2010 Grammy Award Winners – (Of major interest to our readers)
Best Contemporary Jazz Instrumental Album: 75 – Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate
Best Jazz Vocal Album: Dedicated To You: Kurt Elling Sings The Music Of Coltrane And Hartman
Best Jazz Instrumental Solo Performance: "Dancin’ 4 Chicken" – Terence Blanchard soloist
Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Five Peace Band — Live – Chick Corea & John McLaughlin
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Book One – New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
Best Latin Jazz Album: Juntos Para Siempre – Bebo Valdés And Chucho Valdés
Best Traditional World Music Album: Douga Mansa – Mamadou Diabate
Best Contemporary World Music Album: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3 – Africa Sessions – Béla Fleck
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album: Slumdog Millionaire – Various Artists
Best Score Soundtrack Album: Up – Michael Giacchino
Best Instrumental Composition: "Married Life" (From Up) – Michael Giacchino
Best Instrumental Arangment Accompanying Vocalist: "Quiet Nights"
Claus Ogerman, arranger (Diana Krall)
Best Album Notes: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946) – Dan Morgenstern, writer
Best Surround Sound Album: Transmigration – Michael Bishop, surround mix engineer (Atlanta Sym. Orch. & Choruses)
Best Engineered Album, Classical: Mahler: Symphony No. 8 – Peter Laenger, engineer (Michael Tilson Thomas & San Francisco Sym.)
Producer of the Year, Classical: Steven Epstein (Dr. Atomic Sym., Bernstein: Mass, Corigliano: Dylan Thomas Trilogy, Faure: Piano Quintets, Songs of Joy and Peace – Yo-Yo Ma)
Best Classical Album: Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10 (SF Sym. Orch./MTT)
Best Orchestra Performance: "Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloé" – James Levine (Boston Symphony Orchestra; Tanglewood Festival Chorus)
Best Opera Recordimg: "Britten: Billy Budd" – Daniel Harding, cond.; Ian Bostridge, Neal Davies & others (London Symphony Orchestra; Gentlemen Of The London Sym. Chorus)
Best Choral Performance: "Mahler: Symphony No. 8" – SF Sym. & Chorus/Michael Tilson Thomas
Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (With Orchestra): "Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3" – Vladimir Ashkenazy, cond.; Evgeny Kissin, p. (Philharmonia Orch.)
Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (Without Orchestra): "Journey To The New World" – Sharon Isbin, g. (Joan Baez & Mark O’Connor)
Best Chamber Music Performance: "Intimate Letters" – Emerson String Quartet
Best Small Ensemble Performance: "Lang, David: The Little Match Girl Passion" – Paul Hillier, cond.; Ars Nova Copenhagen & Theatre Of Voices
Best Classical Vocal Performance: "Verismo Arias" – Renée Fleming (Marco Armiliato; Jonas Kaufmann; Orch. Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppi Verdi; Coro Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppi Verdi)
Best Classical Contemporary Composition: "Higdon, Jennifer: Percussion Concerto" – Jennifer Higdon (Marin Alsop)
Best Classical Crossover Album: Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy & Peace – Yo-Yo Ma
Best Long Form Music Video: "The Beatles Love — All Together Now" – Various Artists – Adrian Wills, video director
Wayne Shorter – In Memoriam
Rememberance of the artist
