Jazz Winners at the 2022 Grammys

The winners in the four jazz categories were: Chick Corea’s Akoustic Band, Esperanza Spalding, Ron Carter/Jack DeJohnette/Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Eliane Elias/Chick Corea/Chucho Valdés and the Christian McBride Big Band. Full nominee list in these categories and news of other jazz-related categories below…

Chick Corea’s two posthumous wins take him to 27 Grammy wins and into joint fourth place with Alison Krauss in the all-time winners chart..after Georg Solti (31), Beyonce and Quincy Jones (both 28).

(Original source for all the information below)

1. JAZZ CATEGORIES – there are five categories

31. Best Improvised Jazz Solo

• Sackodougou
  Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, soloist
  Track from: The Hands Of Time (Weedie Braimah)
   
• Kick Those Feet
  Kenny Barron, soloist
  Track from: Songs From My Father (Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trios)
   
• Bigger Than Us
  Jon Batiste, soloist
  Track from: Soul (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Various Artists)
   
• Absence
  Terence Blanchard, soloist
  Track from: Absence (Terence Blanchard Featuring The E Collective and The Turtle Island Quartet)
   
• WINNER: Humpty Dumpty (Set 2)
  Chick Corea, soloist
  Track from: Akoustic Band Live (Chick Corea, John Patitucci & Dave Weckl)

32. Best Jazz Vocal Album

• Generations
  The Baylor Project
   
• SuperBlue
  Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter
   
• Time Traveler
  Nnenna Freelon
   
• Flor
  Gretchen Parlato
   
• WINNER: Songwrights Apothecary Lab
  Esperanza Spalding

33. Best Jazz Instrumental Album

• Jazz Selections: Music From And Inspired By Soul
  Jon Batiste
   
• Absence
  Terence Blanchard Featuring The E Collective And The Turtle Island Quartet
   
• WINNER: Skyline
  Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette & Gonzalo Rubalcaba
   
• Akoustic Band LIVE
  Chick Corea, John Patitucci & Dave Weckl
   
• Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV)
  Pat Metheny

34. Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

• Live At Birdland!
  The Count Basie Orchestra Directed By Scotty Barnhart
   
• Dear Love
  Jazzmeia Horn And Her Noble Force
   
• WINNER: For Jimmy, Wes And Oliver
  Christian McBride Big Band
   
• Swirling
  Sun Ra Arkestra
   
• Jackets XL
  Yellowjackets + WDR Big Band

35. Best Latin Jazz Album

• WINNER: Mirror Mirror
  Eliane Elias With Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés
   
• The South Bronx Story
  Carlos Henriquez
   
• Virtual Birdland
  Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
   
• Transparency
  Dafnis Prieto Sextet
   
• El Arte Del Bolero
  Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo

2. OTHER CATEGORIES WITH JAZZ OR JAZZ-RELATED ARTISTS

7. Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Love For Sale – Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

71. Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: Love For Sale – Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

11. Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: Tree Falls – Taylor Eigsti

64: Best Instrumental Composition: Eberhard – Lyle Mays

66. Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals: To The Edge Of Longing (Edit Version) –
Vince Mendoza, arranger (Vince Mendoza, Czech National Symphony Orchestra & Julia Bullock)

69. Best Album Notes: The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia And RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-1966 – Ricky Ricciardi