaraJoy

We are thrilled to welcome The Head and the Heart to the Verve Forecast roster. Listen to their new single "Arrow" - out now! https://lnkd.in/e_Jhw-Wq #TheHeadAndTheHeart #NewMusic #NewSigning

Samara Joy's new album ‘Portrait’ is out now! The recording is a story of the community she’s created with a new generation of young players. Seven musicians, seven fresh perspectives and musical backgrounds - all joined together in a context designed for growth and exploration. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/eA8zeukv #SamaraJoy #NewMusic #Jazz

The team at Verve Label Group is proud to announce the promotions of Jamie Krents to CEO and president, and Dawn Olejar to chief operating officer. They will now lead the strategy for the entire group, comprised of storied labels like Verve Records, Impulse! Records and Decca Records US, along with international label partners Decca Classics, Deutsche Grammophon and others. Read the full Billboard article here: https://lnkd.in/eu8d7wWi

Another one for the books! Thank you Verve Label Group and Sarah Kinsley for another beautiful Connect Event! Your fans are beautiful!

We’re thrilled to announce Samara Joy’s new album ‘Portrait’ is coming October 11th! The recording is a story of the community she’s created with a new generation of young players. Seven musicians, seven fresh perspectives and musical backgrounds - all joined together in a context designed for growth and exploration. Pre-save/Pre-order: https://lnkd.in/eA8zeukv #SamaraJoy #VerveRecords

We’re thrilled that Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good” has been featured in?Nike's Jordan Brand “Our Turn” Project. #NinaSimone #FeelingGood

‘Louis in London’, the last great performance by Louis Armstrong, the ambassador of jazz. Out Now ?? https://lnkd.in/eFRdT5ji #LouisArmstrong #LouisinLondon

Celebrating the Recording Industry Association of America? (RIAA) certification of “What A Wonderful World” with RIAA Awards and Wynton Marsalis, Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and President of the Louis Armstrong Foundation ?? Today we are thrilled to announce the Recording Industry Association of America? (RIAA)’s historic 5x Platinum certification of “What A Wonderful World,” marking the original recording’s cumulative US sales of more than 5 million since its first release in 1967. Inducted to the GRAMMY? Hall of Fame in 1999, the song is among the world’s most beloved – and best-selling – standards of all time, with international certifications also including 5x Platinum in Canada; 1.5 Platinum in Germany; and Platinum in the UK, Denmark, Italy, France, and Spain. “What A Wonderful World” from the upcoming album ‘Louis in London’ is out now. #LouisArmstrong #WhatAWonderfulWorld