Penghargaan tahunan Grammy Award yang akan diselenggarakan pada bulan Februari 2002 sudah mengumkan para nominasinya pada 4 Januari 2002 kemarin. seperti tahun-tahun sebelumnya Grammy Award ke 44 inipun kategori untuk jazz masih diadakan, yang menarik adalah untuk beberapa kategori pop ada beberapa artis jazz yang masuk ke nominasi itu, berikut ini para nominasi dari kategori jazz:
Best Pop Instrumental Perfomance :
– Larry Carlton & Steve Lukather : “Room 335′ (album No Substitutions “Live In Osaka”)
– Kirk Whalum : “There You’ll Be” (album Unconditional).
Best Pop Instrumental Album :
– Acoustic Alchemy : Aart
– Larry Carlton & Steve Lukather : No Substitutions ” Live In Osaka”
– Dave Koz & Friends : A Smooth Jazz Christmas
– Neal Schon : Voice – Kirk Whalum : Unconditional.
Best Contemporary Jazz Album :
– Dennis Chambers, Tony MacAlpine, Brian Auger & Bunny Brunel : Cab 2
– Bill Evans : Soul Insider
– Russell Gunn : Ethnomusicology, Vol. 2
– Marcus Miller : M2
– Mike Stern : Voices.
Best Jazz Vocal Album:
– Mose Allison : The Mose Chronicles “Live In London, Vol. 1”
– Karrin Allyson : Ballads “Remembering John Coltrane”
– Kurt Elling : Flirting With Twilight
– Shirley Horn : You’re My Thrill
– Dianne Reeves : The Calling.
Best Jazz Instrumental Solo:
– Kenny Barron & Regina Carter : “Fragile” (album Freefall)
– Terence Blanchard : “Lost In A Fog” (album Let’s Get Lost)
– Michael Brecker : “Chan’s Song” (album Nearness Of You – The Ballad Book)
– Gary Burton : “Move” (album For Hamp, Red, Bags, and Cal)
– Pat Martino : “All Blues” (album Live At Yoshi’s).
Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group:
– Stefon Harris & Jacky Terrasson : Kindred
– Roy Haynes with Dave Holland, Roy Hargrove, Dave Kikoski & Kenny Garrett : Birds Of A Feather “A Tribute To Charlie Parker”
– Dave Holland Quintet : Not For Nothin’
– Pat Martino : Live At Yoshi’s
– Sonny Rollins : This Is What I Do.
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album:
– Eliane Elias, Bob Brookmeyer & The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra : Impulsive!
– Rob McConnell Tentet : Rob McConnell Tentet
– Jim McNeely Tentet : Group Therapy; Bob Mintzer Big Band “Homage To Count Basie”
– Nicholas Payton : Dear Louis.
Best Latin Jazz Album:
– Charlie Haden : Nocturne
– Los Hombres Calientes : Vol. 3 “New Congo Square”
– Gonzalo Rubalcaba Trio : Supernova
– David Sanchez : Travesia
– Various : Calle 54.
Best Historical Album:
– Last Day: The Complete Billied Holiday On Columbia 1933 – 1944
– Charlie Parker: The Complte Savoy And Dial Studio Recordings 1944- 1948.
Best Instrumental Compositon:
– John Patitucci : “Communion” (album Communion).
Best Instrumental Arrangement:
– Lalo Schifrin – “Scheherazade Fantasy” (album Intersections “Jazz Meets The Symphony #5)
– Bob Florence & The SWR Big Band – “Take The “A” Train” (album Goldener Meilenstein).
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists:
– Kurt Elling & Laurence Hobgood, arrangers (Kurt Elling) : “Easy Living” (album Flirting With Twilight)
– Billy Childs, arranger (Dianne Reeves) : “Fascinating Rhythm” (album The Calling “Celebrating Sarah Vaughan”)
– Claus Ogerman, arranger (Diana Krall) : “Love Letters” (album The Look Of Love)
– Johnny Mandel, arranger (Shirley Horn) : ‘You’re My Thrill” (album You’re My Thrill).
Jika pada Grammy Award tahun lalu label yang bersaing mendapat penghargaan terbanyak dalam kategory jazz adalah Bluenote dan Warner Bross, pada tahun ini sepertinya didominasi oleh label Concord dan afiliasinya.
