2010s
- Grammy Awards of 2012
- Béla Fleck & Howard Levy for Life in Eleven
Nominees (artists names, followed by album title, in parentheses)
- John Hollenbeck for Falling Men (John Hollenbeck, Daniel Yvinec & l'Orchestre National de Jazz – Shut Up and Dance)
- Gordon Goodwin for Hunting Wabbits 3 (Get Off My Lawn) (Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band – That's How We Roll)
- Randy Brecker for I Talk To The Trees (Randy Brecker & the DR Big Band – The Jazz Ballad Song Book)
- Béla Fleck & Howard Levy for Life in Eleven (Bela Fleck & The Flecktones – Rocket Science)
- Russell Ferrante for Timeline (Yellowjackets – Timeline)
- Grammy Awards of 2011
- Billy Childs for The Path Among The Trees, from Autumn: In Moving Pictures Jazz – Chamber Music Vol. 2, performed by the Billy Childs Ensemble
- Grammy Awards of 2010
- Michael Giacchino (composer) for "Married Life" (from the motion picture Up)
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