Improvised jazz solo: Chick Corea – 500 Miles High
Jazz vocal album: Terri Lyne Carrington & Various Artists – The Mosaic Project
Jazz instrumental album: Corea, Clarke & White – Forever
Large jazz ensemble album: Christian McBride Big Band – The Good Feeling
Grammys tune out the best improvised jazz solos
The Grammys don’t know jazz.
Nowhere is this more evident, year after year, than in the award for best improvised jazz solo. Because most Grammy voters probably don’t spend much time thinking about what constitutes an exceptional solo, the same figures get honored year after year. The choices are safe, and they’re the biggest names in jazz.
Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis, and Oscar Peterson have each won that award three times. Michael Brecker won it an astounding six times. If the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences is to be believed, these four folks have recorded nearly half of the best solos in jazz since 1977.
Read the full article @: Grammys tune out the best improvised jazz solos Steve Greenlee BOSTON.COM
