Crowdfunding can also be used to successfully finance major projects. The album "Centennial", which was realized in this way with previously unrecorded big band scores by Gil Evans, was nominated for three Grammys.
The album is nominated in the categories Best Large Jazz Ensemble, Best Instrumental Arrangement and Best Arrangement Featuring A Vocalist (for the track "Look to the Rainbow" with Luciana Souza).
"Centennial" (gilevansproject.com) was realized by former Evans employee Ryan Truesdell and jointly financed via the Artistshare platform. In Switzerland, the platform wemakeit.ch crowdfunding.
