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47th Annual GRAMMY Award Winners (2005)

Best Contemporary Jazz Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)
Unspeakable
Bill Frisell
[Nonesuch Records]

Best Jazz Vocal Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)
R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal)
Nancy Wilson
[MCG Jazz]

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.)
“Speak Like A Child”
Herbie Hancock, soloist
Track from: With All My Heart (Harvey Mason)
[Bluebird]

Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)
Illuminations
McCoy Tyner With Gary Bartz, Terence Blanchard, Christian McBride & Lewis Nash
[Telarc Jazz]

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
(For large jazz ensembles, including big band sounds. Albums must contain 51% or more INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)
Concert In The Garden
Maria Schneider Orchestra
[ArtistShare]

Best Latin Jazz Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)
Land Of The Sun
Charlie Haden
[Verve International]

Best Instrumental Arrangement
(An Arranger's Award. (Artist names appear in parenthesis.) Singles or Tracks only.)
Past Present & Future
Slide Hampton, arranger (The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra)
Track from: The Way - Music Of Slide Hampton
[Planet Arts Recordings]

Best Album Notes
The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Woody Herman And His Orchestra & Woodchoppers (1945-1947)
Loren Schoenberg, album notes writer (Woody Herman & His Orchestra)
[Mosaic Records]

Best Historical Album
Night Train To Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues, 1945-1970
Daniel Cooper & Michael Gray, compilation producers; Joseph M. Palmaccio & Alan Stoker, mastering engineers (Various Artists)
[CMF/Lost Highway Records]



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