Juno Nominations Announced

The Nominees for the 2006 Juno Awards were announced yesterday in Toronto. The Awards will be handed out on Sunday, April 2nd in Halifax.

Jazz music made a strong showing in the list of nominations, with Neo-big band crooner Michael Buble and jazz-pop singer-pianist Diana Krall receiving the second highest number of Juno nominations after Nickelback, with five each.

Listed below are the jazz and blues nominees:

Fan Choice: Celine Dion; Diana Krall; Michael Buble; Nickelback; Simple Plan.

Single of the year: When the Night Feels My Song, Bedouin Soundclash; Inside and Out, Feist; Man I Used To Be, k-os; Home, Michael Buble; Photograph, Nickelback.

Album of the year: Christmas Songs, Diana Krall; 219 Days, Kalan Porter; It’s Time, Michael Buble; All The Right Reasons, Nickelback; Under The Lights, Rex Goudie.

Artist of the year: Boom Desjardins; Diana Krall; Kalan Porter; Michael Buble; Rex Goudie.

Instrumental album of the year: Sentimental Strings, Bobby Creed & His Orchestra a.k.a. Roberto Occhipinti; Belladonna, Daniel Lanois; Christmas Serenity, George Carlaw a.k.a. Yuri Sazonoff; Rainy Days and Mondays, Nancy Walker; Balance, Tomas Hamilton aka Charles T. Cozens.

Pop album of the year: Boom Desjardins, Boom Desjardins; Jann Arden, Jann Arden; 219 Days, Kalan Porter; It’s Time, Michael Buble; These Old Charms, Theresa Sokyrka.

Vocal jazz album of the year: Twenty For One, Cadence; Christmas Songs, Diana Krall; Rock Swings, Paul Anka; Just You, Just Me, Ranee Lee; Sophie Milman, Sophie Milman.

Contemporary jazz album of the year: Shurum Burum Jazz Circus, David Buchbinder; Encuentro en la Habana, Hilario Duran & Perspectiva; Radio Guantanamo (Guantanamo Blues Project Vol. 1), Jane Bunnett; One Take: Volume Two, Marc Rogers, Robi Botos, Phil Dwyer, Terri Lyne Carrington; Yemaya, Roberto Occhipinti.

Traditional jazz album of the year: Mainly Mingus, Dave Young Quintet; Ask Me Later, Don Thompson Quartet; In a Sentimental Mood, Ian McDougall Quintet; Time Flies, P.J. Perry; Let Me Tell You About My Day, Phil Dwyer with Alan Jones and Rodney Whitaker.

R&B/soul recording of the year: The Naughty Song, Cory Lee; Divine Brown, Divine Brown; This Is Me, Jully Black; Massari, Massari; Back For More, Shawn Desman.

Blues album of the year: Voice + Story, Harrison Kennedy; Songs of Vice and Sorrow, Julian Fauth; Let It Loose, Kenny ‘Blues Boss’ Wayne; Villanelle, Paul Reddick; The Gas and the Clutch, The Perpetrators.

For a full list of nominees and more information visit www.juno-awards.ca