Ajang penghargaan tertinggi dalam industri musik baru saja mengumumkan para kandidat penerima award. Seperti biasa, dari para nominator tersebut akan diketahui nama pemenang pada awal Januari 2011 mendatang.
Sejumlah nama langganan Grammy terlihat mengantri sebagai calon pemenang namun ikut pula dalam daftar tunggu beberapa nama baru.
Para calon pemenang tersebar dalam beberapa kategori penilaian seperti Best Contemporary Jazz Album, Best Improvised Jazz Solo, Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual Or Group, Best Jazz Vocal Album, Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album dan Best Latin Jazz Album. Setiap album dalam kategori ini telah ditetapkan sebuah ukuran yaitu 51% atau lebih kadar instrumental atau vocalnya sebagai acuan.
Berikut ini daftar lengkap calon penerima Grammy Awards ke 53:
Best Contemporary Jazz Album
The Stanley Clarke Band – The Stanley Clarke Band [Heads Up International] Never Can Say Goodbye – Joey DeFrancesco [HighNote Records] Now Is The Time – Jeff Lorber Fusion [Heads Up International] To The One – John McLaughlin [Abstract Logix] Backatown – Trombone Shorty [Verve Forecast]
Best Jazz Vocal Album
Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee – Dee Dee Bridgewater [Emarcy]
Freddy Cole Sings Mr. B – Freddy Cole [HighNote Records]
When Lights Are Low – Denise Donatelli [Savant Records]
Ages – Lorraine Feather [Jazzed Media]
Water – Gregory Porter [Motéma Music]
Best Improvised Jazz Solo
Solar – Alan Broadbent, soloist
Track from: Live At Giannelli Square: Volume 1 [Chilly Bin Records]
A Change Is Gonna Come – Herbie Hancock, soloist
Track from: The Imagine Project [Hancock Records]
Body And Soul – Keith Jarrett, soloist
Track from: Jasmine [ECM]
Lonely Woman – Hank Jones, soloist
Track from: Pleased To Meet You [Justin Time Records]
Van Gogh – Wynton Marsalis, soloist
Track from: Portrait In Seven Shades (Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra) [Jazz At Lincoln Center]
Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group
Positootly! – John Beasley [Resonance Records]
The New Song And Dance – Clayton Brothers [ArtistShare]
Historicity – Vijay Iyer Trio [ACT Music + Vision]
Moody 4B – James Moody [IPO Recordings]
Providencia – Danilo Perez [Mack Avenue Records]
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Infernal Machines – Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society [New Amsterdam Records] Autumn: In Moving Pictures Jazz – Chamber Music Vol. 2 – Billy Childs Ensemble Featuring The Ying String Quartet [ArtistShare] Pathways – Dave Holland Octet [Dare2 Records] 54 – Metropole Orkest, John Scofield & Vince Mendoza [Emarcy/Universal] Mingus Big Band Live At Jazz Standard – Mingus Big Band [Jazz Workshop, Inc./Jazz Standard]
Best Latin Jazz Album
Tango Grill – Pablo Aslan [Zoho] Second Chance – Hector Martignon [Zoho] Psychedelic Blues – Poncho Sanchez [Concord Picante] Chucho’s Steps – Chucho Valdés And The Afro-Cuban Messengers [Four Quarters Entertainment] ¡Bien Bien! – Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet [Patois Records]
