Catherine Russell GRAMMY® Awards Nominee Best Jazz Vocal

With Alone Together, Catherine Russell celebrates her second GRAMMY® nomination in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category. This critically acclaimed release from Catherine Russell was released on March 1st, 2019 on Dot Time Records.  The album sat atop the JazzWeek Radio Chart for five weeks in a row, entered the Billboard Jazz Chart at #6, has been heard on CBS Sunday Morning, and has generated rave reviews from Downbeat Magazine, Mercury News, WBGO, Jazz Journal, and other top-tier media outlets. Alone Together has cemented Russell’s place as the preeminent song interpreter of her day. Johanan Bickhardt, founding partner of Dot Time Records notes “Catherine Russell is an exceptional artist. She uses her instrument to transcend musical landscapes.  She is a gift that just keeps giving, effortlessly releasing musical messages that balance the heart and soul of a lyric with a keen awareness of style and tonality… Dot Time Records is honored and privileged to have this extraordinary talent in our musical family.” This is the first GRAMMY® nomination for Dot Time Records. Russell previously won a GRAMMY® for her role as a featured artist on the Boardwalk Empire HBO-TV soundtrack in 2012, and received a Grammy nomination for her 2016 album, “Harlem On My Mind.”  

“I am honored and so grateful to have Alone Together receive a Grammy nomination. I love the process of recording and I’m thankful to have a superb team of collaborators. I appreciate each and every one of you,” said Catherine Russell of her nomination.

On Alone Together, Russell reinvigorates rare gems and stalwart standards from the Great American Songbook, lending her voice to the compositions of Nat King Cole, Irving Berlin, Eddie de Lange, Jimmy Van Heusen, Al Dubin, Louis Jordan and Harry Warren.   Alone Together features the core musicians of Russell’s touring band, including guitar virtuoso and musical director Matt Munisteri, pianist Mark Shane, bassist Tal Ronen, and drummer Mark McLean. Also featured on select tracks is trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso, trombonist John Allred, tenor saxophonist Evan Arntzen, violinist Dana Ltn, violaist Eddy Malave, and cellist Marika Hughes.