79-564: (Redirected from Best Improvised Jazz Solo ) Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance Awarded for quality performances in the jazz music genre Country United States Presented by National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences First awarded 1959 Currently held by Wayne Shorter & Leo Genovese (soloist), "Endangered Species" ( 2023 ) Website grammy.com The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance has been awarded since 1959. Before 1979
158-626: A "special relationship to time defined as 'swing ' ". Jazz involves "a spontaneity and vitality of musical production in which improvisation plays a role" and contains a "sonority and manner of phrasing which mirror the individuality of the performing jazz musician". A broader definition that encompasses different eras of jazz has been proposed by Travis Jackson: "it is music that includes qualities such as swing, improvising, group interaction, developing an 'individual voice', and being open to different musical possibilities". Krin Gibbard argued that "jazz
237-2310: A Child" Alan Broadbent – "What's New" Don Byron – "I Want To Be Happy" Donny McCaslin – "Bulería, Soleá y Rumba" John Scofield – "Wee" 2006 Sonny Rollins "Why Was I Born?" Alan Broadbent – "Round Midnight" Ravi Coltrane – "Away" Herbie Hancock – "The Source" Branford Marsalis – "A Love Supreme -- Acknowledgement" 2007 Michael Brecker "Some Skunk Funk" Paquito D'Rivera – "Paq Man" Taylor Eigsti – "Freedom Jazz Dance" Roy Haynes – "Hippidy Hop" (Drum Solo) Branford Marsalis – "Hope" 2008 "Anagram" Terence Blanchard – "Levees" Herbie Hancock – " Both Sides Now " Hank Jones – "Lullaby" Paul McCandless – "1000 Kilometers" 2009 Terence Blanchard "Be-Bop" Till Brönner – "Seven Steps to Heaven" Gary Burton & Chick Corea – "Waltz for Debby" Pat Metheny – "Son of Thirteen" James Moody – "Be–Bop" 2010 "Dancin' 4 Chicken" Gerald Clayton – "All Of You" Roy Hargrove – "Ms. Garvey, Ms. Garvey" Martial Solal – "On Green Dolphin Street" Miguel Zenón – "Villa Palmeras" 2011 Herbie Hancock " A Change Is Gonna Come " Alan Broadbent – "Solar" Keith Jarrett – "Body and Soul" Hank Jones – "Lonely Woman" Wynton Marsalis – "Van Gogh" 2012 Chick Corea " 500 Miles High " Randy Brecker – "All or Nothing at All" Ron Carter – " You Are My Sunshine " Fred Hersch – "Work" Sonny Rollins – "Sonnymoon for Two" 2013 Gary Burton & Chick Corea "Hot House" Ravi Coltrane – "Cross Roads" Chick Corea – "Alice in Wonderland" Kenny Garrett – "J. Mac" Brad Mehldau – "Ode" 2014 Wayne Shorter "Orbits" Terence Blanchard – "Don't Run" Paquito D'Rivera – "Song for Maura" Fred Hersch – "Song Without Words #4: Duet" Donny McCaslin – "Stadium Jazz" 2015 Chick Corea "Fingerprints" Kenny Barron – "The Eye of
316-609: A Fog" Gary Burton – "Move" Pat Martino – "All Blues" 2003 Herbie Hancock "My Ship" Michael Brecker – "Naima" Pete Christlieb – "Chelsea Bridge" Tommy Flanagan – "Sunset & the Mockingbird" Pat Metheny – "Proof" 2004 Chick Corea "Matrix" Joey DeFrancesco – "All or Nothing at All" Keith Jarrett – "Butch and Butch" Pat Martino – "Africa" Mike Melvoin – "All or Nothing at All" 2005 Herbie Hancock "Speak Like
395-602: A Kiss" Wayne Shorter – "Pinocchio" Chick Corea – "Lush Life" Charlie Haden – "Alone Together" Michael Brecker – "African Skies" 1996 Michael Brecker "Impressions" Eliane Elias & Herbie Hancock – "The Way You Look Tonight" Kenny Barron – "Take the Coltrane" Charlie Haden & Hank Jones – "Go Down Moses" Pete Christlieb – "But Beautiful" 1997 "Cabin Fever" Charlie Haden – "Now
474-473: A drum made by stretching skin over a flour-barrel. Lavish festivals with African-based dances to drums were organized on Sundays at Place Congo, or Congo Square, in New Orleans until 1843. There are historical accounts of other music and dance gatherings elsewhere in the southern United States. Robert Palmer said of percussive slave music: Usually such music was associated with annual festivals, when
553-456: A form of folk music which arose in part from the work songs and field hollers of African-American slaves on plantations. These work songs were commonly structured around a repetitive call-and-response pattern, but early blues was also improvisational. Classical music performance is evaluated more by its fidelity to the musical score , with less attention given to interpretation, ornamentation, and accompaniment. The classical performer's goal
632-410: A limited melodic range, sounding like a field holler, and the guitar accompaniment was slapped rather than strummed, like a small drum which responded in syncopated accents, functioning as another "voice". Handy and his band members were formally trained African-American musicians who had not grown up with the blues, yet he was able to adapt the blues to a larger band instrument format and arrange them in
711-460: A multi- strain ragtime march with four parts that feature recurring themes and a bass line with copious seventh chords . Its structure was the basis for many other rags, and the syncopations in the right hand, especially in the transition between the first and second strain, were novel at the time. The last four measures of Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" (1899) are shown below. African-based rhythmic patterns such as tresillo and its variants,
790-518: A pitch which he called a 'jazz ball' "because it wobbles and you simply can't do anything with it". The use of the word in a musical context was documented as early as 1915 in the Chicago Daily Tribune . Its first documented use in a musical context in New Orleans was in a November 14, 1916, Times-Picayune article about "jas bands". In an interview with National Public Radio , musician Eubie Blake offered his recollections of
869-660: A popular music form. Handy wrote about his adopting of the blues: The primitive southern Negro, as he sang, was sure to bear down on the third and seventh tone of the scale, slurring between major and minor. Whether in the cotton field of the Delta or on the Levee up St. Louis way, it was always the same. Till then, however, I had never heard this slur used by a more sophisticated Negro, or by any white man. I tried to convey this effect ... by introducing flat thirds and sevenths (now called blue notes) into my song, although its prevailing key
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#1732801932223948-454: Is a construct" which designates "a number of musics with enough in common to be understood as part of a coherent tradition". Duke Ellington , one of jazz's most famous figures, said, "It's all music." Although jazz is considered difficult to define, in part because it contains many subgenres, improvisation is one of its defining elements. The centrality of improvisation is attributed to the influence of earlier forms of music such as blues ,
1027-693: Is a fundamental rhythmic figure heard in many different slave musics of the Caribbean, as well as the Afro-Caribbean folk dances performed in New Orleans Congo Square and Gottschalk's compositions (for example "Souvenirs From Havana" (1859)). Tresillo (shown below) is the most basic and most prevalent duple-pulse rhythmic cell in sub-Saharan African music traditions and the music of the African Diaspora . Tresillo
1106-558: Is a reminder of "an oppressive and racist society and restrictions on their artistic visions". Amiri Baraka argues that there is a "white jazz" genre that expresses whiteness . White jazz musicians appeared in the Midwest and in other areas throughout the U.S. Papa Jack Laine , who ran the Reliance band in New Orleans in the 1910s, was called "the father of white jazz". The Original Dixieland Jazz Band , whose members were white, were
1185-493: Is heard prominently in New Orleans second line music and in other forms of popular music from that city from the turn of the 20th century to present. "By and large the simpler African rhythmic patterns survived in jazz ... because they could be adapted more readily to European rhythmic conceptions," jazz historian Gunther Schuller observed. "Some survived, others were discarded as the Europeanization progressed." In
1264-1347: Is the Hour" Joe Lovano – "Duke Ellington's Sound of Love" Horace Silver – "Diggin' on Dexter" Gonzalo Rubalcaba – "Agua de Beber" 1998 Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton "Stardust" Buddy DeFranco – "You Must Believe in Swing" Antonio Hart – "The Community" Tommy Flanagan – "Dear Old Stockholm" Brad Mehldau – "Blame It On My Youth" 1999 Gary Burton & Chick Corea "Rhumbata" Randy Brecker – "My Funny Valentine" David Liebman – "My Favorite Things" Kenny Barron – "For Heaven's Sake" Benny Golson – "Body and Soul" 2000 Wayne Shorter "In Walked Wayne" Gary Burton – "Straight Up and Down" Chick Corea – "Wigwam" Stefon Harris – " There Is No Greater Love " Chris Potter – "In Vogue" 2001 Pat Metheny "(Go) Get It" Kenny Barron – "Passion Dance" Terence Blanchard – "I Thought About You" Michael Brecker – "Outrance" Keith Jarrett – "I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good" 2002 Michael Brecker "Chan's Song" Kenny Barron and Regina Carter – "Fragile" Terence Blanchard – "Lost in
1343-437: Is to play the composition as it was written. In contrast, jazz is often characterized by the product of interaction and collaboration, placing less value on the contribution of the composer, if there is one, and more on the performer. The jazz performer interprets a tune in individual ways, never playing the same composition twice. Depending on the performer's mood, experience, and interaction with band members or audience members,
1422-625: The Atlantic slave trade had brought nearly 400,000 Africans to North America. The slaves came largely from West Africa and the greater Congo River basin and brought strong musical traditions with them. The African traditions primarily use a single-line melody and call-and-response pattern, and the rhythms have a counter-metric structure and reflect African speech patterns. An 1885 account says that they were making strange music (Creole) on an equally strange variety of 'instruments'—washboards, washtubs, jugs, boxes beaten with sticks or bones and
1501-617: The Dixieland jazz revival of the 1940s, Black musicians rejected it as being shallow nostalgia entertainment for white audiences. On the other hand, traditional jazz enthusiasts have dismissed bebop, free jazz, and jazz fusion as forms of debasement and betrayal. An alternative view is that jazz can absorb and transform diverse musical styles. By avoiding the creation of norms, jazz allows avant-garde styles to emerge. For some African Americans, jazz has drawn attention to African-American contributions to culture and history. For others, jazz
1580-738: The 10 Biggest Changes to the Grammy Awards Process for 2024" . Billboard . Retrieved June 16, 2023 . ^ "2011 – 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees And Winners: R&B Field" . The Recording Academy . November 30, 2011. ^ "Grammys 2013: Winners List" . Billboard . Retrieved April 26, 2017 . ^ "2014 Nominees" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-16 . Retrieved 2022-02-12 . ^ "57th Grammy Nominees" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved December 5, 2014 . ^ Billboard.com, 7 December 2015 ^ "59th Grammy Nominees" . Grammy. Archived from
1659-411: The 1920s Jazz Age , it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music . Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes , complex chords , call and response vocals , polyrhythms and improvisation . As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in
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#17328019322231738-451: The 1950s, many women jazz instrumentalists were prominent, some sustaining long careers. Some of the most distinctive improvisers, composers, and bandleaders in jazz have been women. Trombonist Melba Liston is acknowledged as the first female horn player to work in major bands and to make a real impact on jazz, not only as a musician but also as a respected composer and arranger, particularly through her collaborations with Randy Weston from
1817-476: The 21st century, such as Latin and Afro-Cuban jazz . The origin of the word jazz has resulted in considerable research, and its history is well documented. It is believed to be related to jasm , a slang term dating back to 1860 meaning ' pep, energy ' . The earliest written record of the word is in a 1912 article in the Los Angeles Times in which a minor league baseball pitcher described
1896-827: The Bird 1982 John Coltrane Bye Bye Blackbird Pepper Adams – The Master...Pepper Adams Ira Sullivan – The Incredible Ira Sullivan Pete Christlieb – Self Portrait Jimmy Rowles – Music's The Only Thing That's On My Mind 1983 Miles Davis We Want Miles Wynton Marsalis – Wynton Marsalis Tommy Flanagan – The Magnificent Tommy Flanagan Ira Sullivan – Night and Day Jimmy Rowles – Jimmy Rowles Plays Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn 1984 Wynton Marsalis Think of One Chick Corea – Trio Music Sonny Stitt – The Last Stitt Sessions, Vol. 1 Art Blakey – Keystone 3 Phil Woods – At
1975-638: The Black middle-class. Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre, which originated in African-American communities of primarily the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from their spirituals , work songs , field hollers , shouts and chants and rhymed simple narrative ballads . The African use of pentatonic scales contributed to
2054-1250: The Blues Chick Corea – "Sophisticated Lady" John Patitucci – "Bessie's Blues" André Previn – After Hours 1991 Oscar Peterson The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note Miles Davis – The Hot Spot Branford Marsalis – Crazy People Music George Benson – "Basie's Bag" Stan Getz – Anniversary! 1992 Stan Getz " I Remember You " Dave Grusin – " How Long Has This Been Going On? " Jean "Toots" Thielemans – " Bluesette " David Sanborn – " Another Hand " Phil Woods – "All Bird's Children" 1993 Joe Henderson " Lush Life " Kenny Barron & Stan Getz – "Soul Eyes" Miles Davis – "Fantasy" Wynton Marsalis – "Blue Interlude" Randy Brecker – "Above and Below" 1994 "Miles Ahead" Benny Carter – "The More I See You" Phil Woods – "Nostalgico" Herbie Hancock – "Brasil (Aquarela Do Brasil)" Lee Ritenour – "4 on 6" 1995 Benny Carter "Prelude to
2133-464: The Caribbean. African-based rhythmic patterns were retained in the United States in large part through "body rhythms" such as stomping, clapping, and patting juba dancing . In the opinion of jazz historian Ernest Borneman , what preceded New Orleans jazz before 1890 was "Afro-Latin music", similar to what was played in the Caribbean at the time. A three-stroke pattern known in Cuban music as tresillo
2212-554: The Drum" John Beasley – "Cherokee/Koko" 2024 Samara Joy Tight Adam Blackstone featuring the Baylor Project & Russell Ferranté - "Vulnerable (Live)" Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding - " But Not for Me " Jon Batiste - " Movement 18' (Heroes) " Lakecia Benjamin - "Basquiat" References [ edit ] ^ Paul Grein (June 16, 2023). "Here Are
2291-859: The Duke Ellington Songbook Jonah Jones – Jumpin' with Jonah Matty Matlock – "Dixieland Story" George Shearing – Burnished Brass Jonah Jones – Baubles, Bangles and Beads 1960 Ella Swings Lightly Red Norvo – "Red Norvo in Hi-Fi" Andre Previn – " Like Young " Ruby Braff – "Easy Now" Bobby Troup – Bobby Troup and His Stars of Jazz Urbie Green – Best of New Broadway Show Hits 1972 Bill Evans Trio The Bill Evans Album Jimmy Rushing – The You and Me That Used to Be Earl Hines – Quintessential Recording Session Phil Woods – Phil Woods and his European Rhythm Machine at
2370-499: The Frankfurt Jazz Festival Larry Coryell – "Gypsy Queen" Dizzy Gillespie – Portrait of Jenny Carmen McRae – Carmen McRae 1973 Gary Burton Alone at Last Sonny Stitt – Tune-Up! Freddie Hubbard – The Hub of Hubbard McCoy Tyner – Sahara Tom Scott – Great Scott 1974 Art Tatum God Is in
2449-4022: The Full List Here" . Pitchfork . Retrieved November 11, 2023 . v t e Grammy Award categories General Album of the Year Record of the Year Song of the Year Best New Artist Producer of the Year Songwriter of the Year Children's, Comedy, Audio Book Narration & Storytelling, Visual Media & Music Video/Film Best Children's Album Best Comedy Album Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media Best Score Soundtrack Album for Visual Media Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media Best Song Written for Visual Media Best Music Video Best Music Film Classical Best Orchestral Performance Best Opera Recording Best Choral Performance Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance Best Classical Instrumental Solo Best Classical Vocal Solo Best Classical Compendium Best Contemporary Classical Composition Country & American Roots Best Country Album Best Country Song Best Country Solo Performance Best Country Duo/Group Performance Best Americana Album Best American Roots Song Best Americana Performance Best American Roots Performance Best Bluegrass Album Best Folk Album Best Traditional Blues Album Best Contemporary Blues Album Best Regional Roots Music Album Gospel & Contemporary Christian Best Gospel Album Best Contemporary Christian Music Album Best Roots Gospel Album Best Gospel Performance/Song Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song Jazz, Traditional Pop, Contemporary Instrumental & Musical Theater Best Jazz Vocal Album Best Alternative Jazz Album Best Latin Jazz Album Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Best Jazz Instrumental Album Best Contemporary Instrumental Album Best Jazz Performance Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Best Musical Theater Album Latin, Global, African, Reggae & New Age, Ambient or Chant Best Latin Pop Album Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album Best Tropical Latin Album Best Música Urbana Album Best Música Mexicana Album (including Tejano) Best Reggae Album Best Global Music Album Best New Age, Ambient Or Chant Album Best Global Music Performance Best African Music Performance Package, Notes & Historical Best Historical Album Best Album Notes Best Recording Package Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package Pop & Dance/Electronic Best Pop Vocal Album Best Dance/Electronic Album Best Pop Solo Performance Best Pop Duo/Group Performance Best Dance/Electronic Recording Best Pop Dance Recording Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical Production, Engineering, Composition & Arrangement Producer of
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2528-2030: The House Ray Brown – "The Very Thought of You" Clifford Brown – The Beginning and the End Hubert Laws – Morning Star Freddie Hubbard – " In a Mist " 1975 Charlie Parker First Recordings! Keith Jarrett – Solo-Concerts McCoy Tyner – " Naima " Hubert Laws – In the Beginning Freddie Hubbard – High Energy 1976 Dizzy Gillespie Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie Phineas Newborn Jr. – Solo Piano Phil Woods – Images John Coltrane – Giant Steps (First Release of Alternate Take) Jim Hall – Concierto 1977 Count Basie Basie & Zoot Art Tatum – Works of Art Phil Woods – The New Phil Woods Album Jaco Pastorius – "Donna Lee" Jim Hall – Commitment Clark Terry – Clark Terry and His Jolly Giants 1978 Oscar Peterson The Giants Phil Woods – The Phil Woods Six-Live from The Showboat Jaco Pastorius – Heavy Weather John Coltrane – Afro Blue Impressions Hank Jones – Bop Redux 1979 Oscar Peterson Jam – Montreux '77 Stan Getz – Stan Getz Gold Dexter Gordon – Sophisticated Giant Woody Shaw – Rosewood Al Cohn and Jimmy Rowles – Heavy Love 1980 Jousts Zoot Sims – Warm Tenor Pepper Adams – Reflectory Paul Desmond – Paul Desmond Dexter Gordon – Manhattan Symphonie 1981 Bill Evans I Will Say Goodbye Phil Woods – The Phil Woods Quartet - Volume One Hank Jones – I Remember You Jimmy Knepper – Cunningbird Pepper Adams – Chasin'
2607-2022: The Hurricane" Fred Hersch – "You & the Night & the Music" Joe Lovano – "Recorda Me" Brad Mehldau – "Sleeping Giant" 2016 Christian McBride " Cherokee " Joey Alexander – "Giant Steps" Donny McCaslin – "Arbiters of Evolution" Joshua Redman – "Friend or Foe" John Scofield – "Past Present" 2017 John Scofield "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" Joey Alexander – "Countdown" Ravi Coltrane – "In Movement" Fred Hersch – "We See" Brad Mehldau – "I Concentrate on You" 2018 John McLaughlin "Miles Beyond" Sara Caswell – "Can't Remember Why" Billy Childs – "Dance of Shiva" Fred Hersch – "Whisper Not" Chris Potter – "Ilimba" 2019 John Daversa "Don't Fence Me In" Regina Carter – "Some Of That Sunshine" Fred Hersch – "We See" Brad Mehldau – "De-Dah" Miguel Zenón – "Cadenas" 2020 Randy Brecker "Sozinho" Melissa Aldana – "Elsewhere" Julian Lage – "Tomorrow Is The Question" Branford Marsalis – "The Windup" Christian McBride – "Sightseeing" 2021 Chick Corea "All Blues" Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – "Guinevere" Regina Carter – "Pachamama" Gerald Clayton – "Celia" Joshua Redman – "Moe Honk" 2022 "Humpty Dumpty (Set 2)" Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – "Sackodougou" Kenny Barron – "Kick Those Feet" Jon Batiste – "Bigger Than Us" Terence Blanchard – "Absence" 2023 Wayne Shorter & Leo Genovese (soloist) "Endangered Species" Ambrose Akinmusire – "Rounds (Live)" Gerald Albright – "Keep Holding On" Melissa Aldana – "Falling" Marcus Baylor – "Call of
2686-710: The Source Eddie Daniels – Breakthrough 1988 Dexter Gordon The Other Side of Round Midnight Eddie Daniels – To Bird with Love Wynton Marsalis – Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. I Branford Marsalis – "Cottontail" 1989 Michael Brecker Don't Try This at Home Wynton Marsalis – The Wynton Marsalis Quartet Live at Blues Alley Branford Marsalis – Random Abstract Miles Davis – Music from Siesta Rob Wasserman – Duets 1990 Miles Davis Aura Wynton Marsalis – The Majesty of
2765-665: The Starlight Roof at the famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel . He entertained audiences with a light elegant musical style which remained popular with audiences for nearly three decades from the 1930s until the late 1950s. Jazz originated in the late-19th to early-20th century. It developed out of many forms of music, including blues , ragtime , European harmony , African rhythmic rituals, spirituals , hymns , marches , vaudeville song, and dance music . It also incorporated interpretations of American and European classical music, entwined with African and slave folk songs and
2844-589: The U.S. Female jazz performers and composers have contributed to jazz throughout its history. Although Betty Carter , Ella Fitzgerald , Adelaide Hall , Billie Holiday , Peggy Lee , Abbey Lincoln , Anita O'Day , Dinah Washington , and Ethel Waters were recognized for their vocal talent, less familiar were bandleaders, composers, and instrumentalists such as pianist Lil Hardin Armstrong , trumpeter Valaida Snow , and songwriters Irene Higginbotham and Dorothy Fields . Women began playing instruments in jazz in
2923-791: The Vanguard 1985 Hot House Flowers Tommy Flanagan – Thelonica Zoot Sims – Quietly There Pepper Adams & Kenny Wheeler – Live at Fat Tuesday's Ira Sullivan – Ira Sullivan... Does It All 1986 Black Codes (From the Underground) Dizzy Gillespie – "Sing Joy Spring" James Moody – "Meet Benny Bailey" Stanley Jordan – Magic Touch Miles Davis – "Human Nature" 1987 Miles Davis Tutu Branford Marsalis – Royal Garden Blues Wynton Marsalis – "Insane Asylum" Dizzy Gillespie – Closer to
3002-625: The Year Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grammy_Award_for_Best_Jazz_Performance&oldid=1251659398 " Categories : Grammy Awards for jazz Grammy Award categories Jazz music Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans , Louisiana , in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues , ragtime , European harmony , African rhythmic rituals, spirituals , hymns , marches , vaudeville song, and dance music . Since
3081-1013: The Year, Classical Best Immersive Audio Album Best Instrumental Composition Best Engineered Album, Classical Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals R&B, Rap and Spoken Word Poetry Best R&B Album Best Progressive R&B Album Best Rap Album Best Spoken Word Poetry Album Best R&B Performance Best Traditional R&B Performance Best Rap Performance Best Melodic Rap Performance Best R&B Song Best Rap Song Rock, Metal & Alternative Best Rock Album Best Rock Song Best Rock Performance Best Metal Performance Best Alternative Music Album Best Alternative Music Performance Special Awards Lifetime Achievement Award Trustees Award Legend Award Grammy Hall of Fame MusiCares Person of
3160-504: The award title did not specify instrumental performances and was presented for instrumental or vocal performances. The award has had several minor name changes: In 1959 the award was known as Best Jazz Performance, Individual In 1960 it was awarded as Best Jazz Performance - Soloist From 1961 to 1971 the award was combined with the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group From 1972 to 1978 it
3239-552: The blues are undocumented, though they can be seen as the secular counterpart of the spirituals. However, as Gerhard Kubik points out, whereas the spirituals are homophonic , rural blues and early jazz "was largely based on concepts of heterophony ". During the early 19th century an increasing number of black musicians learned to play European instruments, particularly the violin, which they used to parody European dance music in their own cakewalk dances. In turn, European American minstrel show performers in blackface popularized
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3318-555: The development of blue notes in blues and jazz. As Kubik explains: Many of the rural blues of the Deep South are stylistically an extension and merger of basically two broad accompanied song-style traditions in the west central Sudanic belt: W. C. Handy became interested in folk blues of the Deep South while traveling through the Mississippi Delta. In this folk blues form, the singer would improvise freely within
3397-434: The early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles , biguine , ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation . However, jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands , Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisational style), and gypsy jazz (a style that emphasized musette waltzes) were
3476-509: The early 1920s, drawing particular recognition on piano. When male jazz musicians were drafted during World War II, many all-female bands replaced them. The International Sweethearts of Rhythm , which was founded in 1937, was a popular band that became the first all-female integrated band in the U.S. and the first to travel with the USO , touring Europe in 1945. Women were members of the big bands of Woody Herman and Gerald Wilson . Beginning in
3555-480: The education of freed African Americans. Although strict segregation limited employment opportunities for most blacks, many were able to find work in entertainment. Black musicians were able to provide entertainment in dances, minstrel shows , and in vaudeville , during which time many marching bands were formed. Black pianists played in bars, clubs, and brothels, as ragtime developed. Ragtime appeared as sheet music, popularized by African-American musicians such as
3634-556: The entertainer Ernest Hogan , whose hit songs appeared in 1895. Two years later, Vess Ossman recorded a medley of these songs as a banjo solo known as "Rag Time Medley". Also in 1897, the white composer William Krell published his " Mississippi Rag " as the first written piano instrumental ragtime piece, and Tom Turpin published his "Harlem Rag", the first rag published by an African-American. Classically trained pianist Scott Joplin produced his " Original Rags " in 1898 and, in 1899, had an international hit with " Maple Leaf Rag ",
3713-459: The first jazz group to record, and Bix Beiderbecke was one of the most prominent jazz soloists of the 1920s. The Chicago Style was developed by white musicians such as Eddie Condon , Bud Freeman , Jimmy McPartland , and Dave Tough . Others from Chicago such as Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa became leading members of swing during the 1930s. Many bands included both Black and white musicians. These musicians helped change attitudes toward race in
3792-415: The first written music which was rhythmically based on an African motif (1803). From the perspective of African-American music, the "habanera rhythm" (also known as "congo"), "tango-congo", or tango . can be thought of as a combination of tresillo and the backbeat . The habanera was the first of many Cuban music genres which enjoyed periods of popularity in the United States and reinforced and inspired
3871-532: The habanera rhythm and cinquillo , are heard in the ragtime compositions of Joplin and Turpin. Joplin's " Solace " (1909) is generally considered to be in the habanera genre: both of the pianist's hands play in a syncopated fashion, completely abandoning any sense of a march rhythm. Ned Sublette postulates that the tresillo/habanera rhythm "found its way into ragtime and the cakewalk," whilst Roberts suggests that "the habanera influence may have been part of what freed black music from ragtime's European bass". In
3950-424: The influences of West African culture. Its composition and style have changed many times throughout the years with each performer's personal interpretation and improvisation, which is also one of the greatest appeals of the genre. By the 18th century, slaves in the New Orleans area gathered socially at a special market, in an area which later became known as Congo Square , famous for its African dances. By 1866,
4029-460: The instruments of jazz: brass, drums, and reeds tuned in the European 12-tone scale. Small bands contained a combination of self-taught and formally educated musicians, many from the funeral procession tradition. These bands traveled in black communities in the deep south. Beginning in 1914, Louisiana Creole and African-American musicians played in vaudeville shows which carried jazz to cities in
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#17328019322234108-578: The late 1950s into the 1990s. Jewish Americans played a significant role in jazz. As jazz spread, it developed to encompass many different cultures, and the work of Jewish composers in Tin Pan Alley helped shape the many different sounds that jazz came to incorporate. Jewish Americans were able to thrive in Jazz because of the probationary whiteness that they were allotted at the time. George Bornstein wrote that African Americans were sympathetic to
4187-539: The late 1950s, using the mode , or musical scale, as the basis of musical structure and improvisation, as did free jazz , which explored playing without regular meter, beat and formal structures. Jazz-rock fusion appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, combining jazz improvisation with rock music 's rhythms, electric instruments, and highly amplified stage sound. In the early 1980s, a commercial form of jazz fusion called smooth jazz became successful, garnering significant radio airplay. Other styles and genres abound in
4266-955: The many top players he employed, such as George Brunies , Sharkey Bonano , and future members of the Original Dixieland Jass Band . During the early 1900s, jazz was mostly performed in African-American and mulatto communities due to segregation laws. Storyville brought jazz to a wider audience through tourists who visited the port city of New Orleans. Many jazz musicians from African-American communities were hired to perform in bars and brothels. These included Buddy Bolden and Jelly Roll Morton in addition to those from other communities, such as Lorenzo Tio and Alcide Nunez . Louis Armstrong started his career in Storyville and found success in Chicago. Storyville
4345-413: The melody was stated briefly at the beginning and most of the piece was improvised. Modal jazz abandoned chord progressions to allow musicians to improvise even more. In many forms of jazz, a soloist is supported by a rhythm section of one or more chordal instruments (piano, guitar), double bass, and drums. The rhythm section plays chords and rhythms that outline the composition structure and complement
4424-697: The music internationally, combining syncopation with European harmonic accompaniment. In the mid-1800s the white New Orleans composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk adapted slave rhythms and melodies from Cuba and other Caribbean islands into piano salon music. New Orleans was the main nexus between the Afro-Caribbean and African American cultures. The Black Codes outlawed drumming by slaves, which meant that African drumming traditions were not preserved in North America, unlike in Cuba, Haiti, and elsewhere in
4503-583: The music of New Orleans with the music of Cuba, Wynton Marsalis observes that tresillo is the New Orleans "clavé", a Spanish word meaning "code" or "key", as in the key to a puzzle, or mystery. Although the pattern is only half a clave , Marsalis makes the point that the single-celled figure is the guide-pattern of New Orleans music. Jelly Roll Morton called the rhythmic figure the Spanish tinge and considered it an essential ingredient of jazz. The abolition of slavery in 1865 led to new opportunities for
4582-467: The northeastern United States, a "hot" style of playing ragtime had developed, notably James Reese Europe 's symphonic Clef Club orchestra in New York City, which played a benefit concert at Carnegie Hall in 1912. The Baltimore rag style of Eubie Blake influenced James P. Johnson 's development of stride piano playing, in which the right hand plays the melody, while the left hand provides
4661-618: The northern and western parts of the U.S. Jazz became international in 1914, when the Creole Band with cornettist Freddie Keppard performed the first ever jazz concert outside the United States, at the Pantages Playhouse Theatre in Winnipeg , Canada. In New Orleans, a white bandleader named Papa Jack Laine integrated blacks and whites in his marching band. He was known as "the father of white jazz" because of
4740-575: The original on February 1, 2012 . Retrieved December 6, 2016 . ^ "Grammys 2018 Nominees: The Complete List" . Billboard . Retrieved November 28, 2017 . ^ Grammy.com, 7 December 2018 ^ Grammy.com, 22 November 2019 ^ Grammy.com, 24 November 2020 ^ Grammy.com, 23 November 2021 ^ "Grammy Awards 2023: The Full List of Nominees" . The New York Times . November 15, 2022 . Retrieved November 23, 2022 . ^ Minsker, Evan (November 10, 2023). "Grammy Nominations 2024: See
4819-470: The performer may change melodies, harmonies, and time signatures. In early Dixieland , a.k.a. New Orleans jazz, performers took turns playing melodies and improvising countermelodies . In the swing era of the 1920s–40s, big bands relied more on arrangements which were written or learned by ear and memorized. Soloists improvised within these arrangements. In the bebop era of the 1940s, big bands gave way to small groups and minimal arrangements in which
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#17328019322234898-500: The period 1820–1850. Some of the earliest [Mississippi] Delta settlers came from the vicinity of New Orleans, where drumming was never actively discouraged for very long and homemade drums were used to accompany public dancing until the outbreak of the Civil War. Another influence came from the harmonic style of hymns of the church, which black slaves had learned and incorporated into their own music as spirituals . The origins of
4977-458: The perspective of other musical traditions, such as European music history or African music. But critic Joachim-Ernst Berendt argues that its terms of reference and its definition should be broader, defining jazz as a "form of art music which originated in the United States through the confrontation of the Negro with European music" and arguing that it differs from European music in that jazz has
5056-494: The plight of the Jewish American and vice versa. As disenfranchised minorities themselves, Jewish composers of popular music saw themselves as natural allies with African Americans. The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson is one example of how Jewish Americans were able to bring jazz, music that African Americans developed, into popular culture. Benny Goodman was a vital Jewish American to the progression of Jazz. Goodman
5135-459: The post-Civil War period (after 1865), African Americans were able to obtain surplus military bass drums, snare drums and fifes, and an original African-American drum and fife music emerged, featuring tresillo and related syncopated rhythmic figures. This was a drumming tradition that was distinct from its Caribbean counterparts, expressing a uniquely African-American sensibility. "The snare and bass drummers played syncopated cross-rhythms ," observed
5214-623: The pre-jazz era and contributed to the codification of jazz through the publication of some of the first jazz sheet music. The music of New Orleans , Louisiana had a profound effect on the creation of early jazz. In New Orleans, slaves could practice elements of their culture such as voodoo and playing drums. Many early jazz musicians played in the bars and brothels of the red-light district around Basin Street called Storyville . In addition to dance bands, there were marching bands which played at lavish funerals (later called jazz funerals ). The instruments used by marching bands and dance bands became
5293-537: The prominent styles. Bebop emerged in the 1940s, shifting jazz from danceable popular music toward a more challenging "musician's music" which was played at faster tempos and used more chord-based improvisation. Cool jazz developed near the end of the 1940s, introducing calmer, smoother sounds and long, linear melodic lines. The mid-1950s saw the emergence of hard bop , which introduced influences from rhythm and blues , gospel , and blues to small groups and particularly to saxophone and piano. Modal jazz developed in
5372-410: The rhythm and bassline. In Ohio and elsewhere in the mid-west the major influence was ragtime, until about 1919. Around 1912, when the four-string banjo and saxophone came in, musicians began to improvise the melody line, but the harmony and rhythm remained unchanged. A contemporary account states that blues could only be heard in jazz in the gut-bucket cabarets, which were generally looked down upon by
5451-556: The slang connotations of the term, saying: "When Broadway picked it up, they called it 'J-A-Z-Z'. It wasn't called that. It was spelled 'J-A-S-S'. That was dirty, and if you knew what it was, you wouldn't say it in front of ladies." The American Dialect Society named it the Word of the 20th Century . Jazz is difficult to define because it encompasses a wide range of music spanning a period of over 100 years, from ragtime to rock -infused fusion . Attempts have been made to define jazz from
5530-444: The soloist. In avant-garde and free jazz , the separation of soloist and band is reduced, and there is license, or even a requirement, for the abandoning of chords, scales, and meters. Since the emergence of bebop, forms of jazz that are commercially oriented or influenced by popular music have been criticized. According to Bruce Johnson, there has always been a "tension between jazz as a commercial music and an art form". Regarding
5609-500: The twice-daily ferry between both cities to perform, and the habanera quickly took root in the musically fertile Crescent City. John Storm Roberts states that the musical genre habanera "reached the U.S. twenty years before the first rag was published." For the more than quarter-century in which the cakewalk , ragtime , and proto-jazz were forming and developing, the habanera was a consistent part of African-American popular music. Habaneras were widely available as sheet music and were
5688-575: The use of tresillo-based rhythms in African-American music. New Orleans native Louis Moreau Gottschalk 's piano piece "Ojos Criollos (Danse Cubaine)" (1860) was influenced by the composer's studies in Cuba: the habanera rhythm is clearly heard in the left hand. In Gottschalk's symphonic work "A Night in the Tropics" (1859), the tresillo variant cinquillo appears extensively. The figure was later used by Scott Joplin and other ragtime composers. Comparing
5767-498: The writer Robert Palmer, speculating that "this tradition must have dated back to the latter half of the nineteenth century, and it could have not have developed in the first place if there hadn't been a reservoir of polyrhythmic sophistication in the culture it nurtured." African-American music began incorporating Afro-Cuban rhythmic motifs in the 19th century when the habanera (Cuban contradanza ) gained international popularity. Musicians from Havana and New Orleans would take
5846-500: The year's crop was harvested and several days were set aside for celebration. As late as 1861, a traveler in North Carolina saw dancers dressed in costumes that included horned headdresses and cow tails and heard music provided by a sheepskin-covered "gumbo box", apparently a frame drum; triangles and jawbones furnished the auxiliary percussion. There are quite a few [accounts] from the southeastern states and Louisiana dating from
5925-929: Was awarded as Best Improvised Jazz Solo Since 2024, it has been awarded as Best Jazz Performance Recipients [ edit ] [REDACTED] Two-time winner Ella Fitzgerald . [REDACTED] Two-time winner Bill Evans . [REDACTED] 1974 award-winner Art Tatum . [REDACTED] Two-time winner Dizzy Gillespie . [REDACTED] Four-time winner Oscar Peterson . [REDACTED] 1982 winner John Coltrane . [REDACTED] Three-time winner Miles Davis . [REDACTED] Three-time winner Wynton Marsalis . [REDACTED] Six-time winner Michael Brecker . [REDACTED] Three-time winner Herbie Hancock . [REDACTED] Two-time winner Terence Blanchard . [REDACTED] Seven-time winner Chick Corea . Year Performing artist(s) Work Nominees Ref. 1959 Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald Sings
6004-411: Was awarded as Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist From 1979 to 1988 it was awarded as Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist From 1989 to 1990 it was awarded as Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Soloist (on a jazz recording) In 1991 it was awarded as Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist From 1992 to 2008 it was awarded as Best Jazz Instrumental Solo From 2009 to 2023, it
6083-433: Was major ... , and I carried this device into my melody as well. The publication of his " Memphis Blues " sheet music in 1912 introduced the 12-bar blues to the world (although Gunther Schuller argues that it is not really a blues, but "more like a cakewalk"). This composition, as well as his later " St. Louis Blues " and others, included the habanera rhythm, and would become jazz standards . Handy's music career began in
6162-517: Was shut down by the U.S. government in 1917. Cornetist Buddy Bolden played in New Orleans from 1895 to 1906. No recordings by him exist. His band is credited with creating the big four: the first syncopated bass drum pattern to deviate from the standard on-the-beat march. As the example below shows, the second half of the big four pattern is the habanera rhythm. Grammy Awards of 1959 The 1st Annual Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959. They recognized musical accomplishments by performers for
6241-536: Was the leader of a racially integrated band named King of Swing. His jazz concert in the Carnegie Hall in 1938 was the first ever to be played there. The concert was described by Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history". Shep Fields also helped to popularize "Sweet" Jazz music through his appearances and Big band remote broadcasts from such landmark venues as Chicago's Palmer House , Broadway's Paramount Theater and
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