Jazz News: 2011 Jazz Grammy Winners

Winners of the 2011 Grammy Awards in the jazz categories were announced tonight before the telecast. Jazz Times has a list of the winners.

Jazz Grammy Winners Presented in LA

Stanley Clarke, James Moody, Herbie Hancock and Dee Dee Bridgewater among winners

By Lee Mergner

In a pre-telecast ceremony held in Los Angeles today, the winners in nearly 100 categories were announced. Included in there were the jazz categories, in which Stanley Clarke, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Billy Childs, Herbie Hancock, Chucho Valdes and the late James Moody were among the winners. More...

UPDATE: The Best New Artist award went to Justin Bieber Esperanza Spalding!