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| Maria Schneider Orchestra -- Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album (Thompson Fields) |
© Andrea Canter
Although Jazz has been rarely high profile among
Grammy nominations, awards or the televised awards program (save Esperanza Spalding's
surprise win as Best New Artist), there are a number of jazz and jazz-related categories,
and again, the 2016 nominations reflect a broad cross-section of jazz artists
appearing in both jazz and not-really-jazz categories. And sometimes the
definitions of categories seem a bit blurry, which perhaps works to the
advantage of artists like Tonny Bennett and Bill Charlap, nominated for
"Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album."
There are some Minnesota connections: Notably Minnesota
native Maria Schneider, whose music received three nominations, along with 2015
visitors, Bettye Lavette, Bill Frisell, Karrin Allyson, Cecile McLorin Salvant,
Eliane Elias, Terence Blanchard, Bob Mintzer and Jamison Ross.
The 2016 nominations of jazz artists, or artists
often associated with jazz music, include:
Best Traditional Pop
Vocal Album
• The Silver Lining: The Songs Of Jerome Kern, Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap [RPM Records/Columbia Records]
• The Silver Lining: The Songs Of Jerome Kern, Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap [RPM Records/Columbia Records]
Best Contemporary
Instrumental Album
• Guitar In The Space Age!, Bill Frisell [Okeh]
• Afrodeezia, Marcus Miller [Blue Note Records]
• Sylva, Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest [Impulse!]
• The Gospel According To Jazz, Chapter IV, Kirk Whalum [Mack Avenue Records]
• Guitar In The Space Age!, Bill Frisell [Okeh]
• Afrodeezia, Marcus Miller [Blue Note Records]
• Sylva, Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest [Impulse!]
• The Gospel According To Jazz, Chapter IV, Kirk Whalum [Mack Avenue Records]
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| John Scofield |
Best Improvised Jazz
Solo
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Giant Steps,"
Joey Alexander, My Favorite Things [Motema
Music]
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"Cherokee,"
Christian McBride, Live At The Village
Vanguard (Christian McBride Trio) [Mack Avenue Records]
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"Arbiters
Of Evolution," Donny McCaslin, The
Thompson Fields (Maria Schneider Orchestra) [ArtistShare]
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"Friend Or
Foe," Joshua Redman, The Bad Plus
Joshua Redman [Nonesuch]
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"Past
Present," John Scofield, Past Present
[Impulse!]
Best Jazz Vocal
Album
·
Many A New Day: Karrin Allyson Sings Rodgers &
Hammerstein, Karrin Allyson [Motema
Music]
·
Find A Heart,
Denise Donatelli [Savant Records]
·
Flirting With Disaster, Lorraine
Feather [Jazzed Media]
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Jamison,
Jamison Ross [Concord
Jazz]
·
For One To Love, Cécile McLorin Salvant [Mack
Avenue Records]
Best Jazz
Instrumental Album
·
My Favorite Things, Joey Alexander [Motema Music]
·
Breathless, Terence
Blanchard Featuring The E-Collective [Blue Note Records]
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Covered: Recorded Live At Capitol Studios, Robert Glasper & The Robert Glasper Trio [Blue
Note Records]
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Beautiful Life, Jimmy Green [Mack
Avenue Records]
·
Past Present,
John Scofield [Impulse!]
Best Large Jazz
Ensemble Album
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Lines Of Color, Gil Evans Project [Blue Note/ArtistShare]
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Köln,
Marshall Gilkes & WDR Big Band [Alternate Side Records]
·
Cuba: The
Conversation Continues, Arturo
O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, [Motema Music]
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The Thompson Fields, Maria Schneider Orchestra [ArtistShare]
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Home Suite Home, Patrick Williams [BFM Jazz]
Best Latin Jazz
Album
·
Made In Brazil, Eliane Elias [Concord
Jazz]
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Impromptu,
The Rodriguez Brothers [Criss Cross Jazz]
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Suite Caminos, Gonzalo Rubalcaba [5Passion]
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Intercambio, Wayne
Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet [Patois Records]
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Identities Are Changeable, Miguel Zenón [Miel Music]
Best Instrumental
Composition
·
"The Afro
Latin Jazz Suite,"Arturo O'Farrill, composer, Cuba: The Conversation Continues, Arturo
O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Featuring Rudresh Mahanthappa [Motema
Music]
·
"Civil War,"
Bob Mintzer, composer, Get Up, Bob
Mintzer Big Band [MCG Jazz]
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"Confetti
Man," David Balakrishnan, composer, Confetti
Man, Turtle Island Quartet [Azica Records]
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"Neil,"
Rich DeRosa, composer, Lab 2015, University
Of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band [North Texas Jazz]
·
"Vesper,"
Marshall Gilkes, composer, Köln, Marshall
Gilkes & WDR Big Band [Alternate Side Records]
Best Arrangement/Instrumental or A Cappella
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"Ghost Of A
Chance," Bob James, arranger, The
New Cool, Bob James & Nathan East)
[Yamaha Entertainment Group Of America]
·
"You And
The Night And The Music," John Fedchock, arranger, Like It Is, John Fedchock
New York Big Band [Mama Records]
Best Arrangement,
Instruments and Vocals
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"Be My Muse,"
Shelly Berg, arranger, Flirting With
Disaster (Lorraine Feather)
[Jazzed Media]
[Jazzed Media]
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"52nd &
Broadway", Patrick Williams, arranger, Home
Suite Home (Patrick Williams Featuring Patti Austin) [BFM Jazz]
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"Garota De Ipanema,"
Otmaro Ruiz, arranger, Catina DeLuna
Featuring Otmaro Ruiz [Cantina De Luna]
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"Sue (Or In
A Season Of Crime)", Maria
Schneider, arranger, Nothing Has Changed (David
Bowie) [Legacy/Columbia]
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"When I
Come Home," Jimmy Greene, arranger, Beautiful
Life (Jimmy Greene With Javier Colon) [Mack Avenue Records]
Best Historical Album
·
The Complete Concert By The Sea (Errol Garner), Geri Allen, Jocelyn Arem & Steve
Rosenthal, compilation producers; Jessica Thompson, mastering engineer [Columbia/Legacy]
Best Music Film
·
What Happened, Miss Simone? (Nina Simone), Liz Garbus, video director; Liz Garbus, Amy
Hobby, Jayson Jackson & Justin Wilkes, video producers [Netflix]
The complete list of Grammy nominations can be found at http://www.eonline.com/news/721799/2016-grammy-awards-complete-list-of-nominations
