46th Annual Grammy Award Nominees

Best Contemporary Jazz Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

• 34th N Lex
  Randy Brecker
  [ESC Records]
• Rural Renewal
  The Crusaders
  [Verve/PRA Records]
• Sonic Trance
  Nicholas Payton
  [Warner Bros. Records]
• Timeagain
  David Sanborn
  [Verve Records]
• Time Squared
  Yellowjackets
  [Heads Up International]

Best Jazz Vocal Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

• Man In The Air
  Kurt Elling
  [Blue Note Records]
• May The Music Never End
  Shirley Horn
  [Verve Records]
• Nature Boy - The Standards Album
  Aaron Neville
  [Verve Records]
• A Little Moonlight
  Dianne Reeves
  [Blue Note Records]
• North And South
  Luciana Souza
  [Sunnyside]

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
(For an instrumental jazz solo performance. Two equal performers on one recording may be eligible as one entry. If the soloist listed appears on a recording billed to another artist, the latter's name is in parenthesis for identification. Singles or Tracks only.)

• Matrix
  Chick Corea, soloist
  Track from: Rendezvous In New York
  [Stretch Records]
• All Or Nothing At All
  Joey DeFrancesco, soloist
  Track from: Falling In Love Again
  [Concord Jazz]
• Butch & Butch
  Keith Jarrett, soloist
  Track from: Up For It (Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette)
  [ECM Records]
• Africa
  Pat Martino, soloist
  Track from: Think Tank
  [Blue Note Records]
• All Or Nothing At All
  Mike Melvoin, soloist
  Track from: It's Always You
  [City Light]

Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

• Rendezvous In New York
  Chick Corea
  [Stretch Records]
• The Grand Unification Theory
  Stefon Harris
  [Blue Note Records]
• Extended Play, Live At Birdland
  Dave Holland Quintet
  [ECM Records]
• Think Tank
  Pat Martino
  [Blue Note Records]
• Alegría
  Wayne Shorter
  [Verve Records]

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
(For large jazz ensembles, including big band sounds. Albums must contain 51% or more INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

• You Call This A Living?
  Wayne Bergeron Big Band
  [Wag Wecords]
• Looking For America
  The Carla Bley Big Band
  [Watt Works/ECM Records]
• Wide Angles
  Michael Brecker Quindectet
  [Verve Records]
• XXL
  Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
  [Silverline]
• New York New Sound
  Gerald Wilson Orchestra
  [Mack Avenue Records]

Best Latin Jazz Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)

• Cuban Odyssey
  Jane Bunnett
  [Blue Note Records/EMI Music Canada]
• Live At The Blue Note
  Michel Camilo With Charles Flores & Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez
  [Telarc]
• Birds Of A Feather
  Caribbean Jazz Project
  [Concord Picante]
• Isla
  Mark Levine & The Latin Tinge
  [Left Coast Clave]
• New Conceptions
  Chucho Valdés
  [Blue Note Records]