CEA Announces 2005 Demmy Award Finalists

26-Apr-05

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced the finalists for the 2005 Demmy Awards, which recognize outstanding content for audio demonstration in five categories including ""Best CD Track,"" ""Best High Resolution Two-Channel Track,"" ""Best High Resolution Multi-Channel Track,"" ""Best Segment of a DVD as a Movie,"" and ""Best Segment of a DVD as a Music Video or Concert."" The 2005 Demmy Awards, an initiative of CEA's High Performance Audio Subdivision, highlight recordings that reflect the highest quality of sound engineering, incorporate natural tonal balance and great clarity of detail and have a realistic, three-dimensional soundstage. These recordings are musically convincing and emotionally engaging and, thereby, provide consumers with an exceptional sonic experience in the retail demonstration environment.  The 2005 Demmy Award finalists are:Best CD Track- ""Jersey Girl"" - Holly Cole, Temptation (Blue Note Records)- ""Seven Bridges Road"" - The Eagles, Hell Freezes Over (Digital Sound)- ""Narrow Daylight"" - Diana Krall, The Girl in the Other Room (Verve)- ""Stimela (The Coal Train)"" - Hugh Masekela, Hope (Triloka)- ""Come Fly with Me"" - Frank Sinatra, Sinatra at the Sands (Warner Brothers)Best High Resolution Two-Channel Track- ""Serenade for Winds, 3rd Movement"" - The Academy of St. Martin-in- the-Fields, Amadeus ñ Original Soundtrack (Fantasy Records)- ""A Love Supreme"" ñ John Coltrane, A Love Supreme (Impulse!)- ""Piano Trio in G Minor: Scherzo; Intermezzo: Moderato con allegro"" ñ The Florestan Trio, French Piano Trios (Hyperion)- ""Narrow Daylight"" - Diana Krall, The Girl in the Other Room (Verve)- ""Good Morning Little School Girl"" ñ Muddy Waters, Folk Singer (Chess)Best High Resolution Multi-Channel Track- ""Breathe"" ñ Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon (Capitol)- ""Hunting Wabbits"" ñ Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, XXL (Silverline Records)- ""Ripple"" ñ Grateful Dead, American Beauty (Rhino Records)- ""Mosaic"" ñ Laurence Juber, Guitar Noir (AIX)- ""Temptation"" - Diana Krall, The Girl in the Other Room (Verve)Best Segment of a DVD as a Movie- ""Chapter 15: Viva Santa Anna"" - Sound Editors: Charles Maynes, Keith Bilderbeck,Ben Wilkins, Brian Jennings, Bruce Stubblefield/ Music by: Carter Burwell, The Alamo (Buena Vista Home Entertainment)- ""Chapter 17: Remember the Alamo"" - Sound Editors: Charles Maynes, Keith Bilderbeck,Ben Wilkins, Brian Jennings, Bruce Stubblefield/ Music by: Carter Burwell, The Alamo (Buena Vista Home Entertainment)- ""Chapter 8: Sandstorm"" - Supervising Sound Editor: Howell Gibbens /Music: James Newton Howard, Hidalgo (Buena Vista Home Video)- ""Chapter 8: Freedom"" - Sound Editor: Iain Eyer, Music by: Hans Zimmer, King Arthur (Buena Vista Home Video)- ""Chapter 14: The Gunfight Begins"" ñ Production Sound: Glen Gauthier/ Music: Michael Kamen, Open Range (Buena Vista Home Video)Best Segment of a DVD as a Music Video or Concert- ""Sing Along"" ñ Blue Man Group, The Complex Rock Tour Live (Lava)- ""High and Dry/Singing in the Rain"" ñ Jamie Cullum, Live at Blenheim Palace (Verve)- ""Dark Star"" ñ Grateful Dead, The Closing of Winterland, December 31, 1978 (Monterey Video)- ""Narrow Daylight"" ñ Diana Krall, Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival (Universal Music Video)- ""Lido"" ñ Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs ñ Greatest Hits Live (Coming Home Studios) The 2005 Demmy Awards winners will be announced during the final dinner at CEA's PARA Management Conference, May 14, 2005 at the Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, California. The PARA Management Conference brings together specialty audio-video retailers from across the country to help grow the industry through education, networking and keynote addresses tailored to the needs of the audio-video retail community. For more information, visit http://www.ce.org/paraconf

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