1989 Grammy Awards

Awards
- 1989 Music Awards
-- Grammy Awards

--- 1989 Grammy Awards

Details & Performances

  • Host: Billy Crystal
  • Venue: Shrine Auditorium
  • City: Los Angeles
  • Date: February 22, 1989

Awards

Album of the Year

  • George Michael - Faith Lyrics
  • Bobby McFerrin - Simple Pleasures
  • Steve Winwood - Roll With It
  • Sting - ...Nothing Like the Sun
  • Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

Best Album Notes

  • Eric Clapton - Crossroads
  • Frederica von Stade, Jerry Hadley, Teresa Stratas, Nancy Culp, Lillian Gish & others; John McGlinn conducting the London Sinfonietta - Show Boat
  • Hoagy Carmichael - Classic Hoagy Carmichael Lyrics
  • Virginia Traditions - Southwest Virginia Blues

Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score written for a Motion Picture or Television

  • Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, Cong Su - The Last Emperor
  • Alan Silvestri - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  • Joe Jackson - Tucker: The Man and His Dream
  • John Williams - Empire of the Sun
  • Maurice Jarre - Fatal Attraction

Best Album Package

Best Arrangement on an Instrumental

  • Eddie Daniels - Memos from Paradise
  • Turtle Island String Quartet - A Night in Tunisia
  • John Dankworth conducting the London Symphony Orchestra - Caravan
  • Flim & the BB's - Jazz Patrol
  • Henry Manicin & R.P.O. Pops - Suite from The Thorn Birds

Best Bluegrass Recording - Vocal or Instrumental

  • Bill Monroe - Southern Flavor Lyrics
  • Bela Fleck - Drive
  • David Grisman - Home Is Where the Heart Is
  • Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band - New Moon Rising
  • Seldom Scene & Their Very Special Guests - Fifteenth Anniversary Celebration, Live at the Kennedy Center

Best Chamber Music Performance - Vocal or Instrumental

  • Murray Perahia, George Solti, pianos; David Corkhill, Evelyn Glennie, percussion - Bartok: Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion; Brahms: Variation on a Theme by Joseph Haydn for 2 Piano
  • Gidon Kremer, violin; Martha Argerich, piano - Beethoven: Violin-Piano Sonatas No. 4 in A, Op. 23, and No. 5 in F, Op. 24
  • Guarneri Quartet - Dvorak: String Quartet in F (American Quartet); Smetana: String Quartet in E Minor (From My Life)
  • Kim Kashkashian, viola; Robert Levin, piano - Hindemith: Viola Sonata Op. 11, No. 4; Violin Sonata, 4; Op. 25, No. 4; Violin Sonatas, 1937
  • James Levine, piano; Ensemble Wien-Berlin - Mozart: Quintet in E Flat for Piano and Winds, K. 452; Beethoven: Quintet in E Flat for Piano and Wi

Best Choral Performance

  • Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus - Verdi: Requiem and Operatic Choruses
  • John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque Soloists - Bach: Christmas Oratorio
  • Margaret Hillis, choral director; Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra - Bach: St. Matthew Passion
  • Helmuth Froschauer, chorus master; Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Singverein and Vienna Philharmonic - Mozart: Requiem
  • Trevor Pinnock conducting the English Concert Choir and English Concert - Vivaldi: Gloria; Scarlatti: Dixit Dominus

Best Classical Album

  • Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus - Verdi: Requiem and Operatic Choruses
  • Georg Solti conducting the Vienna State Opera Choir and Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Placido Domingo, Jessye Norman, Eva Randova, Siegmund Nimsgern, Hans Sotin, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau) - Wagner: Lohengrin
  • Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic - Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Resurrection)
  • Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for String Symphony; Louis Lane conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for Sunday Morning, &quo - Rorem: String Symphony; Sunday Morning; Eagles
  • Vladimir Horowitz, piano; Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the La Scala Opera Orchestra - Horowitz Plays Mozart (Piano Concerto No. 23 in A and Piano Sonata No. 13 in B Flat)

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) with Orchestra

  • Vladimir Horowitz, piano (Carlo Maria Giulini conducting La Scala Opera Orchestra) - Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A
  • Wynton Marsalis, trumpet (Raymond Leppard conducting the English Chamber Orchestra) - Baroque Music for Trumpets (Vivaldi, Telemann, Pachelbel, Haydn, von Biber)
  • Zoltan Kocsis, piano (Ivan Fischer conducting the Budapest Festival Orchestra) - Bartok: Works for Piano and Orchestra (Concerto No. 1, Concerto No. 2, Rhapsody for Piano and Orches
  • Isaac Stern, violin; Yo-Yo Ma, cello (Claudio Abbado conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) - Brahms: Double Concerto in A Minor, Op. 102
  • Itzhak Perlman, violin (Zubin Mehta conducting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra) - Bruch: Scottish Fantasy and Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor
  • Isaac Stern, violin (Lorin Maazel conducting the Orchestre National de France) - Dutilleux: L'Arbre des Songes - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
  • Gary Gray, clarinet (Harry Newstone conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) - The Art of Gary Gray (Copland: Clarinet Concerto; Lutoslawski: Dance Preludes for Clarinet and Orche

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) without Orchestra

  • Alicia de Larrocha, piano - Albeniz: Iberia; Navarra; Suite Espagnola
  • Keith Jarrett, piano - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
  • Alfred Brendel, piano - Liszt: Annees de Pelerinage, Second Year: Italy
  • Vladimir Horowitz, piano - Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 13 in B Flat, K. 333
  • Maurizio Pollini, piano - Schubert: The Late Piano Sonatas (D. 958, 959, 960); 3 Piano Pieces, D. 946; Allegretto, D. 915

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist

  • Luciano Pavarotti, tenor (Emerson Buckley conducting the Symphonic Orchestra of Amelia Romagna Arturo Toscanini) - Luciano Pavarotti in Concert (arias from Lucia de Lammermoor, Rigoletto, La Boheme, Fedora, Turandot
  • Jessye Norman, soprano (Geoffrey Parsons, accompanist) - Handel, Schubert, Schumann: Lieder (Jessye Norman - Live at Hohenems)
  • Arleen Auger, soprano (Dalton Baldwin, accompanist) - Love Songs (Copland, R. Strauss, Poulenc, Mahler, Schumann, Gounod, Schubert)
  • Christa Ludwig, soprano (James Levine, accompanist) - Schubert: Winterreise
  • Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano (Gilbert Kalish, accompanist) - Songs of America (Stephen Foster, Elliott Carter, Ruth Crawford, Milton Babbitt, George Crumb, Carri

Best Comedy Recording

  • Robin Williams - Good Morning, Vietnam
  • George Carlin - What Am I Doing in New Jersey?
  • Jonathan Winters - Jonathan Winters Finally Captured
  • Weird Al Yankovic - Even Worse
  • Whoopi Goldberg - Fontaine: Why Am I Straight?

Best Contemporary Blues Recording

  • Robert Cray Band - Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
  • Bobby Bland - Blues You Can Use
  • Etta James - Seven Year Itch
  • Robben Ford - Talk to Your Daughter
  • Ry Cooder - LOW-COMMOTION Lyrics

Best Contemporary Composition

  • Edo de Waart conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's - Nixon in China
  • Leonard Bernstein conducting the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra; soloists - A Quiet Place
  • Suzanne Stephens, clarinet - Amour
  • Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra - String Symphony
  • Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Orchestra; Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano - Symphony No. 4

Best Contemporary Folk Recording

  • Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
  • John Prine - John Prine Live
  • Michelle Shocked - Short Sharp Shocked
  • Sweet Honey in the Rock - Emergency

Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance

  • Asleep at the Wheel - Sugarfoot Rag
  • Leo Kottke - Busy Signal
  • Mason Williams & Mannheim Steamroller - Country Idyll
  • Johnny Gimble - Still Fiddlin' Around
  • Carlton Moody & the Moody Brothers - The Great Train Song Medley

Best Country & Western Song

Best Country & Western Vocal Collaboration

  • Roy Orbison, k.d. lang - Crying
  • k.d. lang, Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, Kitty Wells - Honky Tonk Angels' Medley
  • Rodney Crowell, Rosanne Cash - It's Such a Small World
  • Dwight Yoakan, Buck Owens - Streets of Bakersfield
  • Earl Thomas Conley, Emmylou Harris - We Believe in Happy Endings

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Duo or Group

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male

Best Engineered Recording

Best Engineered Recording - Classical

  • Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Orchestra - Verdi: Requiem and Operatic Choruses
  • Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Orchestra - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis; Mozart: Great C Minor Mass
  • Bernard Haitink conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra - Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies (Complete)
  • Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E
  • Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic - Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection)

Best Gospel Performance - Duo, Group, Choir or Chorus

  • Winans - The Winans Live at Carnegie Hall
  • First Call - An Evening in December, Vol. 2
  • DeGarmo & Key - D&K
  • Whites - Doing It by the Book
  • BeBe & CeCe Winans - Silent Night, Holy Night

Best Gospel Performance - Female

  • Amy Grant - Lead Me On Lyrics
  • Deniece Williams - Do You Hear What I Hear?
  • Delores Winans - Precious Is the Name
  • Margaret Becker - The Reckoning
  • Sandi Patti - Almighty God

Best Gospel Performance - Male

  • Larnelle Harris - Christmas
  • Steve Green - Find Us Faithful
  • Michael W. Smith - I 2 (Eye)
  • Steven Curtis Chapman - Real Life Conversations
  • Russ Taff - Russ Taff

Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance - Vocal or Instrumental

Best Historical Album

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)

  • Cleo Laine - No One Is Alone
  • Boz Scaggs - Funny
  • Lena Horne, Sammy Davis Jr. - I Wish I'd Met You
  • Thomas Dolby - The Keys to Her Ferrari
  • Luciano Pavarotti - Volare Lyrics

Best Instrumental Composition

  • Mike Post - Mike Post
  • Chick Corea Elektric Band - Chick Corea
  • Vancouver Symphony - David Foster
  • John Williams - track from 1988 Summer Olympics album - John Williams

Best Jazz Fusion Performance

  • Yellowjackets - Politics
  • Tom Scott - Amaretto
  • David Benoit - Every Step of the Way
  • John Patitucci - John Patitucci
  • Lyle Mays - Sweet Dreams

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Big Band

  • Gil Evans & the Monday Night Orchestra - Bud and Bird
  • Bill Holman Band - Bill Holman Band
  • Woody Herman's Thundering Herd - Ebony
  • Illinois Jacquet & His Big Band - Jacquet's Got It!
  • Gene Harris All-Star Big Band - Tribute to Count Basie

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Group

  • McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, David Murray, Cecil McBee, Roy Haynes - Blues for Coltrane: A Tribute to John Coltrane
  • Chick Corea Elektric Band - Amnesia
  • Branford Marsalis Quartet - Random Abstract
  • Keith Jarrett Trio - Still Live
  • Wynton Marsalis Quartet - The Wynton Marsalis Quartet Live at Blues Alley

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Soloist

  • Michael Brecker - Don't Try This at Home
  • Rob Wasserman - Duets
  • Miles Davis - Music from Siesta
  • Branford Marsalis - Random Abstract
  • Wynton Marsalis - The Wynton Marsalis Quartet Live at Blues Alley

Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Duo or Group

  • Take 6 - Spread Love
  • Lena Horne, Joe Williams - I Won't Leave You Again
  • Jackie Cain, Roy Krat - One More Rose
  • Cunninghams - Strings 'n' Swing I Remember Bird
  • Carmen McRae, Betty Carter - The Carmen McRae-Betty Carter Duets

Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Female

  • Betty Carter - Look What I Got!
  • Rickie Lee Jones - Autumn Leaves
  • Carmen McRae - Fine and Mellow
  • Peggy Lee - Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues
  • Lena Horne - The Men in My Life

Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Male

  • Bobby McFerrin - Brothers
  • Mel Torme - A Vintage Year
  • Mose Allison - Every Since the World Ended
  • Joao Gilberto - Live in Montreaux
  • Mark Murphy - September Ballads

Best Latin Pop Performance

  • Roberto Carlos - Roberto Carlos
  • Dyango - Cae la Noche
  • Raphael - Las Apariencias Enganan
  • Jose Jose - Soy Asi
  • Jose Luis Perales - Sueno de Libertad

Best Mexican-American Performance

  • Linda Ronstadt - Canciones de Mi Padre
  • Flaco Jimenez - Flaco's Amigos
  • Los Tigres del Norte - Idolos del Pueblo
  • Jose Javier Solis - No Me Olvidaras
  • Los Yonics - Petalo y Espinas
  • Pio Trevino & Majic - Quiero Verte Otra Vez
  • Los Bukis - Si Me Recuerdas
  • Los Freddy's - Vida Nueva

Best Musical Cast Show Album

  • Bernadette Peters, Joanna Gleason, Chip Zien, Tom Aldredge, Robert Westenberg. Stephen Sondheim, music and lyrics - Into the Woods
  • Frederica von Stade, Jerry Hadley, Teresa Stratas, Nancy Culp, Lillian Gish, others. John McGlinn conducting the London Sinfonietta. Jerome Kern, composer; Oscar Hammerstein, lyricist - Show Boat
  • Maureen McGovern, Larry Kert, Jack Gilford. Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the New York Choral Artists & Orchestra of St. Luke's. George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin - Of Thee I Sing/Let 'Em Eat Cake

Best New Age Performance

  • Shadowfax - Folksongs for a Nuclear Village
  • Mark Isham - Castalia
  • Paul Winter - Down in Belgorod
  • Steve Khan, Rob Mounsey - Local Color
  • Suzanne Ciani - Neverland

Best Opera Recording

  • Georg Solti conducting the Vienna State Opera Choir and Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Placido Domingo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Siegmund Nimsgern, Jessye Norman, Eva Randova, Hans Sotin) - Wagner: Lohengrin
  • Edo de Waart conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's (solos: Sanford Sylvan, James Maddalena, Thomas Hammons, John Duykers, Carolann Page) - Adams: Nixon in China
  • John Pritchard conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Luciano Pavarotti, Agnes Baltsa, Lucia Popp, Edita Gruberova, Leo Nucci) - Mozart: Idomeneo
  • Leonard Bernstein conducting the Austrian Radio Symphony (solos: Chester Ludgin, Beverly Morgan, John Brandstetter, Peter Kazaras, Jean Kraft, Wendy White) - Bernstein, Wadsworth: A Quiet Place
  • Leonard Bernstein conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of Santa Cecilia (solos: Angelina Reaux, Jerry Hadley, Barbara Daniels, Thomas Hampson) - Puccini: La Boheme
  • Richard Bonynge conducting the Welsh National Opera Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballe, Samuel Ramey) - Bellini: Norma

Best Orchestral Recording

  • Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Sunday Morning, Eagles, Louis Lane conducting the Atlanta Symphony - Rorem: String Symphony
  • Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E
  • Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic - Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Resurrection)
  • Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra - Copland: Appalachian Spring (Complete); Letter from Home; John Henry; Cortege Macabre from Grohg
  • Roger Norrington conducting the London Classical Players - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor

Best Polka Recording

  • Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra - Born to Polka
  • Jimmy Weber & the Sounds - Sounds from a Polka Party
  • Lenny Gomulka's Chicago Push - Join the Polka Generation
  • Stas Bulanda's Average Polka Band - Let's Have a Party
  • Walter Ostanek & His Band - All Aboard It's Polka Time

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

  • David Sanborn - Close-Up
  • Joe Satriani - Always with Me, Always with You
  • Mike Post - Music from L.A. Law and Otherwise
  • M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up the Volume
  • Kenny G - Silhouette

Best Rap Performance

Best Recording for Children

  • Candle - The Bible: The Amazing Book

Best Reggae Recording

  • Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers - Conscious Party
  • Jimmy Cliff - Hanging Fire
  • Toots - Toots in Memphis
  • UB40 - UB40
  • UB40, Chrissie Hynde - Breakfast in Bed

Best Rhythm & Blues Instrumental Performance

  • Chick Corea - Light Years
  • Cornell Dupree & Who It Is - Coast to Coast
  • Paul Jackson Jr. - I Came to Play
  • George Howard - Reflections
  • Gerald Albright - So Amazing
  • Doc Powell - What's Going On

Best Rhythm & Blues Song

  • Anita Baker, Skip Scarborough - Giving You the Best That I Got
  • Babyface, L.A. Reid, Daryl Simmons - Don't Be Cruel
  • Jimmy George - I'll Always Love You
  • Johnny Kemp, Gene Griffin - Just Got Paid
  • Luther Vandross, Marcus Miller - Any Love

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Duo or Group

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Male

  • Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby
  • Luther Vandross - Any Love Lyrics
  • Stevie Wonder - Characters
  • Teddy Pendergrass - Joy
  • Al B. Sure - Nite and Day

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

Best Song written specifically for a Motion Picture or Television

  • Phil Collins - Two Hearts (Buster)
  • Whitney Houston - One Moment in Time (1988 Summer Olympic Album One Moment in Time)
  • Beach Boys - Kokomo (Cocktail)

Best Soul Gospel Performance - Duo, Group, Choir or Chorus

  • Take 6 - Take 6
  • Clark Sisters - Conqueror
  • New Jersey Mass Choir - Hold Up the Light
  • Aretha Franklin, Mavis Staples - Oh Happy Days
  • Ronald Winans Family & Friends Choir - Ron Winans Family and Friends Choir
  • Edwin Hawkins - That Name

Best Soul Gospel Performance - Female

  • Aretha Franklin - One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism
  • CeCe Winans - I Have a Father
  • Shirley Caesar - Live ...in Chicago
  • Vanessa Bell Armstrong - Pressing On
  • Tremaine Hawkins - The Joy That Floods My Soul

Best Soul Gospel Performance - Male

  • BeBe Winans - Abundant Life
  • Melvin Williams - Back to the Cross
  • Marvin Winans - Dancin' in the Spirit
  • Walter Hawkins - solo tracks from Special Gift
  • Richard Smallwood - You Did It All

Best Spoken Word or Nonmusical Recording

  • Rev. Jesse Jackson - Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson, July 27 - track from Aretha Franklin's One Lord, One Faith, One Baptis
  • John Gielgud - A Christmas Carol
  • Jonathan Winters - Winters' Tale
  • various artists, Garrison Keillor - A Prairie Home Companion: The 2nd Annual Farewell Performance
  • John Cleese - The Screwtape Letters

Best Traditional Blues Recording

  • Willie Dixon - Hidden Charms
  • Guitar Slim Jr. - The Story of My Life
  • James Cotton - Live at Antone's Nightclub
  • Johnny Copeland - Ain't Nothin' but a Party
  • Rockin' Dopsie - Saturday Night Zydecko

Best Traditional Folk Recording

  • various artists - Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly
  • Bob Dylan - Pretty Boy Floyd
  • Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir - Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares
  • Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Journey of Dreams
  • Van Morrison, Chieftains - Irish Heartbeat

Best Tropical Latin Performance

  • Ruben Blades, Son de Solar - Antecedente
  • Oscar D'Leon - La Salsa Soy Yo
  • Pete Escovedo - Mister E.
  • Johnny Pacheco, Pete El Conde Rodriguez - Salsobita
  • Eddie Santiago - Sigo Astrevido

Classical Producer of the Year

  • Robert Woods
  • Thomas Frost
  • Andrew Cornall
  • Joanna Nickrenz
  • Steven Epstein

Hall of Fame

  • Artur Schnabel & Malcolm Sargent conducting the London Symphony (1,5) & London Philharmonic (2, 3, 4) - Beethoven: Concertos for Pianos Nos. 1-5
  • Bela Bartok, piano; Joseph Szigeti, violin; Benny Goodman, clarinet - Bartok: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano
  • Billie Holiday - Love Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
  • Charlie Parker Sextet - Ornithology
  • Woody Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land Lyrics

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