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2021 Jazz GRAMMYs Nominees List



Best Improvised Jazz Solo "Guinevere," Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah, soloist "Pachamama," Regina Carter, soloist "Celia," Gerald Clayton, soloist "All Blues," Chick Corea, soloist "Moe Honk," Joshua Redman, soloist


Best Jazz Vocal Album: Ona, Thana Alexa Secrets Are The Best Stories, Kurt Elling Featuring Danilo Pérez Modern Ancestors, Carmen Lundy Holy Room: Live at Alte Oper, Somi With Frankfurt Radio Big Band What's The Hurry, Kenny Washington


Best Jazz Instrumental Album On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment, Ambrose Akinmusire Waiting Game, Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard, Gerald Clayton Trilogy 2, Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade Roundagain, Redman Mehldau McBride Blade


Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Dialogues on Race, Gregg August Monk'estra Plays John Beasley, John Beasley The Intangible Between, Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band Songs You Like a Lot, John Hollenbeck with Theo Bleckmann, Kate McGarry, Gary Versace and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band Data Lords, Maria Schneider Orchestra


Best Latin Jazz Album Tradiciones, Afro-Peruvian Jazz Orchestra Four Questions, Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra City of Dreams, Chico Pinheiro Viento y Tiempo -- Live at Blue Note Tokyo, Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Aymee Nuviola Trane's Delight, Poncho Sanchez



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