50th Annual Grammy Awards Nominations

[HolyStitt]

I will skip the "big names" and list the Jazz and Blues Nominations. Feel free to list more of the nominations categories.

Field 10 — Jazz

Category 45

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]

Category 46

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]

Category 47

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 parenthesis 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]

Category 48

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]

Category 49

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]

Category 50

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]

[HolyStitt]

Field 13 — Blues

Category 66

Best Traditional Blues Album

(Vocal or Instrumental.)

Pinetop Perkins On The 88's - Live In Chicago

Pinetop Perkins

[sagebrush Productions/Vizztone Label Group]

Live...And In Concert From San Francisco

Otis Rush

[blues Express, Inc.]

10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads

Kenny Wayne Shepherd Featuring Various Artists

[Reprise Records]

Old School

Koko Taylor

[Alligator Records]

Last Of The Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas

Henry James Townsend, Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins, Robert Lockwood, Jr. & David

"Honeyboy" Edwards

[The Blue Shoe Project]

Category 67

Best Contemporary Blues Album

(Vocal or Instrumental.)

Into The Blues

Joan Armatrading

[429 Records]

Is It News

Doyle Bramhall

[Yep Roc Records]

The Road To Escondido

JJ Cale & Eric Clapton

[Reprise Records/Warner Music Group]

Truth

Robben Ford

[Concord Records]

The Scene Of The Crime

Bettye LaVette

[Anti]

[HolyStitt]

I am rooting for Bettye LaVette's The Scene Of The Crime for Best Contemporary Blues Album.

Last night, at the concert at the Dakota, she said if she was nominated it would be the first time she was ever up for a Grammy and that the only award she has ever won was a W.C. Handy Award for A Woman Like Me.

[B. Clugston]

Zzzzzz.

(But I hope Tolliver wins.)

[Christiern]

There's a message in the following, as it were...

Category 79

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling)

* The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream

Barack Obama

[Random House Audio]

* Celebrations

Maya Angelou

[Random House Audio]

* Giving: How Each Of Us Can Change The World

Bill Clinton

[Random House Audio]

* Sunday Mornings In Plains: Bringing Peace To A Changing World

Jimmy Carter

[simon & Schuster Audio]

* Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself

Alan Alda

[Random House Audio]