Also nominated are Pablo Aslan, Hector Martignon, Pancho Sanchez, and the Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet. Three-time Grammy Award winner Chucho Valdes returns to the Best Latin Jazz Album category with Chucho’s Steps, featuring his band The Afro-Cuban Messengers. Last December, Moody succumbed to pancreatic cancer at age 85.įive big bands are competing for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, including the Dave Holland Octet, John Scofield and Vince Mendoza, Mingus Big Band, Billy Childs Ensemble, featuring The Ying String Quartet, and Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society. Winner or not at the upcoming Grammy Awards, saxophonist James Moody will always be remembered for his timeless composition “Moody’s Mood For Love,” elected into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. In the Best Jazz Instrumental Album by an Individual or Group category, the nominees are The Clayton Brothers’ The New Song And Dance, John Beasley’s Positootly!, The Vijay Iyer Trio for Historicity, Danilo Perez’s Providencia, and the late James Moody for Moody 4A. The other nominees include Keith Jarrett, Wynton Marsalis, Alan Broadbent, and the late Hank Jones. This year, Hancock earned a Grammy nomination for Best Improvised Jazz Solo, “A Change Is Gonna Come,” from his album The Imagine Project, and featuring vocalist James Morrison. Pianist, composer and arranger Herbie Hancock is one of jazz music’s most honored players, having won 12 Grammy Awards, an NEA Jazz Masters Award, an Oscar, and numerous others. The Jeff Lorber Fusion's Rain Dance/Wanna Fly from Now Is The Time, is also competing with jazz organist Joey DeFrancesco’s Never Can Say Goodbye - A Tribute To Michael Jackson, and Trombone Shorty for Backatown. Three of the greatest names in jazz fusion: John McLaughlin, Stanley Clarke and Jeff Lorber - are in the running for Best Contemporary Jazz Album. The 53nd Annual Grammy Awards will be held in Los Angeles, California on February 13.
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