1998 Grammy Awards

Awards
- 1998 Music Awards
-- Grammy Awards

--- 1998 Grammy Awards

Details & Performances

  • Host: Kelsey Grammer
  • Venue: Radio City Music Hall
  • City: New York City
  • Date: February 25, 1998

Awards

Album of the Year

Alternative Music

Bluegrass Album

  • Alison Krauss, Union Station - So Long So Wrong
  • Claire Lynch - Silver and Gold
  • Kate MacKenzie - Age of Innocence
  • Ralph Stanley - Short Life of Trouble
  • Richard Greene and The Grass Is Greener - Sales Tax Toddle

Chamber Music Performance

  • Emerson String Quartet - Beethoven: The String Quartets
  • Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis - The Berlin Recital
  • Beaux Arts Trio - Beaux Arts Tiro Plays Turnia, Granados
  • Jaime Laredo, Cho-Liang Lin, Yo-Yo Ma, Sharon Robinson, Isaac Stern - Schubert/Boccherini: Quintets
  • Kronos Quartet - Early Music: Lachryma Antiqua

Choir or Chorus Gospel Album

  • God's Property - God's Property from Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation
  • Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir - Favorite Song of All
  • Love Fellowship Crusade Choir - Live in London at Wembley
  • Rev. Milton Brunson's Thompson Community Singers - He's Still Good!
  • Sounds of Blackness - Time for Healing

Choral Performance

  • Robert Shaw - Adams: Harmonium/Rachmaninoff: The Bells
  • Fran Welster-Most - Bruckner: Messe No. 3 in F Minor; Te Deum
  • James Paul - Paray: Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc
  • John Eliot Gardiner - Haydn: The Creation
  • Richar dHickox - Dyson: the Cantebury Pilgrims; Overture: At the Tabard Inn; In Honour of the City

Classical Album

  • Philadelphia Orchestra - Premieres - Cello Concertos
  • Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg
  • Emerson String Quartet - Beethoven: The String Quartets
  • Scottis Chamber Orchestra - Brahms: The Four Symphonies: Academic Festival Overture, Etc
  • The Cleveland Orchestra - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

Classical Contemporary Composition

  • John Adams - Adams: El Dorado
  • Aaron Jay Kernis - Kernis: Second Symphony
  • Lowell Liebermann - Liebermann: Con. No. 2 for Piano and Orch, Op. 36
  • Per Norgard - Norgard: Symp. No. 5
  • Richard Danielpour - Danielpour: Concerto for Orch:

Classical Orchestral Performance

  • Pierre Boulez conducting The Cleveland Orchstra - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
  • Charles Mackerras conducting the Scottish Chamber Orchestra - Brahms: The Four Symhonies: Academic Festival Overture
  • Christopher Lyndon-Gee conducting the Arnhem Phil. Orchestra - Markevitch: Complete Orchestral Musica, Vol. 1
  • Franz Welser-Most conduting the Philadelphia Orchestra - Korngold: Sym. in F Sharp, Op. 40
  • Riccardo Chailly conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra - Shostakovich: The Dance Album

Classical Producer of the Year

  • Steven Epstein
  • J. Tamblyn Henderson Jr.
  • Judith Sherman
  • Wolf Erichson
  • Andrew Keener

Classical Vocal Performance

  • Cecilia Bartoli - An Italian Songbook
  • Anne Sofie von Otter - La Bonne Chanson - Faure Chamber Songs
  • Renee Fleming - Signatures - Great Opera Scenes
  • Omar Ebrahim, Rosemary Hardy, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Rose Taylor - Ligeti: Vocal Works
  • Vesselina Kasarova - Mozart: Arias

Contemporary Blues Album

  • Taj Mahal - Senor Blues
  • Boz Scaggs - Come on Home
  • Dr. John - Trippin' Live
  • Luther Allison - Reckless
  • Robert Cray Band - Sweeet Potato Pie

Contemporary Folk Album

Contemporary Jazz Performance

  • Randy Brecker - Into the Sun
  • Grover Washington Jr. - Breath of Heaven
  • Joe Sample - Sample This
  • Lee Ritenour - Alive in L.A.
  • Patrice Rushen - Signature

Contemporary Soul Gospel Album

  • Take 6 - Brothers
  • Andrae Crouch - Pary
  • Donnie McClurkin - Donnie McClurkin
  • Marvin Sapp - Grace and Mercy
  • Oleta Adams - Come Walk with Me

Country Album

Country Collaboration

  • Trisha Yearwood, Garth Brooks - In Another's Eyes
  • Toby Keith, Sting - I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying
  • Tim McGraw, Faith Hill - It's Your Love
  • Clint Black, Martina McBride - Still Holding On
  • Patty Loveless, George Jones - You Don't Seem to Miss Me

Country Female Vocalist

Country Instrumental Performance

  • Alison Krauss, Union Station - Little Liza Jane
  • Asleep at the Wheel - Fat Boy Rag
  • Chet Atkins, Tommy Emmanuel - Smokey Mountain Lullaby
  • Lee Roy Parnell - Mama, Screw Your Wig on Tight
  • Scotty Moore, D.J. Fontana, Bill Black Combo - Goin' Back to Memphis

Country Male Vocalist

  • Pretty Little Adriana - Vince Gill
  • Carrying Your Love with Me - George Strait
  • Peach Pickin' Time Down in Georgia - Willie Nelson
  • Rusty Cage - Johnny Cash
  • Something That We Do - Clint Black

Country Song

  • Bob Carlisle, Jeff Carson, Raybon Brothers - Butterfly Kisses
  • Deana Carter, Rhonda Hart - Did I Shave My Legs For This?
  • Pam Tillis - All The Good Ones Are Gone Lyrics
  • Tim McGraw, Faith Hill - It's Your Love
  • Trisha Yearwood, Garth Brooks - In Another's Eyes

Country Vocal Group

Dance Recording

Hall of Fame

Hard Rock Performance

Historical Album

  • Anthology of American Folk Music
  • Cuba: I Am Time
  • Centenary Edition: 100 Years of Great Music
  • Bill Evans - The Complete Bill Evans on Verve
  • Gene Autry - Sing, Cowboy, Sing! The Gene Autry Collection
  • Ray Charles - Ray Charles Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection

Instrumental Arrangement

  • Bill Holman - Straight, No Chaser
  • Dave Grusin - Peter Gunn
  • Michael Abene, Dave Grusin - America
  • Robert Farnon - Wild Is the Wind
  • Vince Mendoza - Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)

Instrumental Arrangement with Accompanying Vocal(s)

  • Slide Hampton - Cotton Tail
  • Arif Mardin - Laura
  • Don Sebesky - Our Love is Here to Stay
  • John Clayton - My Heart Belongs to Daddy
  • Mike Renzi - The Summer Knows

Instrumental Composition

  • Wayne Shorter - Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Alan Broadbent - Everytime I Think of You
  • Bob Florence - Earth
  • Bob Mintzer - New Rochelle
  • J.J. Johnson - Canon for Bela

Instrumental Soloist(s) with Orchestra

  • Yo-Yo Ma, David Ziman - Premieres - Cello Concerto (Works of Danielpour, Krchnner, Rouse)
  • Evelyn Glennie, Leonard Slatkin - Schwanter: Con. for Percussion and Orch.
  • Joshua Bell, David Zinman - Barber/Walton: Violin Concertos/Block: Baal Shem
  • Martha Argerich, Claudio Abbado - Tchaikovsky: Piano Con. No. 1
  • Richard Goode - Mozart: Piano Cons. Nos. 18 & 20

Instrumental Soloist(s) without Orchestra

  • Janos Starker - Bach: Suites for Solo Cello Nos. 1 to 6
  • Arcadi Volodos - Volodos, Piano Transcriptions
  • Leif Ove Andsnes - Schumann: Piano Son. No. 1; Fantasy in C
  • Murray Perahia - Murray Perahia Plays Handel and Scarlatti
  • Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Liegeti: Works for Piano

Jazz Instrumental Performance

  • Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - Beyond the Missouri Sky
  • Chick Corea & Friends - Remembering Bud Powell
  • Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton - Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton
  • Joe Lovano - Celebrating Sinatra
  • Kenny Garrett - Songbook

Jazz Instrumental Solo

  • Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton - Stardust
  • Antonio Hart - The Community
  • Brad Mehldau - Blame It on My Youth
  • Buddy DeFranco - You Must Believe in Swing
  • Tommy Flanagan - Dear Old Stockholm

Jazz Vocal Performance

  • Dee Dee Bridgewater - Dear Ella
  • Diana Krall - Love Scenes
  • Kurt Elling - The Messenger
  • Mark Murphy - Ssong for the Geese
  • Shirley Horn - Loving You'

Large Jazz Ensemble Performance

  • Joe Henderson Big Band - Joe Henderson Big Band
  • Anthony Wilson - Anthony Wilson
  • Bill Holman Band - Brilliant Colors
  • J.J. Johnson - The Brass Orchestra
  • Phil Woods & the Festival Orchestra - Celebration!

Latin Jazz Performance

  • Roy Hargrove's Crisol - Habana
  • Banda Mantiqueira - Aldeia
  • Carlos Patato Valdes - Ritmo y Candela II: African Crossroads
  • Conrad Herwig - The Latin Side of John Coltrane
  • Giovanni Hidalgo - Hands of Rhythm

Latin Pop Performance

Latin Rock/Alternative Performance

  • Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - Fabulosos Calavera
  • Aterciopelados - La Pipa de la Paz
  • Cafe Tacuba - Avalancha de Exitos
  • El Tri - Cuando Tu No Estas
  • Molotov - Donde Jugaran las Ninas?

Life Achievement Awards

Long Form Music Video

  • Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
  • various artists - Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
  • Blind Melon - Letters From A Porcupine Lyrics
  • Orquestra Was - Forever's a Long, Long Time
  • Tina Turner - Live in Amsterdam - Wildest Dreams Tour

Metal Performance

  • Aenema - Tool
  • Cemetery Gates - Pantera
  • Drowning in a Daydream - Corrosion of Conformity
  • No Place to Hide - KoRn
  • Trust - Megadeth

Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance

  • La Mafia - En Tus Manos Lyrics
  • Alejandro Fernandez - Muy Dentro de Mi Corazon
  • Lizza Lamb - Destino
  • Los Tigres del Norte - Jefe de Jefes
  • Ramon Ayala y sus Bravos del Norte - En las Alas de un Angel/Despedimos a Cornelio Reyna

Musical Album for Children

  • John Denver - All Aboard!
  • Arlo Guthrie - This Land is Your Land
  • Art Garfunkel - Songs from a Parent to a Child
  • John McCutcheon - Bigger Than Yourself
  • Taj Mahal, Eric Bibb & Linda Tillery - Shakin' a Tailfeather

New Age Album

  • Michael Hedges - Oracle
  • Enigma - Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!
  • Mike Oldfield - Voyager
  • Paul Winter - Canyon Lullaby
  • Vangelis - Oceanic

New Artist

Opera Recording

  • Georg Solti - Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg
  • Georg Solti - Mozart Don Giovanni
  • Lothar Zagrosek - Braunfels: Die Vogel
  • Valery Gergiev - Glinka: Russlan and Lydumila
  • William Christie - Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie

Original Soundtrack

  • Gabriel Yared - The English Patient
  • Dave Grusin - Selena
  • John Williams - Seven Years in Tibet
  • John Williams - The Lost World: Jurassic Park
  • Danny Elfman - Men in Black - Main Theme

Polka Album

  • Jimmy Sturr - Living on Polka Time
  • Frank Yankovic & Friends - Sonngs of the Polka King
  • John Gora & Gorale - Duty Free Polkas
  • Lenny Gomulka & the Chicago Push - Home Is Where the Heart Is
  • Walter Ostanek - Moments to Remember

Pop Album