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This is truly the grand-daddy of all awards shows. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences recognizes outstanding musical achievements. The Grammys always prove to be a night of spectacle and performance that truly can't be missed.

Host: Rosie O'Donnell
Date: February 24, 1999
City: Los Angeles

This Year's Performers

The Nominees

Album Notes

Album Of The Year

Alternative Music Performance

Bluegrass Album

Chamber Music Performance

  • Winner:
    Andre Previn, piano     American Scenes (Works of Copland, Previn, Barber, Gershwin)
  • Takacs Quartet Bartok: The 6 String Quartets
  • Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano Ligeti: Chamber Music
  • Kronos Quartet Schnittke: The Complete String Quartets
  • Kim Kashkashian, viola Brahms: Sons. for Viola and Piano Nos. 1 & 2

Choral Performance

Classical Album

Classical Contemporary Composition

  • Winner:
    Krzysztof Penderecki     Penderecki: Violin Con. No. 2 'Metamorphosen'
  • John Adams Adams: Gnarly Buttons
  • George Tsontakis Tsontakis: Ghost Variations
  • Elliott Carter Carter: 90+
  • Arvo Part Part: Kanon Pokajanen

Classical Crossover Album

Classical Producer Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Steven Epstein
  • James Mallinson
  • Manfred Eicher
  • Robina G. Young
  • Andreas Neubronner

Classical Vocal Performance

Contemporary Blues Album

Contemporary Folk Album

Contemporary Jazz Performance

Contemporary Soul Gospel Album

Country Album

Country Collaboration

  • Winner:
    Clint Black, Joe Diffie, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Patty Loveless, Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, Pam Tillis, Randy Travis, Travis Tritt, Dwight Yoakam     Same Old Train
  • Trisha Yearwood, Garth Brooks Where Your Road Leads
  • Vince Gill, Patty Loveless My Kind of Woman/My Kind of Man
  • Faith Hill, Tim McGraw Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me
  • Reba McEntire, Brooks & Dunn If You See Him/If You See Her

Country Female Vocalist

Country Instrumental Performance

  • Winner:
    Randy Scruggs, Vince Gill     A Soldier's Joy
  • Jerry Douglas with Bela Fleck The Ride
  • Doc and Merle Watson Reuben's Train
  • Randy Scuggs, Earl Scruggs, Jerry Douglas Lonesome Ruben
  • Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder Get Up John

Country Male Vocalist

Country Song

  • Winner:
    Robert John Mutt Lange, Shania Twain     You're Still the One
  • Vince Gill, Troy Seals If You Ever Have Forever in Mind
  • Bob Dylan To Make You Feel My Love
  • Billy Kirsch, Steve Wariner Holes in the Floor of Heaven
  • Beth Nielsen Chapman, Robin Lerner, Annie Roboff This Kiss

Country Vocal Group

Dance Recording

Gospel Choir Or Chorus Album

  • Winner:
    The Associates     Reflections
  • New Life Community Choir Strength
  • LFT Church Choir Pastor Hezekiah Walker Presents the LFT Church Choir Love at Love Fellowship Tabernacle
  • Bobby Jones and New Life with the Nashville Super Choir Just Churchin'
  • The Love Center Choir Love Alive V - 25th Anniversary Reunion

Hall Of Fame

Hard Rock Performance

Historical Album

  • Winner:
    The Complete Hank Williams
  • Have a Nice Decade: The '70s Pop Culture Box
  • The Jazz Singers: A Smithsonian Collection of Jazz Vocals from 1919 to 1994
  • New York Philharmonic: The Historic Broadcasts 1923 to 1987
  • The Pet Sounds Sessions

Instrumental Arrangement

  • Winner:
    Don Sebesky     Waltz for Debby
  • Rob McConnell What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
  • Patrick Williams In the Still of the Night
  • Michel Legrand Where or When
  • Bill Holman Moon of Manakoorah

Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)

Instrumental Composition

  • Winner:
    Bela Fleck, Future Man, Victor Lemonte Wooten     Almost 12
  • Wynton Marsalis The Midnight Blues
  • Jorge Calandrelli, Astor Piazolla Tango Remembrances
  • Gerald Wilson Romance
  • Bob Mintzer Ellis Island

Instrumental Soloist Without Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Murray Perahia, piano     Bach: English Suites Nos. 1, 3, & 6
  • Stephen Hough, piano New York Variations
  • Paul Galbraith, guitar Bach: The Complete Sons. and Partitas for Violin, Nos. 1, 2 & 3
  • David Starobin, guitar New Dance--18 Dances for Guitar
  • Leif Ove Andsnes, piano The Long, Long Winter Night

Instrumental Soloist(s) With Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin     Penderecki: Violin Con. No. 2 'Metamorphosen'
  • Murray Perahia, piano Schumann: Piano Con. in A-Minor, Op. 54: Introduction and Allegro Annassinnato, Op. 92
  • Maxim Vengerov, violin Prokofiev/Shostakovich: Violin Cons. No. 2
  • Kennedy, violin Elgar: Violin Con.
  • Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin Brahms: Violin Con./Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 131

Jazz Instrumental Performance

  • Winner: Herbie Hancock Gershwin's World
  • Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette Tokyo '96
  • Dave Holland Quintet Points of View
  • Chick Corea and Gary Burton Native Sense--The New Duets
  • Charlie Haden and Kenny Barron Night and the City

Jazz Instrumental Solo

  • Winner:
    Chick Corea and Gary Burton     Rhumbata
  • Randy Brecker My Funny Valentine
  • Kenny Barron For Heaven's Sake
  • David Liebman My Favorite Things
  • Benny Golson Body & Soul

Jazz Vocal Performance

Large Jazz Ensemble Performance

  • Winner:
    Count Basie Orchestra     Count Plays Duke
  • Jon Faddis Remembrances
  • Jim McNeely and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Lickety Split--Music of Jim McNeely
  • Gerald Wilson Orchestra Theme for Monterey
  • Bill Holman and the Netherlands Metropole Orchestra Further Adventures

Latin Jazz Performance

Latin Pop Performance

Latin Rock/alternative Performance

Legend Award

Life Achievement Awards

Long Form Music Video

Metal Performance

Mexican-american Music Performance

Musical Album For Children

  • Winner:
    The Sesame Street Muppets with various artists     Elmopalooza!
  • Tony Bennett The Playground
  • Tom Chapin In My Hometown
  • Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer Changing Channels
  • John McCutcheon John McCutcheon's Four Seasons: Autumnsongs

Musical Show Album

  • Winner:
    Mark Mancina     The Lion King
  • Thomas Z. Shepard Chicago, the Musical
  • Robert Sher The Wizard of Oz
  • Jay David Saks Cabaret
  • Jay David Saks Ragtime, the Musical

New Age Album

New Artist

Non-classical Engineered Album

  • Winner:
    The Globe Sessions
  • The Nu Nation Project
  • Firecracker
  • Contact from the Underworld of Redboy
  • Breath of Heaven

Non-classical Producer Of The Year

Non-classical Remixer Of The Year

  • Winner:
    David Morales
  • Masters at Work
  • Steve Silk Hurley
  • Roger Sanchez
  • Frankie Knuckles

Opera Recording

  • Winner:
    Pierre Boulez     Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle
  • William Christie Rameau: Les Fetes d'Hebe
  • Valery Gergiev Tchaikovsky: Mazeppa
  • Valery Gergiev Prokofiev: Betrothal in a Monastery
  • Gidon Kremer Piazzolla: Maria de Buenos Aires

Orchestral Performance

  • Winner:
    Pierre Boulez     Mahler: Symphony No. 9
  • Riccardo Chailly Varese: The Complete Works
  • Yoel Levi Holst: The Planets
  • Oliver Knussen Henze: Undine
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt Brahms: The Symphonies (Nos. 1-4; Haydn Variations; Tragic Overture etc)
  • Christoph von Dohnanyi Ives: Three Places in New England; Orchestral Set No. 2/Ruggles: Sun-Treader Men and Mountains

Original Soundtrack

Polka Album

Pop Album

Pop Collaboration

  • Winner:
    Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach     I Still Have That Other Girl
  • Van Morrison, The Chieftains Shenandoah
  • Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
  • R. Kelly, Celine Dion I'm Your Angel
  • Babyface, Stevie Wonder How Come, How Long

Pop Female Vocalist

Pop Instrumental Performance

Pop Male Vocalist

Pop Vocal Group

Pop/contemporary Gospel Album

R&b Album

R&b Female Vocalist

R&b Male Vocalist

R&b Song

R&b Vocal Group

  • Winner:
    Brandy & Monica     The Boy Is Mine
  • Temptations Stay
  • Lauryn Hill and D'Angelo Nothing Even Matters
  • Kirk Franklin with Mary J. Blige, R. Kelly, Bono, Crystal Lewis and the Family Lean on Me
  • K-Ci & JoJo All My Life

Rap Album

Rap Solo Performance

Rap Vocal Group

Record Of The Year

Recording Package

  • Chika Azuma Readings by Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation
  • Ames Brothers and Pearl Jam Yield

Reggae Album

Rock Album

Rock Female Vocalist

Rock Gospel Album

Rock Instrumental Performance

Rock Male Vocalist

Rock Song

Rock Vocal Group

Short Form Music Video

Small Ensemble Performance

  • Winner:
    Steve Reich and Musicians     Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
  • Michael Riesman Glass: Kundun - Music from the Original Soundtrack
  • James Rives-Jones Voces Americanas
  • Andrew Manze Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 (Nos. 1-12) The Academy of Ancient Music
  • Alexander Blachly Creator of the Stars--Christmas Music for Earlier Times

Song Of The Year

Song Written For A Motion Picture Or Television

Southern Gospel, Country Gospel Or Bluegrass Gospel Album

Spoken Comedy Album

Spoken Word Album

  • Winner:
    Christopher Reeve     Still Me
  • Toni Morrison Beloved
  • Jimmy Carter The Virtues of Aging
  • Garrison Keillor Wobegon Boy
  • David Holt, Bill Mooney Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends

Spoken Word Album For Children

Tejano Music Performance

  • Winner:
    Flaco Jimenez     Said and Done
  • Little Joe And La Familia 2000
  • Leyendas y Raices Leyendas y Raices
  • Jaime y los Chamacos Fanaticos
  • Fiebre Live...en Concierto!

Traditional Blues Album

  • Winner:
    Otis Rush     Any Place I'm Going
  • Robert Lockwood Jr. I Got to Find Me a Woman
  • Luther Guitar Junior Johnson and the Magic Rockers Got to Find a Way
  • John Hammond Long As I Have You
  • Henry Gray, Calvin Jones, Sam Lay, Colin Linden, Hubert Sumlin A Tribute to Howlin' Wolf

Traditional Folk Album

  • Winner:
    The Chieftains with various artists     Long Journey Home
  • Ramblin' Jack Elliott Friends of Mine
  • Norman Blake Chattanooga Sugar Babe
  • Mike Seeger Southern Banjo Sounds
  • Greg Brown Slant 6 Mind

Traditional Pop Performance

Traditional R&b Vocal Performance

Traditional Soul Gospel Album

  • Winner: Cissy Houston He Leadeth Me
  • Rev. Timothy Wright and the B/J Mass Choir Been There Done That
  • Rance Allen and the Soul Winners' Conference Choir Just Right for a Miracle
  • Della Reese Live! My Soul Feels Better Right Now
  • Beverly Crawford Now That I'm Here

Tropical Latin Performance

Trustees Award

  • Winner:
    Jerry Lieber, Mike Stoller
  • Winner:
    Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff
  • Winner:
    Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe

World Music Album

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