piano, keyboards Shaun Martin – keyboards Bobby Sparks II – keyboards Justin Stanton – keyboards, trumpet Bob Lanzetti – guitars Mark Lettieri – guitars Chris McQueen – guitars Larnell Lewis – drums Jamison Ross – drums Jason "JT" Thomas – drums – percussion Nate Werth – percussion Marcelo Woloski – percussion Awards and honors 2013 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance, "Something" 2013 Best Electric/Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Group/Artist, JazzTimes Readers' Poll 2013 Best New Artist, JazzTimes Readers' Poll 2015 Best Electric/Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Group/Artist, JazzTimes Critic' Poll 2015 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, Sylva 2015 Jazz Group of the Year, DownBeat Readers' Poll 2016 Jazz Group of the Year, DownBeat Readers' Poll 2016 Best Electric/Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Group/Artist, JazzTimes Readers' Poll 2016 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, Culcha Vulcha 2017 Best Electric/Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Group/Artist, JazzTimes Readers' Poll 2017 Jazz Group of the Year, DownBeat Readers' Poll 2018 Best Electric/Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Group/Artist, JazzTimes Readers' Poll 2019 Jazz Group of the Year, DownBeat Readers' Poll 2021 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2023 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, Empire Central Discography Live at Uncommon Ground (self-release, 2005) - live The Only Constant (Sitmom, 2006) The World Is Getting Smaller (Sitmom, 2007) Bring Us the Bright (Sitmom, 2008) Tell Your Friends (Ropeadope, 2010) – recorded in 2009 groundUP (GroundUP, 2012) - live Amkeni with Bukuru Celestin (Ropeadope, 2013) Family Dinner – Volume 1 (Ropeadope, 2013) We Like It Here (Ropeadope, 2014) – live recorded in 2013 Sylva with Metropole Orkest (Impulse!, 2015) – live recorded in 2014 Family Dinner – Volume 2 (GroundUP, Universal Music Classics, 2016) – live recorded in 2015 Culcha Vulcha (GroundUP, 2016) Immigrance (GroundUP, 2019) Live at the Royal Albert Hall (GroundUP, 2020)[2CD] – live recorded in 2019 Live at GroundUP Music Festival (GroundUP/Spotify, 2022) – live Empire Central (GroundUP, 2022)[2CD] References External links Official website American jazz ensembles from Texas Grammy Award winners Musical groups established in 2004 Musical groups from Denton, Texas Musical groups from Brooklyn Jazz fusion ensembles Jazz musicians from Texas GroundUPmusic artists Ropeadope Records artists Impulse! Records artists Jazz musicians from New York (state)