1991 Grammy Awards

Awards
- 1991 Music Awards
-- Grammy Awards

--- 1991 Grammy Awards

Details & Performances

  • Host: Garry Shandling
  • Venue: Radio City Music Hall
  • City: New York City
  • Date: February 20, 1991

Awards

Album of the Year

Best Album Notes

  • Clifford Brown - Brownie: The Complete Emarcy Recordings of Clifford Brown
  • Art Pepper - Art Pepper: The Complete Galaxy Recordings
  • Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley - The Chess Box
  • Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters - The Chess Box
  • Jack Kerouac - The Jack Kerouac Collection

Best Album Package

Best Alternative Music Performance

Best Arrangement on an Instrumental

  • Quincy Jones, various artists - Birdland
  • John Williams - Born on the Fourth of July
  • Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra - Brush This
  • Henry Mancini & the Mancini Pops Orchestra - Monster Movie Music Suite
  • Chick Corea Elektric Band - Tale of Daring

Best Bluegrass Recording

Best Chamber Music or other Small Ensemble Performance

  • Itzhak Perlman, violin; Daniel Barenboim, piano - Brahms: The 3 Violin Sonatas (No. 1, Op. 78; No. 2, Op. 100; No. 3, Op. 108)
  • Mona Golabek, piano; Andres Cardenes, violin; Jeffrey Solow, cello - Arensky: Piano Trio No. 2 in D Minor; Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor
  • Richard Stoltzman, clarinet; Richard Goode, piano; Lucy Chapman Stoltzman, violin - Bartok: Contrasts; Stravinksy: L'Histoire du Soldat - Suite; Ives: Largo; Songs
  • Kronos Quartet - Crumb: Black Angels; Tallis: Spem in Alium; Marta: Doom, A Sigh; Ives: They Are There!; Shostakovich
  • Juilliard String Quartet: Benita Valente, Jan DeGaetani, Jon Humphrey, Thomas Paul - Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ

Best Choral Performance

  • Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Orchestra - Walton: Belshazzar's Feast; Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Missa Brevis
  • John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Monteverdi Choir, London Oratory Junior Choir and English Baroque Soloists - Bach: St. Matthew Passion
  • Nicholas McGegan conducting the U.C. Berkeley Chamber Chorus, Philip Brett, choral conductor, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Handel: Susanna
  • Robert Shaw conducting the Robert Shaw Festival Singers - Rachmaninov: Vespers
  • Bernard Haitink conducting the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 1 (Sea Symphony)

Best Classical Album

  • Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic - Ives: Symphony No. 2; The Gong on the Hookd and Ladder (Fireman's Parade on Main Street); Central Park in the Dark; The Unanswered Question
  • Gerard Schwarz conducting the Seattle Symphony and New York Chamber Symphony (Carol Rosenberger, piano) - Hanson: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 6; Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Youth
  • John Adams conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's (Sanford Sylvan, baritone) - Adams: Fearful Symmetries: The Wound-Dresser
  • Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, tenors; Zubin Mehta conducting the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti in Concert
  • Robert Shaw conducting the Robert Shaw Festival Singers - Rachmaninov: Vespers
  • Vladimir Horowitz, piano - The Last Recording (Chopin, Hayden, Liszt, Wagner)

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist without Orchestra

  • Vladimir Horowitz, piano - The Last Recording (Chopin, Haydn, Liszt, Wagner)
  • Ursula Oppens, piano - Carter: Night Fantasies; Adams: Phrygian Gates
  • Mitsuko Uchida, piano - Debussy: 12 Piano Etudes
  • Alicia de Larrocha, piano - Mozart: Piano Sonatas K. 283, 331, 332, 333
  • Midori, violin - Paganini: 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) with Orchestra

  • Itzhak Perlman, violin (Zubin Mehta conducting the Israel Philharmonic) - Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor; Glazunov: Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 82
  • Carol Rosenberger, piano (Gerard Schwarz conducting the New York Chamber Symphony) - Hanson: Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Youth
  • Garrick Ohlsson, piano (Gerard Schwarz conducting the Seattle Symphony) - Lazarof: Tableaux (After Kandinsky) for Piano and Orchestra
  • Paul Crossley, piano (Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the London Sinfonietta) - Stravinsky: Works for Piano and Orchestra (Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Capricco for Piano and
  • Rolf Smedvig, trumpet (Jahja Ling conducting the Scottish Chamber Orchestra) - Trumpet Concertos (Hayden, Hummel, Tartini, Torelli, Bellini)

Best Classical Vocal Performance

  • Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, tenors (Zubin Mehta conducting the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma) - Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti in Concert
  • Sanford Sylvan, baritone (John Adams conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's) - Adams: The Wound-Dresser
  • Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano (David Effron conducting the Eastman Chamber Ensemble) - Berlioz: Les Nuits d Ete, Op. 7; Mahler: 5 Wunderhorn Songs and 5 Ruckert Songs
  • Elly Ameling, soprano (Graham Johnson, accompanist) - Schubert: The Complete Songs, Vol. 7
  • Thomas Hampson, baritone (Geoffry Parsons, accompanist) - Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Mahler, Brahms, Schumann, Loewe, Strauss, Zemlinsky, von Weber)

Best Comedy Recording

  • Professor Peter Schickele - P.D.Q Bach: Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities
  • Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding - The Best of Bob and Ray: Selections from a Career, Vol. 4
  • Garrison Keillor - More News from Lake Wobegon
  • Jonathan Winters - Jonathan Winters into the ...'90s
  • various artists - The Best of Comic Relief '90

Best Contemporary Blues Recording

  • Vaughan Brothers - Family Style
  • B.B. King, Lee Atwater - Red Hot & Blue
  • Etta James - Stickin' to My Guns
  • Koko Taylor - Jump for Joy
  • The Robert Cray Band featuring the Memphis Horns - Midnight Stroll

Best Contemporary Composition

  • Leonard Bernstein - Arias and Barcarolles
  • Ellen Taaffe Zwillich - Symphony No. 2
  • Henri Lazarof - Tableuax (After Kandinsky) for Piano and Orchestra
  • John Adams - The Wound-Dresser
  • Terry Riley - Salome Dances for Peace

Best Contemporary Folk Recording

Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album

  • Take 6 - So Much 2 Say
  • Daryl Coley - He's Right on Time/Live from Los Angeles
  • Edwin Hawkins - Face to Face
  • Richard Smallwood Singers - Portrait
  • Winans - Return

Best Country & Western Collaboration

  • Chet Atkins, Mark Knopfler - Poor Boy Blues
  • Randy Travis, George Jones - A Few Ole Country Boys
  • Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash - Highwayman 2
  • Keith Whitley, Lorrie Morgan - Till a Tear Becomes a Rose
  • Randy Travis, B.B. King - Waiting on the Light to Change

Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance

  • Chet Atkins, Mark Knopfler - So Soft Your Goodbye
  • David Grisman - Dawg '90
  • Asleep at the Wheel - Pedernales Stroll
  • Foster & Lloyd - Whoa
  • Wild Rose - Wild Rose

Best Country & Western Song

  • Jon Vezner, Don Henry - Where've You Been
  • DeWayne Blackwell, Earl Bud Lee - Friends in Low Places
  • K.T. Oslin, Rory Michael Bourke, Charlie Black - Come Next Monday
  • Tony Arata - The Dance
  • Vince Gill, Tim DuBois - When I Call Your Name

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 Robert Shaw Festival Singers - Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E Flat (Symphony of a Thousand)
  • Kronos Quartet - Crumb: Black Angels; Tallis: Spem in Alium; Marta: Doom. A Sigh; Ives: They Are There!; Shostakovich
  • Lorin Maazel conducting the Vienna Philharmonic; Vienna State Opera Chorus; Vienna Boys' Chorus; ORF Chorus and Arnold Schoenberg Choir - Rachmaninov: Vespers
  • Leonard Bernstein conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 1, Op. 10, and No. 7 (Leningrad), Op. 60
  • Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8, Op. 65

Best Hard Rock Performance

Best Historical Album

  • Robert Johnson - Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings
  • Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra - Verdi: Aida, Falstaff, Requiem, Te Deum, Va, Pensiero, Hymn of the Nations
  • Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9 and Leonore Overture No. 3
  • Clifford Brown - Brownie: The Complete Emarcy Recordings of Clifford Brown
  • Jack Kerouac - The Jack Kerouac Collection

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)

Best Instrumental Composition

  • Pat Metheny - Change of Heart
  • Bela Fleck - The Sinister Minister
  • Harry Connick Jr., Joe Livingston - One Last Pitch (Take Two)
  • Kenny G, Walter Aranasieff - Going Home
  • Pat Metheny - The Chief

Best Instrumental Composition written for a Motion Picture or Television

  • James Horner - Glory
  • Danny Elfman - Dick Tracy Original Score
  • Hans Zimmer - Driving Miss Daisy - End Titles
  • Alan Menken - The Little Mermaid - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
  • Angelo Badalamenti - Soundtrack from Twin Peaks

Best Jazz Fusion Performance

  • Quincy Jones, various artists - Birdland
  • Stan Getz - Apasionado
  • Spyro Gyra - Fast Forward
  • Chick Corea Elektric Band - Inside Out
  • Lee Ritenour - Stolen Moments

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Big Band

  • Count Basie Orchestra - Basie's Bag
  • Louie Bellson - Airmail Special
  • Lionel Hampton and His Big Band - Cookin' in the Kitchen
  • Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra - The Definitive Thad Jones, Vol. 2, Live from the Village Vanguard
  • Bob Florence Limited Edition - Treasure Chest

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Group

  • Oscar Peterson Trio - The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note
  • Branford Marsalis Quartet featuring Terence Blanchard - Again Never
  • Art Blakey, Dr. John, David Fathead Newman - Bluesiana Triangle
  • Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie - Max and Dizzy - Paris 1989
  • Wynton Marsalis Group - Standard Time, Vol. 3 - The Resolution of Romance

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Soloist

  • Oscar Peterson - The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note
  • Stan Getz - Anniversary
  • George Benson - Basie's Bag
  • Branford Marsalis - Crazy People Music
  • Miles Davis - The Hot Spot

Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Female

  • Ella Fizgerald - All That Jazz
  • Carmen McRae - Carmen Sings Monk
  • Betty Carter - Droppin' Things
  • Dianne Reeves - I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
  • Peggy Lee - The Peggy Lee Songbook - There'll Be Another Spring

Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Male

Best Latin Pop Performance

Best Metal Performance

  • Metallica - Stone Cole Crazy
  • Suicidal Tendencies - Lights ...Camera ...Revolution
  • Judas Priest - Painkiller Lyrics
  • Anthrax - Persistence of Time
  • Megadeth - Rust in Peace

Best Mexican-American Performance

  • Texas Tornados - Soy de San Luis
  • Mazz - Amor con Amor
  • Santiago Jimenez Jr. - Familia y Tradicion
  • Vincente Fernandez - Las Clasicas de Jose Alfredo Jimenez
  • Los Diablos - Nuestro Tiempo

Best Music Video - Long Form

  • M.C. Hammer - Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em , the Movie
  • Eurythmics - We Too Are One Too
  • The Who - Live - Featuring the Rock Opera Tommy
  • Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein in Berlin, Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
  • Phil Collins - The Singles Collection

Best Music Video - Short Form

Best New Age Performance

  • Mark Isham - Mark Isham
  • Mysterious Voices of Bulgaria - Balkan
  • Acoustic Alchemy - Caravan of Dreams
  • Paul Winter - Earth: Voices of a Planet
  • Michael Hedges - Taproot
  • Manheim Steamroller - Yellowstone - The Music of Nature

Best Opera Recording

  • James Levine conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (solos: Morris, Ludwig, Jerusalem, Wlaschiha, Moll, Zednik, Rootering) - Wagner: Das Rheingold
  • John Maurceri conducting the RIAS Berlin Sinfonietta Berlin (solos: Lemper, Kollo, Milva, Adori, Denesch) - Weill: The Threepenny Opera
  • Kent Nagano conducting the Orchestra of the Opera de Lyon and Chorus (solos: Bacquier, Viala, Gautier, Dubosc, Bastin) - Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges
  • Mstislav Rostropovich conducting the National Symphony Orchestra (solos: Raimondi, Vichnevskaia, Gedda, Plishka, Riegel, Tesarowicz) - Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
  • Richardo Muti conducting the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala (solos: Ramey, Studer, Shicoff, Zancaro) - Verdi: Attila

Best Orchestral Performance

  • Leonard Bernstein conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 1, Op. 10, and No. 7 (Leningrad), Op. 60
  • Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphonies No. 7 in A and No. 8 in F
  • Gerard Schwarz conducting the Seattle Symphony Orchestra - Hanson: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 6
  • Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic - Ives: Symphony No. 2; The Gong on the Hook and Ladder (Fireman's Parade on Main Street); Central Par
  • Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8, Op. 65

Best Polka Recording

  • Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra - When It's Polka Time at Your House
  • Jimmy Weber & the Sounds - Sounds from the Heart
  • Polka Family Band - Fiddle Faddle
  • Toledo Polkamotion - Grand Illusion
  • Eddie Blazoncyzk's Versatones - Everybody Polka

Best Pop Gospel Album

  • Sandi Patti - Another Time ...Another Place
  • First Call - God Is Good
  • Michael W. Smith - Go West Young Man
  • Phil Driscoll - Warriors
  • Steven Curtis Chapman - More to This Life

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

Best Rap Performance - Duo or Group

Best Rap Performance - Solo

Best Recording for Children

  • Howard Ashman, Alan Menken - The Little Mermaid (selections from film soundtrack)
  • Doc Watson - Doc Watson Sings Songs for Little Pickers
  • various artists - The Rock-A-Bye Collection, Vol. 2

Best Reggae Recording

  • Bunny Wailer - Time Will Tell - A Tribute to Bob Marley
  • Andrew Tosh - Make Place for the Youth
  • Black Uhuru - Now
  • Burning Spear - Mek We Dweet
  • Toots & the Maytals - An Hour Live

Best Rhythm & Blues Song

  • James Miller, M.C. Hammer - U Can't Touch This
  • George Johnson, Louis Johnson, Sonora Sam - I'll Be Good to You
  • Janet Jackson, James Harris III, Terry Lewis - Alright
  • L.A. Reid, Babyface, Daryl Simmons - My, My, My
  • Terry Steele, David L. Elliott - Here and Now

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Duo or Group

  • Ray Charles, Chaka Khan - I'll Be Good to You
  • En Vogue - Born to Sing
  • After 7 - Can't Stop Lyrics
  • Was (Not Was) - Papa Was a Rolling Stone
  • Al B. Sure!, James Ingram, El DeBarge, Barry White - The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Male

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

  • Vaughan Brothers - D/FW
  • Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom
  • Joe Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream
  • Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
  • Allman Brothers Band - True Gravity

Best Rock/Contemporary Gospel Album

  • Petra - Beyond Belief
  • Charlie Peacock - The Secret of Time
  • Eddie Degarmo - Phase II
  • Mylon & Broken Heart - Crank It Up
  • Phil Keaggy - Find Me in These Fields

Best Song written specifically for a Motion Picture or Television

  • Alan Menken, Howard Ashman - Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)
  • Alan Menken, Howard Ashman - Kiss the Girl (The Little Mermaid)
  • Jon Bon Jovi - Blaze of Glory (Young Guns II)
  • Stephen Sondheim - Sooner or Later (Dick Tracy)
  • Stephen Sondheim - More (Dick Tracy)

Best Southern Gospel Album

  • Bruce Carroll - The Great Exchange
  • Happy Goodman Family - The Reunion
  • J.D. Sumner & the Stamps - Victory Road
  • Nelons - Let the Redeemed Say So
  • Speers - He's Still in the Fire

Best Spoken Word or Nonmusical Recording

  • George Burns - Gracie: A Love Story
  • Garrison Keillor - A Prairie Home Companion: The 4th Annual Farewell Performance
  • Jimmy Stewart - Jimmy Stewart and His Poems
  • John F. Kennedy Jr. - Profiles in Courage (John F. Kennedy)
  • Kyle MacLachlan - Diane... The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper

Best Traditional Blues Recording

  • B.B. King - Live at San Quentin
  • Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Standing My Ground
  • John Lee Hooker, Earl Palmer, Tim Drummond, Miles Davis, Roy Rogers - Coming to Town
  • Little Milton - Too Much Pain...
  • Ruth Brown, Linda Hopkins - Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do

Best Traditional Folk Recording

  • Doc Watson - On Praying Ground
  • Basin Brothers - Let's Get Cajun
  • Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Classic Tracks
  • Toinho de Alagoas, Duda da Passira, Jose Orlando, Heleno Dos Oito Baixos - Brazil Forro: Music for Maids and Taxi Drivers
  • various artists - Partisans of Vilna: Songs of World War II Jewish Resistance
  • Whitstein Brothers - Old Time Duets

Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album

  • Tramaine Hawkins - Tramaine Hawkins Live
  • Clark Sisters - Bringing It Back Home
  • Mom & Pop Winans - Mom and Pop Winans
  • Ron Winans Family & Friends Choir - Ron Winans Presents Family and Friends Choir II
  • Shirley Caesar - I Remember Mama

Best Tropical Latin Performance

  • Tito Puente - Lambada Timbales
  • Luis Enrique - Amiga
  • Willie Colon - Color Americano
  • Poncho Sanchez - Mama Guela
  • Tito Puente, Millie P. - Tito Puente Presents Millie P.

Classical Producer of the Year

  • Adam Stern
  • Michael Fine
  • Max Wilcox
  • Judith Sherman
  • Hans Weber