FYC - For Your Consideration 59th Grammy Awards

"Best Jazz with Vocals" BOSSAtoo

"Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals" for Meditation 
Klaus Mueller / Kristine Mills

"Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals" Inutil Paisagem
Itaiguara Brandão / Kristine Mills

    BOSSAtoo placed #2 on the CMJ Jazz TOP 5 Add Chart, debuted at #35, then peaked at #26 on the CMJ Jazz Charts. BOSSAtoo is enjoying extensive national and international radio play. BOSSAtoo is available on iTunes, amazon.com and other fine retailers.  

    "Writing this album was pure joy. Why BOSSAtoo? It’s not #2 as in the second bossa album to follow bossanovafied, but Bossa (also) to include the range of styles within Brazilian music. I loved the challenge of exploring the range within the Brazilian context. I worked to write variations on Samba (3/4 and classic 4/4), Afoxê, Partido Alto, Baião and Bossa Nova. These song really stretched my writing and my guitar playing. I hope you enjoy listening to BOSSAtoo as much as we enjoyed creating it!" - Kristine Mills  - October 2015 

    She is a fine writer of The Song, an even better writer of The Ballad and best of all she writes a compelling narrative. In short, Mills may be considered a complete musician. ”

    — Raul de Gama, World Music Report

    SONGS / Click to listen to the track: MP3 (iPod) and WAV (computer):

    Hold Fast (Mills) 3:17 MP3 
    Journey Back Home (Mills) 4:05 MP3 
    Breathe Your Kiss, (Mills) 3:25 MP3 
    It's Over (Mills) 3:00 MP3 
    Meditation (Jobim, Mendoca, Gimbel; arr. Mueller/Mills) 2:32 MP3
    Silhouette (Mills/Spack) 3:42 MP3 
    Last First Glance (Mills) 2:39 MP3 
    It's Probably Me (Sting, Clapton, Kamen, Sumner) 5:07 MP3 
    Inutil Paisagem / Useless Landscape (Jobim, De Olivera) 3:34 MP3
    Not Waiting for Maybe (Mills) 3:11 MP3
    Burden of Choice (Mills/Spack) 5:25 MP3 
      

    MUSICIANS: 
    Kristine Mills, vocals and percussion 
    Klaus Mueller, piano 
    Itaiguara Brandao, bass and guitar 
    Portihno, drums 
    GRAMMY WINNING Rafael Barato, percussion 

    RECORDING STUDIO: GRAMMY WINNING Samurai Hotel Studio, David Stoller, Astoria, NY 
    RECORDING, MIXING, MASTERING: GRAMMY WINNING Bass Hit Studios, Dave Darlington, NY, NY