2008 Woodie Awards
MSU music professor plays his part in this year's Grammy Awards
Issue date: 12/1/04 Section: News
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He became a member of the Academy after a phone conversation last fall with the record producer for the Boston Brass, a music ensemble coming to McNeese this spring as part of the 2005 Banners Series.
"I knew the record producer and had called him to see if the group would put on some music clinics for our students during its visit here," said Scott. "He then asked me if I knew that Boston Brass was up for a Grammy and had I voted for the group? I told him I wasn't a member and he told me that I should be."
So Scott went online and checked on the criteria. "One of the criteria stated that a musician had to have recorded with a national label to become a voting member of the Academy," said Scott. He has recorded two CDs as a member of Pastiche, a quartet of McNeese faculty members, with Innova out of St. Paul, Minn., and with Centaur of Baton Rouge.
"There was an application to fill out, and once you qualify and pay a membership fee, you are officially a voting member," said Scott. "And as a voting member, you become active in the selection process and policies of the Academy."
In early fall, he received nomination ballots in two parts. Part one included the four major categories: Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist. The remaining categories were grouped under 31 specialized fields and Scott could only vote in nine of those fields.
"In addition to the four big categories, we were told to select fields in our areas of expertise and I voted in such fields as jazz, musical shows, classical, chamber, instrumental and soundtracks," he said. He could have selected such areas as pop, rock, Latin, blues, R&B or rap.