Ogłoszone zostały nominacje do 63 Nagród The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences czyli popularnych Grammy, które wręczone zostaną 31 stycznia 2021 roku.
Oto nominacje w katergoriach jazzowych:
Best Improvised Jazz Solo
- Guinevere — Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah, album Axiom
- Pachamama — Regina Carter, album Ona (Thana Alexa)
- Celia — Gerald Clayton, album Happening: Live at The Village Vanguard
- All Blues — Chick Corea, album Trilogy 2 (Chick Corea, Christian Mcbride & Brian Blade)
- Moe Honk — Joshua Redman, album Roundagain (Redman Mehldau Mcbride Blade)
Best Jazz Vocal Album
- Ona — Thana Alexa
- Secrets Are The Best Stories — Kurt Elling Featuring Danilo Pérez
- Modern Ancestors — Carmen Lundy
- Holy Room: Live At Alte Oper — Somi With Frankfurt Radio Big Band
- What's The Hurry — Kenny Washington
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
- On The Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment — Ambrose Akinmusire
- Waiting Game — Terri Lyne Carrington And Social Science
- Happening: Live at The Village Vanguard — Gerald Clayton
- Trilogy 2— Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade
- Roundagain— Redman Mehldau McBride Blade
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
- Dialogues on Race — Gregg August
- Monk’estra Plays John Beasley — John Beasley
- The Intangible Between — Orrin Evans and The Captain Black Big Band
- Songs You Like A Lot — John Hollenbeck With Theo Bleckmann, Kate McGarry, Gary Versace and The Frankfurt Radio Big Band
- Data Lords — Maria Schneider Orchestra
Best Latin Jazz Album
- Tradiciones — Afro-Peruvian Jazz Orchestra
- Four Questions — Arturo O’farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
- City Of Dreams — Chico Pinheiro
- Viento Y Tiempo - Live At Blue Note — Tokyo Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Aymée Nuviola
- Trane’s Delight — Poncho Sanchez
Ponadto wyróżniono:
Aranżacje
- Donna Lee — John Beasley, (John Beasley)
- Asas Fechadas — John Beasley & Maria Mendes, (Maria Mendes Featuring John Beasley & Orkest Metropole)
- Desert Song — Erin Bentlage, Sara Gazarek, Johnaye Kendrick & Amanda Taylor (Säje)
- From This Place — Alan Broadbent & Pat Metheny, (Pat Metheny Featuring Meshell Ndegeocello)
- He Won’t Hold You — Jacob Collier, (Jacob Collier Featuring Rapsody)
Kompozycje instrumnetalne
- Baby Jack — Arturo O’Farrill, (Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra)
- Be Water II — Christian Sands, (Christian Sands)
- Sputnik — Maria Schneider, (Maria Schneider)
W kategoriach pozajazzowych nominowano między innymi:
- Album historyczny: Throw Down Your Heart: The Complete Africa Sessions — Béla Fleck
- Album historyczny: Hittin’ The Ramp: The Early Years (1936 - 1943) - Nat King Cole
- Soundtrack: Becoming — Kamasi Washington
- Contemporary instrumental music: Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah, album Axiom; Grégoire Maret, Romain Collin & Bill Frisell, album Amerciana, Jon Batiste, album Chronoly of a Dream oraz Snark Puppy, album Live at Royal Albert Hall
- Best R&B Album - Gregory Porter, album All Rise
- Best R&B Song: Better Than I Imagined Robert Glasper, Meshell Ndegeocello & Gabriella Wilson (wykonanie: Robert Glasper Featuring H.E.R. & Meshell Ndegeocello)