Berikut ini adalah beberapa daftar para nominator dan pemenang ajang Grammy Awards ke-53 yang diumumkan dari gedung Staples Center, Los Angeles, Amerika Serikat.
Beberapa hal yang menarik dalam penghargaan kali ini adalah kemenangan Esperanza Spalding, pemain upgright bass dan vokalis yang menjadi Best New Artist mengalahkan bintang pop seperti Justin Bieber. Sementara saxophonis James Moody yang baru tutup usia, berhasil meraih penghargaan untuk kategori Best Jazz Instrumental Album.
Para pemenang ditandai dalam huruf bold dan italic hitam dan berikut daftar lengkap untuk kategori Jazz dan World Music.
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
A Change Is Gonna Come – Herbie Hancock, soloist
Track from: The Imagine Project [Hancock Records]
Solar – Alan Broadbent, soloist
Track from: Live At Giannelli Square: Volume 1 [Chilly Bin 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
Moody 4B – James Moody [IPO Recordings]
Positootly! – John Beasley [Resonance Records]
The New Song And Dance – Clayton Brothers [ArtistShare]
Historicity – Vijay Iyer Trio [ACT Music + Vision]
Providencia – Danilo Perez [Mack Avenue Records]
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Mingus Big Band Live At Jazz Standard – Mingus Big Band [Jazz Workshop, Inc./Jazz Standard]
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]
Best Latin Jazz Album
Chucho’s Steps – Chucho Valdés And The Afro-Cuban Messengers [Four Quarters Entertainment]
Tango Grill – Pablo Aslan [Zoho]
Second Chance – Hector Martignon [Zoho]
Psychedelic Blues – Poncho Sanchez [Concord Picante]
¡Bien Bien! – Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet [Patois Records]
Best New Artist
Esperanza Spalding
Justin Bieber
Drake
Florence and the Machine
Mumford and Sons
Best Traditional World Music Album
Ali And Toumani – Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté [World Circuit/Nonesuch]
Pure Sounds – Gyuto Monks Of Tibet [New Earth Records]
I Speak Fula – Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba [Sub Pop / Next Ambiance]
Grace – Soweto Gospel Choir [Shanachie Entertainment]
Tango Universal – Vayo [Big Dream Music]
Best Contemporary World Music Album
Throw Down Your Heart , Africa Sessions Part 2: Unreleased Tracks – Béla Fleck [Acoustic Planet Records]
All In One – Bebel Gilberto [Verve]
ÕŸÖ – Angelique Kidjo [Razor & Tie Entertainment]
Bom Tempo – Sergio Mendes [Concord Records]
Om Namo Narayanaya: Soul Call – Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon [Soul Chants Music]
