The nominees for the 50th annual Grammy awards were announced today. The nominees in the jazz categories are as follows:
Best Contemporary Jazz Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks)
* Party Hats/Will Bernard [Palmetto Records]
* Downright Upright/Brian Bromberg [Artistry Music]
* Re-imagination/Eldar [Masterworks Jazz]
* River: The Joni Letters/Herbie Hancock [Verve]
* He Had A Hat/Jeff Lorber [Blue Note]
Best Jazz Vocal Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks)
* Avant Gershwin/Patti Austin [Rendezvous Entertainment]
* Red Earth – A Malian Journey/Dee Dee Bridgewater [DDB/Emarcy]
* Music Maestro Please/Freddy Cole [HighNote Records]
* Nightmoves/Kurt Elling [Concord Jazz]
* On The Other Side/Tierney Sutton (Band) [Telarc Jazz]
Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
(For an instrumental jazz solo performance. Two equal performers on one recording may be eligible as one entry. If the soloist listed appears on a recording billed to another artist, the latter’s name is in parentheses for identification. Singles or Tracks only)
* Levees/Terence Blanchard, soloist/Track from: A Tale Of God’s Will (A Requiem For Katrina) [Blue Note]
* Anagram/Michael Brecker, soloist/Track from: Pilgrimage [Heads Up International]
* Both Sides Now/Herbie Hancock, soloist/Track from: River: The Joni Letters [Verve]
* Lullaby/Hank Jones, soloist/Track from: Kids: Live At Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (Joe Lovano and Hank Jones)[Blue Note]
* 1000 Kilometers/Paul McCandless, soloist/Track from: 1000 Kilometers (Oregon) [CamJazz]
Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks)
* Pilgrimage/Michael Brecker [Heads Up International]
* Live At The Village Vanguard/The Bill Charlap Trio [Blue Note]
* Kids: Live At Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola/Joe Lovano And Hank Jones
[Blue Note]
* Line By Line/John Patitucci [Concord Jazz]
* Back East/Joshua Redman [Nonesuch Records]
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album (For large jazz ensembles, including big band sounds. Albums must contain 51% or more INSTRUMENTAL tracks)
* A Tale Of God’s Will (A Requiem For Katrina)/Terence Blanchard
[Blue Note]
* Eternal Licks & Grooves/The Bob Florence Limited Edition
[MAMA Records]
* Hommage/The Bill Holman Band
[Jazzed Media]
* Sky Blue/Maria Schneider Orchestra
[ArtistShare]
* With Love/Charles Tolliver Big Band [Blue Note]
Best Latin Jazz Album (Vocal or Instrumental)
* Funk Tango/Paquito D’Rivera Quintet? [Paquito Records]
* The Magician/Sammy Figueroa And His Latin Jazz Explosion [Savant Records]
* Borrowed Time/Steve Khan [Tone Center Records]
* Refugee/Hector Martignon [Zoho]
* Big Band Urban Folktales/Bobby Sanabria Big Band [Jazzheads]
