A bit late due to aforementioned issues with time, etc., but the 51st Grammy Award nominations are out. I felt compelled to put up a "here are the Grammy nominations" post. Don't always agree with their choices, but there are a few good ones in there.  and here are the nominations for jazz (that would be Field 10, Categories 45 for your Grammy novices):

Best Contemporary Jazz Album

• Randy in Brasil—Randy Brecker (MAMA Records)
• Floating Point—John McLaughlin (Abstract Logix)
• Cannon Re-Loaded: An All-Star Celebration of Cannonball Adderley—Various Artists (Concord Jazz)
• Miles from India (TWO CD SET)—Various Artists (4Q/Times Square Records)
• Lifecycle—-Yellowjackets featuring Mike Stern (Heads Up International)

Best Jazz Vocal Album

• Imagina: Songs of Brasil—Karrin Allyson (Concord Jazz)
• Breakfast on the Morning Tram—Stacey Kent (Blue Note)
• If Less Is More...Nothing Is Everything—Kate McGarry (Palmetto Records)
• Loverly—Cassandra Wilson (Blue Note)
• Distances—Norma Winstone (ECM)

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo

• 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)
• Seven Steps To Heaven--Till Brönner, soloist (Track from: The Standard, Heads Up International)
• Waltz For Debby—Gary Burton & Chick Corea, soloists (Track from: The New Crystal Silence, Concord Records)
• Son of Thirteen—Pat Metheny, soloist (Track from: Day Trip--Nonesuch Records)
• Be-Bop--James Moody, 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

• The New Crystal Silence—Chick Corea & Gary Burton (Concord Records)
• History, Mystery—Bill Frisell (Nonesuch Records)
• Live—Brad Mehldau Trio (Nonesuch Records)
• Day Trip—Pat Metheny with Christian McBride & Antonio Sanchez (Nonesuch Records)
• Standards—Alan Pasqua, Dave Carpenter & Peter Erskine Trio (Fuzzy Music)

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

• Appearing Nightly—Carla Bley and Her Remarkable Big Band (WATT)
• Act Your Age—Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band (Immergent)
• Symphonica—Joe Lovano with WDR Big Band & Rundfunk Orchestra (Blue Note)
• Blauklang—Vince Mendoza (Act Music and Vision)
• Monday Night Live At The Village Vanguard—The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (Planet Arts Recordings)

Best Latin Jazz Album

• Afro Bop Alliance—Caribbean Jazz Project (Heads Up International)
• The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter—Conrad Herwig & the Latin Side Band (Half Note Records)
• Song for Chico—Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra (Zoho)
• Nouveau Latino--Nestor Torres (Diamond Light Records)
• Mighty Pirates - Marooned/Aislado—Papo Vázquez &The Mighty Pirates (Picaro Records)

Well, there they are.  Click on the links to be taken to buy them on Amazon.  I will try to give some of these a listen and may post later and may also find and link to some posts from other jazz writers and bloggers about the nominees.  Let me know what you think in the comments.