March 29, 2024

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Jazz winners at the 2020 Grammys: Videos, Photo

At last night’s Grammy Awards the five Jazz Category Award winners were:

Best Improvised Jazz Solo

SOZINHO
Randy Brecker (with the NDR Big Band)

Best Jazz Vocal Album

LITTLE SPELLS
Esperanza Spalding

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

FINDING GABRIEL
Brad Mehldau

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

THE OMNI-AMERICAN BOOK CLUB
Brian Lynch Big Band

Best Latin Jazz Album

ANTIDOTE
Chick Corea & The Spanish Heart Band

Jazz-related winners in other categories

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

Jacob Collier, for Moon River

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

All Night Long – Jacob Collier Featuring Jules Buckley, Take 6 & Metropole Orkest

Also, Terence Blanchard won “Best Instrumental Composition for Blut und Boden. Angelique Kidjo won best World Music album. Attacca Quartet received the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for its recording of Caroline Shaw’s Orange, and we were pleased to see just rewards for patient work by a good friend of this site, writer Donald Sturrock, the instigator and librettist of the opera The Fantastic Mr Fox, which won the award for Best Opera.

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