2010 GRAMMY Ballot, Mark Rapp's Token Tales

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Top40 Charts/ Gail Boyd Artist Management) - Gail Boyd Artist Management is excited about Mark Rapp's debut recording Token Tales making the ballot for the Best Contemporary Jazz Album, Best Instrumental Composition and Best Instrumental Arrangement categories. Rapp's solo on "1st Minute, 1st Round" is also being considered for a GRAMMY nomination for Best Improvised Solo. Additionally, Jamie Reynolds, Mark's pianist, is up for Best Improvised Solo on Mark's composition "It Should Be" from Token Tales. And Robert "LB" Dorsey is up for Best Engineered Album for his work on Token Tales. Please enjoy the music: www.markrapp.com/grammy.html

MARK RAPP: TOKEN TALES
(Paved Earth Music, catalogueNo :PEM-MRG0901)

Best Contemporary Jazz Album
"Token Tales" (Mark Rapp)

Best Instrumental Composition
"Sweet Serene" (Mark Rapp: Token Tales)

Best Instrumental Arrangement
"Incense & Peppermints" (Mark Rapp: Token Tales)

Best Improvised Jazz Solo
"1st minute, 1st Round" (Mark Rapp soloist)

Best Improvised Jazz Solo
"It Should Be" (Jamie Reynolds pianist on Token Tales)

Best Engineered Album, non-classical
Robert "LB" Dorsey (Token Tales)

"Rapp lives up to his billing as one of today's exciting young trumpeters." - AllAboutJazz.com

"One can't help but sense a distinct identity to Rapp in both his composing and playing... and for this reason, we will be hearing a lot more from him." - Jazz Improv NY Magazine

"He has his own way of defining jazz, which keeps its standard principles...while delving into the experimental side." - JazzTimes.com

"Top 25 emerging trumpeters." - Downbeat