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F/Y/C Round 1 GRAMMY® submissions From Motéma - - Stefon Harris, Django Festival Allstars, Shuteen Erdenebaatar & Nils Kugelmann, Gregory Porter
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For Your Consideration - 69th Annual GRAMMY Awards
Motéma Friends... we invite you to experience our Round 1 GRAMMY® submissions.
Academy Voters...  thank you kindly for considering these projects!
 
STEFON HARRIS
+ BLACKOUT
LEGACY DANCES
feat. Casey Benjamin
"Glorious..."
ALL MUSIC
★★★★ ½
SUBMITTED FOR
• BEST JAZZ
INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
Legacy Dances

• BEST JAZZ
PERFORMANCE
"I Know Love"
• BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION
"Echoes of the Lion"

• BEST ARRANGEMENT,
INSTRUMENTAL OR A CAPPELLA
"West End Blues"
• BEST ARRANGEMENT, INSTRUMENTS AND VOCALS
"What A Wonderful World"

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Four-time GRAMMY® nominee
Stefon Harris and his influential Blackout band celebrate their 20th Anniversary and tribute their founding member
Casey Benjamin, whose final Blackout recordings grace this landmark album.
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"An Inspiration."
JAZZWISE
★★★★
WATCH: "LEGACY DANCES" with Casey Benjamin
"One of the best small combos on the jazz scene today."
– DOWNBEAT ★★★★
 
Shuteen Erdenebaatar & Nils Kugelmann - Under the Same Stars
SHUTEEN ERDENEBAATAR
& NILS KUGELMANN
UNDER THE SAME STARS
SUBMITTED FOR

• BEST CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
"Deeply soothing"
— JAZZWISE (UK)
"Finesse, lyricism and
quiet strength...
a medicinal record!"
— TÉLÉRAMA

"Uusually profound!"
— JAZZTHING
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Following her award-winning 2023 debut Rising Sun, Mongolian-born, Berlin-based pianist Shuteen Erdenebaatar —who appeared on the 2025 DownBeat Critics' 'Rising Star Artist of the Year" list — returned in Sept 2025 with this exquisite and truly original piano and contra-alto clarinet duo album.

Meditative, romantic and daring, the Erdenebaatar and Kugelmann paint poetic musical miniatures with strokes of jazz, classical, and cinematic music.
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DJANGO FESTIVAL
ALLSTARS
EVOLUTION
Samson Schmitt  Ludovic Beier
Pierre Blanchard
Antonio Licusati  Francko Mehrstein
"Luminous..."
ALL ABOUT JAZZ
★★★★
SUBMITTED FOR
• BEST JAZZ
INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
Evolution

• BEST JAZZ
PERFORMANCE
"Piazza Italia"

• BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION
"Piazza Italia"

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The Allstars carry Django's spirit even farther into the 21st century with this 25th Anniversary album of  outstanding and all-original compositions.  Fusing Manouche tradition with contemporary innovation, world-class jazz improvisation and impossibly tight ensemble work this is a must-see live act.  

DON'T MISS DJANGO FESTIVAL ALLSTARS ON TOUR
THIS NOVEMBER!
CLICK HERE
"Gypsy Jazz for
the 21st Century"
— DOWNBEAT
WATCH:  DFA Highlights at SFJAZZ Center
"Surely the Best Gypsy Swing Band in NY, Paris, or Anywhere!"
– THE ARTS FUSE

GREGORY PORTER
BE GOOD
(Dolby Atmos Edition)
Gregory Porter - Be Good (Dolby Atmos)
Released in Spatial Audio by Motéma on May 8, 2026
via Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Tidal.
SUBMITTED FOR

• BEST IMMERSIVE
AUDIO ALBUM
Experience multi-GRAMMY winning vocal superstar Gregory Porter's 2012 Motéma breakthrough Be Good – one of this century's defining jazz vocal albums – reimagined in Spatial Audio by innovative engineers Ross McCafferty and Florian Angerer of Sounds of Genki.

Adding a fresh, immersive perspective to this beloved soul/jazz classic, these 3D mixes maintain the commanding focus of Porter's rich baritone at the center while the arrangements bloom subtly in three dimensions, revealing new depth, clarity, and warmth in the emotional core of each track.

BE GOOD is also available in 180-gram double-gatefold vinyl and
in CD and Digital editions.
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