piano score by Grusin and much to everyone's surprise, received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Score by the Academy Awards branch which added another accolade for the company. The Cure would be his final soundtrack released for the label which came out after his departure in 1995. Also that year, Sergio Salvatore, a young pianist from NJ would make his debut on the label. What made this release unique was the fact that Salvatore was only 13 years old at the time the album was recorded and became the youngest artist ever signed to the label. Bernard Wright, who Grusin and Rosen produced in the early 1980s during their logo deal with Arista Records, was their youngest at 16 years old until Salvatore was signed. Grusin and Rosen had seen the child prodigy on the Johnny Carson Show and were highly impressed by his maturity and performance. The label would produce and release his self-titled release Sergio Salvatore during 1993 and his well-received follow up, Tune Up in 1994, which featured many of GRP's artists including Chick Corea, Gary Burton and Russ Freeman until Salvatore left the label after Grusin and Rosen departed and recorded with both Concord Records in 1996 and N2K Encoded Music in 1997, where Grusin and Rosen were both involved with that label in some capacity. In 1994, the label would release the soundtrack to the hit and critically acclaimed documentary film Hoop Dreams, which was nominated for Academy Awards and had fallen into a lot controversy about how the film was handled by the Academy voters branch. The label would also pay homage to a few jazz legends in albums recorded by both Dave Grusin and Arturo Sandoval. The albums The Gershwin Connection and Homage to Duke by Grusin, and I Remember Clifford by Sandoval, were purely jazz albums dedicated to George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Clifford Brown, where were best-sellers for the label and featured elaborate artwork. Also, by this time the label had produced several offshoots that included Stretch Records, Peak Records, and a partnership with MCA in which a few releases by artists such as Laima and Patti Austin were under the GRP/MCA partnership. This did not last long, however. 1995 - Present After founders Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen left the label in early in 1995, famed producer Tommy LiPuma was given the reins of the label with a few