# Jazz, soul and blues musicians nominated at the 2020 Grammy’s: Video, Photos

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2019/11/22/jazz-soul-and-blues-musicians-nominated-at-the-2020-grammys-video-photos/
- Published: 2019-11-22T00:43:38+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**The nominations are out for the 62nd Grammy Awards including a number of jazz,
soul and blues artists on the list… **

Gary Clark Jr. has picked up four nominations for his album ‘This Land’, a politically
charged project actively calling out racism in modern America. Bassist and singer
Esperanza Spalding is nominated in the best arrangement category and her album ‘
12 Little Spells’ is up for best jazz vocal album, where she’s alongside Jazzmeia
Horn, Catherine Russell, Sara Gazarek and Tierney Sutton. Saxophonist Branford Marsalis
and bassist Christian McBride are both up for best improvised jazz solo and best
jazz instrumental album, they’re up against Joey DeFrancesco, Brad Mehldau and Joshua
Redman. Chick Corea is nominated for best Latin Jazz album and Britain’s own Jacob
Collier has two nominations this time for his arrangements on the current Djesse
album, and finally ‘Birth of the Cool’ – the recent Miles Davis documentary – is
up for best music film.

The highlighted list of jazz, soul and blues nominees is as follows:

**Best Contemporary Instrumental Album**
 •    ANCESTRAL RECALL – Christian Scott
aTunde Adjuah •    STAR PEOPLE NATION – Theo Croker •    BEAT MUSIC! BEAT MUSIC!
BEAT MUSIC! – Mark Guiliana •    ELEVATE – Lettuce •    METTAVOLUTION – Rodrigo 
y Gabriela

**Best Traditional R&B Performance**
 •    TIME TODAY – BJ The Chicago Kid •    
STEADY LOVE – India.Arie •    JEROME – Lizzo •    REAL GAMES – Lucky Daye •    BUILT
FOR LOVE – PJ Morton Featuring Jazmine Sullivan

**Best Improvised Jazz Solo**
 •    ELSEWHERE – Melissa Aldana, soloist •    SOZINHO–
Randy Brecker, soloist •    TOMORROW IS THE QUESTION – Julian Lage, soloist •   
THE WINDUP – Branford Marsalis, soloist •    SIGHTSEEING – Christian McBride, soloist

**Best Jazz Vocal Album**
 •    THIRSTY GHOST – Sara Gazarek •    LOVE & LIBERATION–
Jazzmeia Horn •    ALONE TOGETHER – Catherine Russell •    12 LITTLE SPELLS – Esperanza
Spalding •    SCREENPLAY – The Tierney Sutton Band

**Best Jazz Instrumental Album**
 •    IN THE KEY OF THE UNIVERSE – Joey DeFrancesco•
THE SECRET BETWEEN THE SHADOW AND THE SOUL – Branford Marsalis Quartet •    CHRISTIAN
MCBRIDE’S NEW JAWN – Christian McBride •    FINDING GABRIEL – Brad Mehldau •    
COME WHAT MAY – Joshua Redman Quartet

**Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album**
 •    TRIPLE HELIX – Anat Cohen Tentet •    DANCER
IN NOWHERE – Miho Hazama •    HIDING OUT – Mike Holober & The Gotham Jazz Orchestra•
THE OMNI-AMERICAN BOOK CLUB – Brian Lynch Big Band •    ONE DAY WONDER – Terraza
Big Band

**Best Latin Jazz Album**
 •    ANTIDOTE – Chick Corea & The Spanish Heart Band •
SORTE!: MUSIC BY JOHN FINBURY – Thalma de Freitas With Vitor Gonçalves, John Patitucci,
Chico Pinheiro, Rogerio Boccato & Duduka Da Fonseca •    UNA NOCHE CON RUBÉN BLADES–
Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis & Rubén Blades •    CARIB –
David Sánchez •    SONERO: THE MUSIC OF ISMAEL RIVERA – Miguel Zenón

**Best Contemporary Blues Album**
 •    THIS LAND – Gary Clark Jr. •    VENOM & 
FAITH – Larkin Poe •    BRIGHTER DAYS – Robert Randolph & The Family Band •    SOMEBODY
SAVE ME – Sugaray Rayford •    KEEP ON – Southern Avenue

**Best World Music Album**
 •    GECE – Altin Gün •    WHAT HEAT – Bokanté & Metropole
Orkest Conducted By Jules Buckley •    AFRICAN GIANT – Burna Boy •    FANM D’AYITI–
Nathalie Joachim With Spektral Quartet •    CELIA – Angelique Kidjo

**Best Instrumental Composition**
 •    BEGIN AGAIN – Fred Hersch, composer (Fred
Hersch & The WDR Big Band Conducted By Vince Mendoza) •    CRUCIBLE FOR CRISIS –
Brian Lynch, composer (Brian Lynch Big Band) •    LOVE, A BEAUTIFUL FORCE – Vince
Mendoza, composer (Vince Mendoza, Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts & Temple University
Studio Orchestra) •    STAR WARS: GALAXY’S EDGE SYMPHONIC SUITE – John Williams,
composer (John Williams) •    WALKIN’ FUNNY – Christian McBride, composer (Christian
McBride)

**Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella**
 •    BLUE SKIES – Kris Bowers,
arranger (Kris Bowers) •    HEDWIG’S THEME – John Williams, arranger (Anne-Sophie
Mutter & John Williams) •    LA NOVENA – Emilio Solla, arranger (Emilio Solla Tango
Jazz Orchestra) •    LOVE, A BEAUTIFUL FORCE – Vince Mendoza, arranger (Vince Mendoza,
Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts & Temple University Studio Orchestra) •    MOON RIVER–
Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier)

**Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals**
 •    ALL NIGHT LONG – Jacob Collier,
arranger (Jacob Collier Featuring Jules Buckley, Take 6 & Metropole Orkest) •   
JOLENE – Geoff Keezer, arranger (Sara Gazarek) •    MARRY ME A LITTLE – Cyrille 
Aimée & Diego Figueiredo, arrangers (Cyrille Aimée) •    OVER THE RAINBOW – Vince
Mendoza, arranger (Trisha Yearwood) •    12 LITTLE SPELLS (THORACIC SPINE) – Esperanza
Spalding, arranger (Esperanza Spalding)

**Best Music Video**
 •    THIS LAND – Gary Clark Jr. Savanah Leaf, video director;
Jason Cole, Danielle Hinde & Alicia Martinez, video producers

**Best Music Film**
 •    BIRTH OF THE COOL – (Miles Davis) Stanley Nelson, video
director; Nicole London, video producer

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