2010 Grammy Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Nominees
The 2010 Grammy Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Nominees is a really interesting category. A couple of the nominees are so obscure that they aren’t available on Amazon.com which makes it a little tougher for me to check them out. My favorite story in this category is the “Lab 2009″ by University Of North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band . This is actually a class project that got nominated for a Grammy award! Thats gotta get you a decent mark. So without further the 2010 Grammy Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Nominees are:
2010 Grammy Best Jazz Instrumental Album Nominees
It’s Grammy time of year and so this morning I’ve been looking over the 2010 Grammy Best Jazz Instrumental Album Award Nominees. Here is the list for your enjoyment along with Amazon.com widgets to hear the previews.
| Quartet Live Gary Burton Pat Metheny Steve Swallow & Antonio Sanchez [Concord Jazz]  |
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| Brother To Brother Clayton Brothers [ArtistShare]  |
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| Five Peace Band – Live Chick Corea & John McLaughlin Five Peace Band [Concord Records]  |
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| Remembrance John Patitucci Trio [Concord Jazz]  |
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| The Bright Mississippi Allen Toussaint [Nonesuch]  |
2010 Grammy Best Improvised Jazz Solo Performance Nominees
Click the button on this widget to hear previews of the nominees:
The category of Improvised Jazz Solo Performance is a great one as it gives us an intimate look at an artist, who may not even be the headliner, in thier element. My favorite in this category is Dancin’ 4 Chicken where Terence Blanchard shows his immense drumming talent. I was already familiar with Terence’s immense talent from the highly recommended DVD Branford Marsalis’ Quintet Coltrane’s A Love Supreme
So without further ado the nominiees for Improvised Jazz Solo Performance are:
Dancin’ 4 Chicken
Terence Blanchard, soloist
Track from: Watts (Jeff “Tain” Watts), [Dark Key Music]
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: Martial Solal Live At The Village Vanguard, [CamJazz]
Villa Palmeras
Miguel Zenón, soloist
Track from: Esta Plena, [Marsalis Music]
Thanks for coming by and reading.
2010 Grammy Best Jazz Vocal Album Nominees
For those of you following the Grammy awards here are the Grammy best jazz vocal album nominees for 2010 along with MP3 previews:
No Regrets, Randy Crawford (& Joe Sample), [PRA Records]
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So In Love, Roberta Gambarini,[Groovin' High/Emarcy]
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| Tide, Luciana Souza, [Verve]
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| Desire, Tierney Sutton (Band), [Telarc Jazz]
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| Dedicated To You: Kurt Elling Sings The Music Of Coltrane And Hartman, Kurt Elling, [Concord Jazz] 
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Idle Words – Jazz Standards of the Future
This week I had the pleasure of e-meeting the members of Idle Words, Tom Medhurst and Jenifer Wren, a wonderful jazz duo out of Berkshire, England. I was impressed with the music and also the groups lofty goals. I just have to pass this piece of prose right from Tom on.
“Our mission is to continue music where it left off in the 1940s and to introduce new Jazz standards to be remembered for centuries to come!
Our sound is a mixture of traditional 1920/30/40s Jazz, Gypsy Jazz, Swing, Folk, Blues, and Modern Jazz.
We believe our music would be enjoyed by fans of: Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, The Spirits of Rhythm (my personal favourite!), Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Madeline Payroux, and Julie London.”
Now those are lofty goals but you know what, I believe they have a shot at it. Strong words but you know I don’t think I can defend them as well as this duo speaks for themselves.
Let’s start with an Idle Words performance of the jazz classic “All of Me” written by Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons in 1931 and recorded since by such greats as Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Mildred Bailey, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Frankie Laine, Della Reese, Johnnie Ray, Django Reinhardt, Willie Nelson and Michael Bublé.
Right, remember Tom and Jenifer’s words “to continue music where it left off in the 1940s”. I think they pretty much nailed that one don’t you? So the second part of that was “and to introduce new Jazz standards to be remembered for centuries to come”. That’s a little tougher but here is a 2 year old video of Idle Words:
That song, “Watermelon Happy”, is on Idle Words’ first album entitled “Songs for Summertime”. It’s a fine performance and a great piece of music writing in my opinion. Songs of Summertime is all original material and with that as a starting point I think this is a group you’ll hear a lot more from.
Well one more thing, for a limited time I’m sure, Idle Words is offering a free MP3 song download if you sign up for their mailing list on their website at http://gallery.idle-words.co.uk. So please go and sign up and check out all of their tunes. Pick up a CD, I’m sure that would make them happy. Let them know TheWorldofJazz.com sent you. Idle Words can be found on the internet via the following links.
Myspace at http://www.myspace.com/idlewordsjazz
Twitter at http://twitter.com/idlewords
Internet site http://www.idlewords.co.uk/