Best Contemporary Jazz Album • Urbanus Stefon Harris & Blackout [Concord Jazz] • Sounding Point Julian Lage [Emarcy/Decca] • At World's Edge Philippe Saisse [E1 Music] • Big Neighborhood Mike Stern [Heads Up International] • 75 Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate [Heads Up International] WINNER
Category 45 - Best Jazz Vocal Album • No Regrets Randy Crawford (& Joe Sample) [PRA Records] • Dedicated To You: Kurt Elling Sings The Music Of Coltrane And Hartman Kurt Elling [Concord Jazz] WINNER • So In Love Roberta Gambarini [Groovin' High/Emarcy] • Tide Luciana Souza [Verve] • Desire Tierney Sutton (Band) [Telarc Jazz]
Category 46 - Best Improvised Jazz Solo • Dancin' 4 Chicken Terence Blanchard, soloist Track from: Watts (Jeff "Tain" Watts) [Dark Key Music] WINNER• All Of You Gerald Clayton, soloist Track from: Two-Shade [ArtistShare]• Ms. Garvey, Ms. Garvey Roy Hargrove, soloist Track from: Emergence [Groovin' High/Emarcy]• On Green Dolphin Street Martial Solal, soloist Track from: Live At The Village Vanguard[CamJazz]• Villa Palmeras Miguel Zenón, soloist Track from: Esta Plena [Marsalis Music]Field 10 - Jazz Category 47 - Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group• Quartet Live Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Steve Swallow & Antonio Sanchez [Concord Jazz]• Brother To Brother Clayton Brothers [ArtistShare]• Five Peace Band - Live Chick Corea & John McLaughlin Five Peace Band [Concord Records]WINNER• Remembrance John Patitucci Trio [Concord Jazz]• The Bright Mississippi Allen Toussaint [Nonesuch]
Field 10 - Jazz Category 48 - Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album • Legendary Bob Florence Limited Edition [MAMA Records] • Eternal Interlude John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble [Sunnyside] • Fun Time Sammy Nestico And The SWR Big Band [Hänssler Classic] • Book One New Orleans Jazz Orchestra [World Village] WINNER • Lab 2009 University Of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band [North Texas Jazz)Jazz Category 49 - Best Latin Jazz Album• Things I Wanted To Do Chembo Corniel [Chemboro Records]• Áurea Geoffrey Keezer [ArtistShare]• Brazilliance X 4 Claudio Roditi [Resonance Records]• Juntos Para Siempre Bebo Valdés And Chucho Valdés [Sony Music/Calle 54] WINNER• Esta Plena Miguel Zenón [Marsalis Music]