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The band’s third Blue Note release delivers edgy dynamics and mixed emotional shades

Renee Rosnes assembled the all-women band Artemis in 2016 for a European tour to mark International Women’s Day. Nine years on, the band’s third Blue Note release, Arboresque, finds Artemis stripped back to a core quintet and playing with the collective strength of an established working band. Saxophonist Nicole Glover joined Artemis for 2023’s well-received second album, In Real Time, but the other members were in on the project from the start.

The set begins with the prowling noirish moods of “The Smile of the Snake”, written by one-time Art Blakey pianist Donald Brown and one of three covers arranged by Rosnes, the band’s prime mover and a technically astute pianist. As the theme slithers over sparse double bass, Glover and trumpeter Ingrid Jensen harmonise moodily and solos sustain the theme’s emotional tension. Later in the set, Rosnes’s subtle arrangement and the strength of Noriko Ueda’s double bass refresh the late Wayne Shorter’s oft-played “Footprints.” Equally appealing is the lilting cover of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s waltz “What the World Needs Now Is Love”.

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The main event: The 2025 GRAMMY Awards, officially known as the 67th GRAMMY Awards, took place at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb.2

GRAMMY WINNERS

Best Jazz Instrumental Album: 
“Remembrance” — Chick Corea and Béla Fleck

Best Alternative Jazz Album:
“No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin” — Meshell Ndegeocello

GRAMMY NOMINEES

Category 30 – Best Jazz Performance

“Juno” — Chick Corea & Béla Fleck

Category 31 – Best Jazz Vocal Album

My Ideal — Catherine Russell & Sean Mason

Category 37 – Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

Rhapsody In Blue — Béla Fleck

Category 48 – Best Traditional Blues Album

Hill Country Love — Cedric Burnside

Category 50 – Best Folk Album

American Patchwork Quartet —  American Patchwork Quartet

Category 84 – Best Instrumental Composition

“Remembrance” — Chick Corea, composer (Chick Corea & Béla Fleck)

Category 85 – Best Arrangement, instrumental or A Cappella

“Rhapsody In Blue(Grass)” — Béla Fleck & Ferde Grofé, arrangers (Béla Fleck Featuring Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz & Bryan Sutton)

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