The nominees for the 2021 Grammy Awards have been announced, recognising the best new recordings, compositions and artistic achievement from 1 September 2019 to 31 August 2020.

Across 83 award categories the following single-reed artists have been nominated (who all happen to be saxophonists this year):

Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance:

Contemporary Voices – Pacifica Quartet; Otis Murphy, alto saxophone. Disc features Quintet for Alto Saxophone & String Quartet in A Minor by Ellen Taafe Zwilich.

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Best Jazz Instrumental Album:

RoundAgain – Joshua Redman Quartet

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Best Improvised Jazz Solo:

Moe Honk – Joshua Redman, saxophone. Track from ‘RoundAgain’ (Joshua Redman Quartet)

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Best Instrumental Composition:

Strata – Remy Le Boeuf, composer. Track from ‘Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly of Shadows’, featuring Remy Le Bouef on saxophones.

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Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella:

Honeymooners (reimagining of Ornette Coleman’s composition of the same name) – Remy Le Boeuf, arranger. Track from ‘Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly of Shadows’ featuring Remy Le Bouef on saxophones.

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