1999 Grammy Awards

Awards
- 1999 Music Awards
-- Grammy Awards

--- 1999 Grammy Awards

Details & Performances

  • Host: Rosie O'Donnell
  • Venue: Shrine Auditorium
  • City: Los Angeles
  • Date: February 25, 1999

Awards

Album Notes

  • Charles Mingus - Passions of a Man--The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961

Album of the Year

Alternative Music Performance

Bluegrass Album

  • Ricky Skaggs, Kentucky Thunder - Bluegrass Rules!
  • Doc & Merle Watson - Home Sweet Home
  • Jim and Jessie - Songs from the Homeplace
  • Nashville Bluegrass Band - American Beauty
  • Ralph Stanley and Friends - Clinch Mountain Country

Chamber Music Performance

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

Choral Performance

  • Robert Shaw - Barber: Prayers of Kierkegaard/Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem/Bartok: Cantata Profana
  • Georg Solti - Sir Georg Solti--The Last Recording
  • Konrad Junghanel - Schutz: Psalmen Davids
  • Martin Pearlman - Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610
  • Paul Salamunovich - Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna

Classical Album

  • Robert Shaw - Barber: Prayers of Kierkegaard/Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem/Bartok: Cantata Profana
  • Kronos Quartet - Schnittke: The Complete String Quartets
  • Pierre Boulez - Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle
  • Renee Fleming - The Beautiful Voice
  • Georg Solti - Sir Georg Solti - The Last Recording

Classical Contemporary Composition

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

Classical Crossover Album

  • Yo-Yo Ma - Soul of the Tango--The Music of Astor Piazzolla
  • Evelyn Glennie - Reflected in Brass--Evelyn Glennie Meets the Black Dyke Band
  • Joshua Bell - Gershwin Fantasy
  • Keith Lockhart - The Celtic Album
  • Sharon Isbin - Journey to the Amazon

Classical Producer of the Year

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

Classical Vocal Performance

  • Renee Fleming - The Beautiful Voice
  • Bryn Terfel - Handel Arias
  • Hakan Hagegard - Hagegard Sings Brahms, Sibelius, Stenhammar
  • Jennifer Larmore - Amore Per Rossini
  • Matthais Goerne - Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48; Liederkreis, Op. 24

Contemporary Blues Album

  • Keb' Mo' - Slow Down
  • B.B. King - Dueces Wild
  • Buddy Guy - Heavy Love Lyrics
  • Etta James - Life, Love & the Blues
  • Marcia Ball, Irma Thomas, Tracy Nelson - Sing It!

Contemporary Folk Album

  • Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
  • Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
  • Emmylou Harris - Spyboy
  • Lyle Lovett - Step Inside This House
  • Steve Earle - El Corazon

Contemporary Jazz Performance

  • Pat Metheny Group - Imaginary Day
  • George Duke - After Hours
  • Joe Zawinul and the Zawinul Syndicate - World Tour
  • Marcus Miller - Love & More
  • Yellowjackets - Club Nocturne

Contemporary Soul Gospel Album

Country Album

Country Collaboration

  • 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
  • Reba McEntire, Brooks & Dunn - If You See Him/If You See Her
  • Faith Hill, Tim McGraw - Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me
  • Vince Gill, Patty Loveless - My Kind of Woman/My Kind of Man
  • Trisha Yearwood, Garth Brooks - Where Your Road Leads

Country Female Vocalist

Country Instrumental Performance

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

Country Male Vocalist

Country Song

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

Country Vocal Group

Dance Recording

Gospel Choir or Chorus Album

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

Hall of Fame

Hard Rock Performance

Historical Album

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

Instrumental Arrangement

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

Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)

  • Herbie Hancock - St. Louis Blues
  • George Duke - The Look of Love
  • Jeremy Lubbock - I Believe/You'll Never Walk Alone
  • Patrick Williams - Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)
  • Rob Mounsey - Nessun Dorma

Instrumental Composition

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

Instrumental Soloist without Orchestra

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

Instrumental Soloist(s) with Orchestra

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

Jazz Instrumental Performance

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

Jazz Instrumental Solo

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

Jazz Vocal Performance

  • Shirley Horn - I Remember Miles
  • Dianne Reeves - That Day...
  • Etta Jones - My Buddy--Etta Jones Sings the Songs of Buddy Johnson
  • Kurt Elling - This Time It's Love
  • Nnenna Freelon - Maiden Voyage

Large Jazz Ensemble Performance

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

Latin Jazz Performance

  • Arturo Sandoval - Hot House
  • Chucho Valdes - Bele Bele en la Habana
  • Danilo Perez - Central Avenue
  • David Sanchez - Obsession
  • Paquito D'Rivera and the United Nations Orchestra - Paquito D'Rivera and the United Nations Orchestra
  • Ray Barretto and New World Spirit - Contact

Latin Pop Performance

Latin Rock/Alternative Performance

Legend Award

Life Achievement Awards

Long Form Music Video

  • Lou Reed - Rock & Roll Heart Lyrics
  • Fastball - They Wanted the Highway
  • Scott Rockenfield, Paul Speer featuring Sir Mix-A-Lot - TeleVoid
  • various artists - Robert Altman's Jazz '34: Rememb