This year is a bit different. When two jazz categories from the Grammy Awards were eliminated in a top-down Awards-wide cutdown in April, a number of jazz musicians — notably, Latin jazz musicians, who lost the Best Latin Jazz Album category — publicly protested. Some have since filed suit.
Publication: A Blog Supreme/NPR Jazz
Author: Patrick Jarenwattananon
Date: December 2, 2011
As an avid jazz media consumer based on the East Coast, I’ve come to find the annual announcement of Grammy nominations worth a bit of detached amusement. The results, at least where jazz is concerned, rarely align well with my perceptions of emerging critical consensus, but it’s fun enough to handicap the field presented for you. Meanwhile, some jazz musicians are getting awards with some prestige to them, and the vast majority of other jazz musicians remain happily unconcerned with Grammy Awards and the sector of the recording industry responsible for them. So no harm is really done.
