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Grammy Winners 2017 - Jazz List

Source: All About Jazz
February 13, 2017
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And the winners of the 59th Annual Grammy Awards are...

JAZZ

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album:

Culcha Vulcha

Snarky Puppy

band / ensemble / orchestra

" data-original-title="" title="">Snarky Puppy (Ground Up Music)

Human Nature —

Herb Alpert

trumpet
b.1935

" data-original-title="" title="">Herb Alpert (Herb Alpert Presents)
When You Wish Upon A Star —

Bill Frisell

guitar, electric
b.1951

" data-original-title="" title="">Bill Frisell (Okeh Records)
Way Back Home: Live From Rochester, NY—

Steve Gadd

drums
b.1945

" data-original-title="" title="">Steve Gadd (BFM Jazz)
Unspoken —

Chuck Loeb

guitar
1955 - 2017

" data-original-title="" title="">Chuck Loeb (Shanachie Entertainment)

Best Improvised Jazz Solo:

“I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”

John Scofield

guitar
b.1951

" data-original-title="" title="">John Scofield

“Countdown” —

Joey Alexander

piano
b.2003

" data-original-title="" title="">Joey Alexander
“In Movement” —

Ravi Coltrane

saxophone, tenor
b.1965

" data-original-title="" title="">Ravi Coltrane
“We See” —

Fred Hersch

piano
b.1955

" data-original-title="" title="">Fred Hersch
“I Concentrate On You” —

Brad Mehldau

piano
b.1970

" data-original-title="" title="">Brad Mehldau

Best Jazz Vocal Album:

Take Me To The Alley

Gregory Porter

vocals
b.1971

" data-original-title="" title="">Gregory Porter

Sound Of Red — René Marie
Upward Spiral —

Branford Marsalis

saxophone
b.1960

" data-original-title="" title="">Branford Marsalis Quartet With Special Guest

Kurt Elling

vocals
b.1967

" data-original-title="" title="">Kurt Elling
Harlem On My Mind —

Catherine Russell

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Catherine Russell
The Sting Variations — The

Tierney Sutton

vocals
b.1963

" data-original-title="" title="">Tierney Sutton Band

Best Jazz Instrumental Album:

Country For Old Men
John Scofield

Book Of Intuition —

Kenny Barron

piano
b.1943

" data-original-title="" title="">Kenny Barron Trio
Dr. Um —

Peter Erskine

drums
b.1954

" data-original-title="" title="">Peter Erskine
Sunday Night At The Vanguard — The Fred Hersch Trio
Nearness —

Joshua Redman

saxophone
b.1969

" data-original-title="" title="">Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album:

Presidential Suite: Eight Variations On Freedom

Ted Nash

saxophone
b.1960

" data-original-title="" title="">Ted Nash Big Band

Real Enemies —

Darcy James Argue

composer / conductor
b.1975

" data-original-title="" title="">Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
Presents Monk’estra, Vol. 1 —

John Beasley

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">John Beasley
Kaleidoscope Eyes: Music Of The Beatles —

John Daversa

trumpet
b.1972

" data-original-title="" title="">John Daversa
All L.A. Band —

Bob Mintzer

saxophone
b.1953

" data-original-title="" title="">Bob Mintzer

Best Latin Jazz Album

Tribute To Irakere: Live In Marciac

Chucho Valdes

piano
b.1941

" data-original-title="" title="">Chucho Valdes

Entre Colegas —

Andy Gonzalez

bass, acoustic
1951 - 2020

" data-original-title="" title="">Andy Gonzalez
Madera Latino: A Latin Jazz Perspective On The Music Of Woody Shaw —

Brian Lynch

trumpet
b.1956

" data-original-title="" title="">Brian Lynch & Various Artists
Canto América —

Michael Spiro

percussion

" data-original-title="" title="">Michael Spiro/

Wayne Wallace

trombone
b.1952

" data-original-title="" title="">Wayne Wallace La Orquesta Sinfonietta
30 —

Trio Da Paz

band / ensemble / orchestra

" data-original-title="" title="">Trio Da Paz

MUSIC FOR VISUAL MEDIA

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media:

“Miles Ahead”
(

" data-original-title="" title="">Miles Davis & Various Artists)

“Amy” — (Various Artists)
“Straight Outta Compton” — (Various Artists)
“Suicide Squad” (Collector’s Edition) — (Various Artists)
“Vinyl: The Essentials Season 1” — (Various Artists)

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