At last night’s Grammy Awards the five Jazz Category Award winners were:
Best Improvised Jazz Solo
SOZINHO
Randy Brecker (with the NDR Big Band)
Best Jazz Vocal Album
LITTLE SPELLS
Esperanza Spalding
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
FINDING GABRIEL
Brad Mehldau
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
THE OMNI-AMERICAN BOOK CLUB
Brian Lynch Big Band
Best Latin Jazz Album
ANTIDOTE
Chick Corea & The Spanish Heart Band
Jazz-related winners in other categories
Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals
Jacob Collier, for Moon River
Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals
All Night Long – Jacob Collier Featuring Jules Buckley, Take 6 & Metropole Orkest
Also, Terence Blanchard won “Best Instrumental Composition for Blut und Boden. Angelique Kidjo won best World Music album. Attacca Quartet received the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for its recording of Caroline Shaw’s Orange, and we were pleased to see just rewards for patient work by a good friend of this site, writer Donald Sturrock, the instigator and librettist of the opera The Fantastic Mr Fox, which won the award for Best Opera.
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