1997 Grammy Awards: Jazz


From the Recording Academy's Web Site, these are the 1997 Grammy Winners in jazz:

Best Contemporary Jazz Performance
High Life: Wayne Shorter

Best Jazz Vocal Performance
New Moon Daughter: Cassandra Wilson

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
Cabin Fever: Michael Brecker
from Tales From The Hudson

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group
Tales From The Hudson: Michael Brecker

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance
Live At Manchester Craftsmen's Guild: Count Basie Orchestra (With The New York Voices); Grover Mitchell, Conductor

Best Latin Jazz Performance
Portraits Of Cuba: Paquito D'Rivera

Best Instrumental Composition
Manhattan (Island of Light and Love)
Herbie Hancock & Jean Hancock, composers
track from: The New Standard

Best Instrumental Arrangement With Accompanying Vocal(s)
When I Fall in Love: Alan Broadbent & David Foster (& Gordon Jenkins), arrangers
from: Stardust: Natalie Cole (& Nat King Cole)

Best Recording Package - Boxed
The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings: Miles Davis & Gil Evans
Chika Azuma & Arnold Levine, art directors

Best Album Notes
The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings: Miles Davis & Gil Evans
George Avakian, Bob Belden, Bill Kirchner & Phil Schaap, album notes writers

Best Historical Album
The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings: Miles Davis & Gil Evans
Bob Belden & Phil Schaap, compilation producers; Phil Schaap & Mark Wilder, mastering engineers

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Q's Jook Joint: Quincy Jones
Francis Buckley, Al Schmitt, Bruce Swedien & Tommy Vicari, engineers


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