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46th Annual GRAMMY Awards Final Nominations List

http://www.grammy.com/awards/grammy/46noms.txt

Field 10 — Jazz

Category 46

Best Contemporary Jazz Album

(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

34th N Lex

Randy Brecker

[ESC Records]

Rural Renewal

The Crusaders

[Verve/PRA Records]

Sonic Trance

Nicholas Payton

[Warner Bros. Records]

Timeagain

David Sanborn

[Verve Records]

Time Squared

Yellowjackets

[Heads Up International]

Category 47

Best Jazz Vocal Album

(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

Man In The Air

Kurt Elling

[blue Note Records]

May The Music Never End

Shirley Horn

[Verve Records]

Nature Boy - The Standards Album

Aaron Neville

[Verve Records]

A Little Moonlight

Dianne Reeves

[blue Note Records]

North And South

Luciana Souza

[sunnyside]

Category 48

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.)

Matrix

Chick Corea, soloist

Track from: Rendezvous In New York

[stretch Records]

All Or Nothing At All

Joey DeFrancesco, soloist

Track from: Falling In Love Again

[Concord Jazz]

Butch & Butch

Keith Jarrett, soloist

Track from: Up For It (Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette)

[ECM Records]

Africa

Pat Martino, soloist

Track from: Think Tank

[blue Note Records]

All Or Nothing At All

Mike Melvoin, soloist

Track from: It's Always You

[City Light]

Category 49

Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group

(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

Rendezvous In New York

Chick Corea

[stretch Records]

The Grand Unification Theory

Stefon Harris

[blue Note Records]

Extended Play, Live At Birdland

Dave Holland Quintet

[ECM Records]

Think Tank

Pat Martino

[blue Note Records]

Alegría

Wayne Shorter

[Verve Records]

Category 50

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

(For large jazz ensembles, including big band sounds. Albums must contain 51% or more INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

You Call This A Living?

Wayne Bergeron Big Band

[Wag Wecords]

Looking For America

The Carla Bley Big Band

[Watt Works/ECM Records]

Wide Angles

Michael Brecker Quindectet

[Verve Records]

XXL

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

[silverline]

New York New Sound

Gerald Wilson Orchestra

[Mack Avenue Records]

Category 51

Best Latin Jazz Album

(Vocal or Instrumental.)

Cuban Odyssey

Jane Bunnett

[blue Note Records/EMI Music Canada]

Live At The Blue Note

Michel Camilo With Charles Flores & Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez

[Telarc]

Birds Of A Feather

Caribbean Jazz Project

[Concord Picante]

Isla

Mark Levine & The Latin Tinge

[Left Coast Clave]

New Conceptions

Chucho Valdés

[blue Note Records]

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Category 49

Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group

(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

Extended Play, Live At Birdland

Dave Holland Quintet

[ECM Records]

I just picked this up recently and have been listening to it all week. It's a great album, for sure. :tup

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My picks:

46th Annual GRAMMY Awards Final Nominations List

34th N Lex

Randy Brecker

[ESC Records]

May The Music Never End

Shirley Horn

[Verve Records]

Butch & Butch

Keith Jarrett, soloist

Track from: Up For It (Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette)

[ECM Records]

Extended Play, Live At Birdland

Dave Holland Quintet

[ECM Records]

Looking For America

The Carla Bley Big Band

[Watt Works/ECM Records]

Live At The Blue Note

Michel Camilo With Charles Flores & Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez

[Telarc]

Cheers!

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My picks (and slim they are!) as follows, since we're in the spirit (and only in the categories where I've heard any of the albums):

Vocal Jazz: Luciana Souza - North and South

Instrumental solo: Keith Jarrett - "Butch and Butch" (Up For It

Jazz Instrumental Album: Wayne Shorter - Alegria (I would have gone with the Holland disc, but I didn't think it was as ambitious as Alegria, though when you're the Holland Quintet, there's no sense in messing with the old formula! This was a tough call for me...)

Jazz Large Ensemble Album: Gerald Wilson - New York, New Sound

Latin Jazz Ensemble: Chucho Valdes - New Conceptions

That said, why any serious jazz fan would take the Grammys seriously (which we here obviously don't) is far beyond me.

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Anyone heard the Aaron Neville? Is it any good? Big band/orchestral accompaniment? Good or cheesy arrangements? Inquiring minds want to know.

It's ok, I guess. Only listened to it once. What I remember of it was that it was more crooner-type stuff with string accompaniment than "jazz." Neville's voice is pretty good, though.

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Thanks, BW. I was wondering if this was something to check out or if it was just an example of yet another pop star jumping on the standards bandwagon. I like Aaron Neville in the context of the Neville Bros.; it seems like he might make a passable jazz vocalist. OTOH, those Rod Stewart standards CDs just about make me want to yak. But so does everything else he does, so I'm not the most impartial judge.

Let's see- Sting, Melissa Manchester, Toni Tenille, Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Bette Midler, Diana Ross...................who else has ventured into the jazz realm?

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Let's see- Sting, Melissa Manchester, Toni Tenille, Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Bette Midler, Diana Ross...................who else has ventured into the jazz realm?

Deborah Harry (several CD's with the Jazz Passengers).

And I'd also probably argue Elvis Costello (though others will have to cite the specifics).

Oh, and definitely Björk, who did a totally straight-ahead vocal-jazz album with her backed by a very traditional piano trio, singing in English and Iclandic (seriously!), on Gling-Gló in about 1990. Björk has also sung a small handful of big-band tracks over the years, most notably "It's Oh So Quiet" from "Post" in 1995.

And Sinéad O'Connor and her 1992 album "Am I Not Your Girl?", on which she tackles all standards, backed by a big band. I actually really like this album, or at least I did at one time (haven't listened to it in a couple years).

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I remember seeing Sinead on Saturday Night Live once singing in front of a big band, but not a standard. It was very hip, I must say.

Well, they weren't really standard standards, per se -- but tunes that people would know (or at least quite a few of them), so 'standards' in that sense...

1. Why Don't You Do Right? (McCoy) - 2:30

2. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Hart/Rodgers) - 6:15

3. Secret Love (Fain/Webster) - 2:56

4. Black Coffee (Burke/Webster) - 3:21

5. Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home (Mullins/O'Conner Sinéad) - 4:29

6. Don't Cry for Me Argentina (Lloyd Webber/Rice) - 5:39

7. I Want to Be Loved by You (Kalmar/Ruby/Stothart) - 2:45

8. Gloomy Sunday (Javor/Lewis/Seress) - 3:56

9. Love Letters (Heyman/Young) - 3:07

10. How Insensitive (DeMoraes/Gimbel/Jobim) - 3:28

11. Scarlet Ribbons (Danzig/Segal) - 4:14

12. Don't Cry for Me Argentina [instrumental] (Lloyd Webber/Rice) - 5:10

I can't ID where all of these come from originally, but the 'big single' was "Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home", which I vaguely seem to remember was like a minor hit for Dolly Parton (??), though I cannot find any other album with a song of this title, anywhere in the AMG. Anyway, I've always thought of most of these songs as being standards of a sort.

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Thanks, BW. I was wondering if this was something to check out or if it was just an example of yet another pop star jumping on the standards bandwagon. I like Aaron Neville in the context of the Neville Bros.; it seems like he might make a passable jazz vocalist. OTOH, those Rod Stewart standards CDs just about make me want to yak. But so does everything else he does, so I'm not the most impartial judge.

Let's see- Sting, Melissa Manchester, Toni Tenille, Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Bette Midler, Diana Ross...................who else has ventured into the jazz realm?

Michelle Shocked did a swing album back in the early 90s called "Captain Swing" (all originals, no standards). Joe Jackson did a jump blues album. Brian Setzer and David Lee Roth have both covered Louis Prima...

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