Due to the length of the previous party had to split into three. Now I realize how uninformed I was about these awards, read the awards and their categories and some were sure surprised.
Category Jazz
Best Contemporary Jazz Album
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- Floating Point
John McLaughlin
- Cannon Re-Loaded: All-Star Celebration Of Cannonball Adderley
(Various Artists)
Gregg Field & Tom Scott, producers
- Miles From India
(Various Artists)
Bob Belden, producer
- Lifecycle
Yellowjackets Featuring Mike Stern
- Floating Point
Randy In Brasil
Randy Brecker
[MAMA Records]
Best Jazz Vocal Album
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- Imagina: Songs Of Brasil
Karrin Allyson
- Breakfast On The Morning Tram
Stacey Kent
- If Less Is More…Nothing Is Everything
Kate McGarry
- Distances
Norma Winstone (Glauco Venier & Klaus Gesing)
- Imagina: Songs Of Brasil
- Loverly
Cassandra Wilson
[Blue Note]
Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
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- Seven Steps To Heaven
Till Brönner, soloist
- Waltz For Debby
Gary Burton & Chick Corea, soloists
- Son Of Thirteen
Pat Metheny, soloist
- Be-Bop
James Moody, soloist
- Seven Steps To Heaven
- Be-Bop
Terence Blanchard, soloist
Track from: Live At The 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival (Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary All-Stars)
[Monterey Jazz Festival Records]
Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group
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- History, Mystery
Bill Frisell
- Brad Mehldau Trio: Live
Brad Mehldau Trio
- Day Trip
Pat Metheny With Christian McBride & Antonio Sanchez
- Standards
Alan Pasqua, Dave Carpenter & Peter Erskine Trio
- History, Mystery
- The New Crystal Silence
Chick Corea & Gary Burton
[Concord Records]
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
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- Appearing Nightly
Carla Bley And Her Remarkable Big Band
- Act Your Age
Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band
- Symphonica
Joe Lovano With WDR Big Band & Rundfunk Orchestra
- Blauklang
Vince Mendoza
- Appearing Nightly
- Monday Night Live At The Village Vanguard
The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra
[Planet Arts Recordings]
Best Latin Jazz Album
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- Afro Bop Alliance
Caribbean Jazz Project
- The Latin Side Of Wayne Shorter
Conrad Herwig & The Latin Side Band
- Nouveau Latino
Nestor Torres
- Marooned/Aislado
Papo Vázquez The Mighty Pirates
- Afro Bop Alliance
- Song For Chico
Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra
[Zoho]
Category Gospel
Best Gospel Performance
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- I Understand
Kim Burrell, Rance Allen, Bebe Winans & Mariah Carey
- East To West
Casting Crowns
- Shall We Gather At The River
Take 6
- Waging War
CeCe Winans
- I Understand
- Get Up
Mary Mary
Track from: The Sound
[Columbia]
Best Gospel Song
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- Cover Me
James L. Moss, songwriter (21:03 With Fred Hammond, Smokie Norful & J Moss)
- Get Up
Erica Campbell, Tina Campbell, Warryn Campbell & Eric Dawkins, songwriters (Mary Mary)
- Give Me Your Eyes
Brandon Heath & Jason Ingram, songwriters (Brandon Heath)
- You Reign
Jim Bryson, Steven Curtis Chapman, Nathan Cochran, Barry Graul, Bart Millard, Mike Scheuchzer & Robby Shaffer, songwriters (MercyMe)
- Cover Me
- Help Me Believe
Kirk Franklin, songwriter (Kirk Franklin)
Track from: The Fight Of My Life
[Fo Yo Soul Ent./Zomba Gospel ; Publishers: Universal Music-Z Songs/Kerrion Publishing]
Best Rock Or Rap Gospel Album
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- Hello
After Edmund
- Our World Redeemed
Flame
- We Need Each Other
Sanctus Real
- Rock What You Got
Superchick
- Hello
- Alive And Transported
TobyMac
[ForeFront Records/EMI CMG]
Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
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- This Moment
Steven Curtis Chapman
- What If We
Brandon Heath
- Opposite Way
Leeland
- Hello Love
Chris Tomlin
- This Moment
- Thy Kingdom Come
CeCe Winans
[PureSprings Gospel/EMI Gospel]
Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album
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- Room For More
Booth Brothers
- Steps To Heaven
Charlie Louvin
- Hymned Again
Bart Millard
- Ephesians One
Karen Peck & New River
- Room For More
- Lovin’ Life
Gaither Vocal Band
[Gaither Music Group]
Best Traditional Gospel Album
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- I’ll Say Yes
The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
Carol Cymbala, producer
- Take It Back
Dorinda Clark-Cole
- Deitrick Haddon Presents . . . Together In Worship
Voices Of Unity
- Bishop Charles E. Blake Presents… No Limit
The West Angeles COGIC Mass Choir
- I’ll Say Yes
- Down In New Orleans
The Blind Boys Of Alabama
[Time Life]
Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album
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- Reflections
Jason Champion
- The Sound
Mary Mary
- Donald Lawrence Introduces: Family Prayer
The Murrills
- Stand Out
Tye Tribbett & G.A.
- Reflections
- The Fight Of My Life
Kirk Franklin
[Fo Yo Soul Entertainment/ Zomba Gospel]
Category Latin
Best Latin Pop Album
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- Cara B
Jorge Drexler
- Palabras Del Silencio
Luis Fonsi
- Cómplices
Luis Miguel
- Tarde O Temprano
Tommy Torres
- Cara B
- La Vida…Es Un Ratico
Juanes
[Universal Music Latino]
Best Latin Rock Or Alternative Album
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- Sonidos Gold
Grupo Fantasma
- La Verdad
Locos Por Juana
- Tijuana Sound Machine
Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich & Fussible
- Mediocre
Ximena Sariñana
- Sonidos Gold
- 45
Jaguares
[EMI Music]
Best Latin Urban Album
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- La Novela
Akwid
- La Sinfonia
La Sinfonia
- The Royalty: La Realeza
Rkm & Ken-y
- En Lo Claro
Voltio
- La Novela
- Los Extraterrestres
Wisin y Yandel
[Machete Music]
Best Tropical Latin Album
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- Cuba: Un Viaje Musical — A Musical Journey
Albita, Rey Ruíz & Donato Poveda
- Renacer
DLG
- Frutero Moderno
Gonzalo Grau y La Clave Secreta
- Back On The Streets… Taste Of Spanish Harlem Vol. 2
New Swing Sextet
- Cuba: Un Viaje Musical — A Musical Journey
- Señor Bachata
José Feliciano
[Universal Music Latino]
Best Regional Mexican Album
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- Desde México: “Cumbia Cusinela”
Huichol Musical
- Vámonos Pa’l Río
Los Pikadientes De Caborca
- A Puro Dolor
Nadia
- Desde México: “Cumbia Cusinela”
- Amor, Dolor Y Lágrimas: Música Ranchera
Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
[Smithsonian Folkways Recordings] - Canciones De Amor
Mariachi Divas
[Shea Records/East Side Records]
Best Tejano Album
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- Music Lessons
Chente Barrera y Taconazo
- Friends & Legends
Joe Posada
- All That Jazz…
Tortilla Factory
- Heir To The Throne
Albert Zamora
- Music Lessons
- Viva La Revolucion
Ruben Ramos & The Mexican Revolution
[Revolution Records]
Best Norteño Album
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- Me Enamore De Un Angel
Los Palominos
- Corridos: Defendiendo El Honor
Pesado
- Six Pack
Siggno
- Cuidado
Solido
- Me Enamore De Un Angel
- Raíces
Los Tigres Del Norte
[Fonovisa]
Best Banda Album
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- Tu Inspiracion
Alacranes Musical
- Que Bonito… ¡Es Lo Bonito!
Banda El Recodo de Cruz Lizárraga
- Vive Y Dejame Vivir
Cuisillos
- Tiro De Gracia
Lupillo Rivera
- Tu Inspiracion
- No Es De Madera
Joan Sebástian
[Musart/Balboa Records]
Category Blues
Best Traditional Blues Album
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- The Blues Rolls On
Elvin Bishop
- Skin Deep
Buddy Guy
- All Odds Against Me
John Lee Hooker Jr.
- Pinetop Perkins & Friends
Pinetop Perkins & Friends
- The Blues Rolls On
- One Kind Favor
B.B. King
[Geffen Records]
Best Contemporary Blues Album
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- Peace, Love & BBQ
Marcia Ball
- Like A Fire
Solomon Burke
- Maestro
Taj Mahal
- Simply Grand
Irma Thomas
- Peace, Love & BBQ
- City That Care Forgot
Dr. John And The Lower 911
[429 Records]
Category Folk
Best Traditional Folk Album
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- Coal
Kathy Mattea
- Comedians & Angels
Tom Paxton
- Bring Me Home
Peggy Seeger
- Strangers In Another Country
Rosalie Sorrels
- Coal
- At 89
Pete Seeger
[Appleseed Recordings]
Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album
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- Day After Tomorrow
Joan Baez
- I, Flathead
Ry Cooder
- Sex & Gasoline
Rodney Crowell
- All I Intended To Be
Emmylou Harris
- Day After Tomorrow
- Raising Sand
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
[Rounder Records]
Best Native American Music Album
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- Songs From The Black Hills
Bryan Akipa
- Spo’Mo’Kin’Nan
Black Lodge
- Red Rock
Northern Cree
- Faith
Kevin Yazzie
- Songs From The Black Hills
- Come To Me Great Mystery — Native American Healing Songs
(Various Artists)
Tom Wasinger, producer
[Silver Wave Records]
Best Hawaiian Music Album
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- ‘Aumakua
Amy Hanaiali`i
- Force Of Nature
Led Kaapana & Mike Kaawa
- Hawaiian Slack Key Kings Masters Series Vol. II
(Various Artists)
Chris Lau & Milton Lau, producers
- The Spirit Of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar
(Various Artists)
Daniel Ho, George Kahumoku, Jr., Dennis Kamakahi, Paul Konwiser & Wayne Wong, producers
- ‘Aumakua
- ‘Ikena
Tia Carrere & Daniel Ho
[Daniel Ho Creations]
Best Zydeco Or Cajun Music Album
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- From Now On
Michael Doucet
- Homage Au Passé
Pine Leaf Boys
- Live At The 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys
- Cedric Watson
Cedric Watson
- From Now On
- Live At The 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
BeauSoleil & Michael Doucet
[MunckMix]
Category Reggae
Best Reggae Album
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- Let’s Get Physical
Elephant Man
- Vibes
Heavy D
- Repentance
Lee “Scratch” Perry
- Intoxication
Shaggy - Amazing
Sly & Robbie
- Let’s Get Physical
- Jah Is Real
Burning Spear
[Burning Music Production]
Category World Music
Best Traditional World Music Album
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- Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey
Debashish Bhattacharya
- The Mandé Variations
Toumani Diabaté
- Dancing In The Light
Lakshmi Shankar
- Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey
- Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
[Heads Up International]
Best Contemporary World Music Album
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- Shake Away
Lila Downs
- Banda Larga Cordel
Gilberto Gil
- Rokku Mi Rokka (Give And Take)
Youssou N’Dour
- Live At The Nelson Mandela Theater
Soweto Gospel Choir
- Shake Away
- Global Drum Project
Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju & Giovanni Hidalgo
[Shout! Factory]
Category Polka
Best Polka Album
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- El Maestro Del Acordeón Y Sus Polkas
Paulino Bernal
- Speechless
LynnMarie & Charlie Kelley As The Boxhounds
- Back To Back Hall Of Fame Polkas
Walter Ostanek & His Band, Jerry Darlak & The Touch And Bob Kravos & His Band
- Hungry For More
Polka Family Band
- El Maestro Del Acordeón Y Sus Polkas
- Let The Whole World Sing
Jimmy Sturr And His Orchestra
[Rounder]
Category Children’s
Best Musical Album For Children
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- Beethoven’s Wig 4: Dance Along Symphonies
Beethoven’s Wig
- Big Round World
Trout Fishing In America
- Here Comes Brady Rymer And The Little Band That Could
Brady Rymer And The Little Band That Could
- The Shoe Bird
Gerard Schwarz Conducting The Seattle Symphony
- Beethoven’s Wig 4: Dance Along Symphonies
- Here Come The 123s
They Might Be Giants
[Disney Sound]
Best Spoken Word Album For Children
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- Around The Campfire
Buck Howdy With BB
- The Big One-Oh
Dean Pitchford
- Brown Bear And Friends
Gwyneth Paltrow
- The Cricket In Times Square
Tony Shalhoub
- Around The Campfire
- Yes To Running! Bill Harley Live
Bill Harley
[Round River Records]
Category Spoken Word
Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling)
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- Born Standing Up
Steve Martin
- I Am America (And So Can You!)
Stephen Colbert (& Various Artists)
- Life Beyond Measure
Sidney Poitier
- When You Are Engulfed In Flames
David Sedaris
- Born Standing Up
- An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore)
Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon & Blair Underwood
[Simon & Schuster Audio]
Category Comedy
Best Comedy Album
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- Anticipation
Lewis Black
- Flight Of The Conchords
Flight Of The Conchords
- For Your Consideration
Kathy Griffin
- Songs Of The Bushmen
Harry Shearer
- Anticipation
- It’s Bad For Ya
George Carlin
[Eardrum Records]
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