Grammys Time. Just reporting…. The jazz category winners were:

30. Best Improvised Jazz Solo
500 Miles High
Chick Corea, soloist
Track from: Forever (Corea, Clarke & White)
[Concord Records]

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31. Best Jazz Vocal Album
The Mosaic Project
Terri Lyne Carrington & Various Artists
[Concord Jazz]

32. Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Forever
Corea, Clarke & White
[Concord Records]

33. Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
The Good Feeling
Christian McBride Big Band
[Mack Avenue Records]

Looking further up and down the list…..

– Tony Bennett: his Duets II album won in three categories
6. Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (Body And Soul with Amy Winehouse)
11. Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
59. Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) – Arranger Jorge Calandrelli

– Pat Metheny won 29. Best New Age Album for What’s it All About
– Alison Krauss, a headliner at last years LJF, won 44. Best Bluegrass Album for Paper Airplane

–Béla Fleck & Howard Levy won 57. Best Instrumental Composition
for the track Life In Eleven from Rocket Science.

– The Tedeschi Trucks Band, great at 2011 North Sea Jazz, won 45. Best Blues Album for Revelator

–Booker T Jones – who headlined at last year’s Bluesfest London – won 7. Best Pop Instrumental Album for The Road From Memphis

–Manfred Eicher of ECM had received a nomination – for classical producer – but didn’t win.