Pete McGuinness, B.M.’86 earned two arranging nominations for work on his second album as a bandleader of the Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra (Summit Records) while recent grad Jeremy Fox, MM ’01, DMA ’13, earned an arranging nomination on his inaugural album project With Love (Jazzbill Records).
In addition multi-Grammy Award winning music engineer and producer Andrew Scheps B.M. ’89 (Adele, Black Sabbath, Red Hot Chili Peppers) was a music engineer and mixer on the new Beyoncé album that was nominated in the Album of the Year category. Scheps also mixed the hit single “Take Me to Church” that garnered a Song of the Year Grammy nomination for singer-songwriter Andrew Hozier-Bryne. Andrew Scheps is one of the most in-demand music engineers and producers on the recording scene today. He was a featured speaker for Mix with the Masters in 2012 and 2013.
Pete McGuinness graduated from the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1986. Today he is a highly respected arranger, bandleader, trombonist and singer in the New York area. His current Grammy nominations are in two different arranging categories: first in the Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist category for his arrangement of “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life” from the Strength in Numbers album recorded by the Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra. McGuinness was also the vocalist on the track. His second Grammy nomination is in the Best Arrangement for Instrumental or A Cappella category for his creative samba-infused arrangement of Stephen Foster’s classic “Beautiful Dreamer” on the same album. All About Jazz praised the project upon its release, stating, “His deft use of harmony and color everywhere is exceptional.” The project was released by Summit Records, which is owned by UM alumnus Christopher "Kip" Sullivan, B.M. '81, M.M. '84, M.B.A. '86.
Jeremy Fox is a recent grad of the Jazz Composition doctoral program at the Frost School of Music directed by Gary Lindsay, and also earned a Master of Music degree in Studio Jazz Writing at Frost. Fox earned this Grammy nomination, his first, in the Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist for his arrangement of “All My Tomorrows” featuring vocalist Kate McGarry on his inaurual album With Love: Arrangements for Some of My Favorite Singers (Jazzbill Records). The recording features Fox conducting 11 of his big band and orchestra arrangements with a great line-up of vocalists Kate McGarry, Kate Reid, M.M. ’96, D.M.A. ’03, Sunny Wilkinson, Peter Eldridge, Lauren Kinhan, Wendy Pedersen B.M. ’89, Derek Fawcett, Anders Edenroth, Rose Max and Kevin Mahogany.
Over 40 musicians from the Frost School of Music were featured in the studio orchestra including Henry Mancini Institute fellows and Stamps Distinguished Ensemble Scholars. Music engineering alumna Stefanie “Teff” Martinez, B.S. ’13 was assistant recording engineer and the project was co-produced by Jeremy Fox and vocalist-arranger Kelly Garner DMA, ’14. JazzTimes magazine calls the album "a cornucopia of singular delights", and says Jeremy Fox “numbers among the few arrangers who rival [Nelson] Riddle's prowess."
Congratulations to the 2015 Grammy nominees from the University of Miami Frost School of Music!
