Grammy Award For Best Instrumental Composition - 2010s

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)