Best Improvised Jazz Solo: 500 Miles High
Chick Corea, soloist
Track from: Forever (Corea, Clarke & White)
[Concord Records]
Best Jazz Vocal Album: The Mosaic Project
Terri Lyne Carrington & Various Artists
[Concord Jazz]
Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Forever
Corea, Clarke & White
[Concord Records]
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: The Good Feeling
Christian McBride Big Band
[Mack Avenue Records]
Best Instrumental Arrangement: Rhapsody In Blue
Gordon Goodwin, arranger (Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band)
Track from: That’s How We Roll
[Telarc International]
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
Jorge Calandrelli, arranger (Tony Bennett & Queen Latifah)
Track from: Duets II
[RPM/Columbia Records]
Best Instrumental Composition: Life In Eleven
Béla Fleck & Howard Levy, composers (Béla Fleck & The Flecktones)
Track from: Rocket Science
[eOne Music]