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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.

Date: February 10, 2007
City: Los Angeles

This Year's Performers

The Nominees

Album Notes

  • Winner:
    Dan Morgenstern     If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It!
  • Daivd Fricke There is A Season
  • Ben Edmonds Pirate Radio
  • Tim Brooks Lost Sounds: Blacks And The Birth Of The Recording Industry 1891-1922
  • Marshall Wyatt Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows, 1926-1937

Album Of The Year

Best Alternative Music Album

Best Banda Album

Best Bluegrass Album

Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package

  • Winner:
    Flea, John Frusciante, Anthony Kiedis, Chad Smith & Matt Taylor     Stadium Arcadium
  • Susan Archie & Henry Owings Fonotone Records
  • Hugh Brown, Sheryl Farber & Maria Villar One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found
  • Hugh Brown & Jean Krikorian A Life Less Lived - The Gothic Box
  • Howard Fritzson, Dan Ichimoto & Seth Rothstein The Cellar Door Sessions 1970

Best Chamber Music Performance

  • Winner:
    Emerson String Quartet     Intimate Voices
  • Beaux Arts Trio Shostakovich: Piano Trios 1 & 2, Seven Romances on Verse By Alexander Blok
  • Martha Argerich and Friends Martha Argerich and Friends: Live From the Lugano Festival 2005
  • The Chicago Chamber Musicians Chamber Works for Winds and Strings by Mozart
  • Andrew Russo Corigliano: Violin Sonata, Etude Fantasy

Best Choral Performance

  • Winner:
    Paul Hillier, conductor     Part: Da Pacem
  • Stephen Layton, conductor Whitacre: Cloudburst And Other Choral Works
  • Craig Hella Johnson, conductor Requiem
  • Oystein Fevang, conductor Immortal Nystedt
  • Paul McCreesh, conductor Mozart: Great Mass in C Min.

Best Classical Album

  • Winner:
    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Andreas Neubronner, producer (San Francisco Symphony)     Mahler: Symphony No. 7
  • Ren Jacobs, conductor; Marie-Claude Chappuis, Bernarda Fink, Sergio Foresti, Sunhae Im, Mark Padmore & Alexandrina Pendatchanska; Martin Sauer, producer (Freiburger Barockorchester) Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito
  • Bernard Haitink, conductor; James Mallinson, producer Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9

Best Classical Contemporary Composition

  • Winner:
    Osvaldo Golijov     Golijov: Ainadamar: Fountain of Tears
  • James MacMillan A Scotch Bestiary
  • David Del Tredici Paul Revere's Ride
  • Christopher Theofanidis The Here and Now
  • Elliott Carter Boston Concerto

Best Classical Crossover Album

Best Classical Vocal Performance

  • Winner:
    Lorraine Hunt Lieberson     Rilke Songs
  • Patrick Mason Songs of Amy Beach
  • Thomas Quasthoff Consider, My Soul
  • Bernarda Fink & Marcos Fink Canciones Argentinas
  • Ian Bostridge Britten: Song Cycles

Best Comedy Album

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Best Contemporary Folk/americana Album

Best Contemporary Jazz Album

Best Contemporary R&b Album

Best Contemporary R&b Gospel Album

Best Contemporary World Music Album

Best Country Album

Best Country Collaboration With Vocals

  • Winner:
    Bon Jovi & Jennifer Nettles     Who Says You Can't Go Home
  • Trisha Yearwood & Garth Brooks Love Will Always Win
  • Rhonda Vincent & Bobby Osborne Midnight Angel
  • Kenny Rogers & Don Henley Calling Me
  • Solomon Burke & Dolly Parton Tomorrow if Forever

Best Country Instrumental Performance

Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal

Best Country Song

Best Dance Recording

Best Electronic/dance Album

Best Engineered Album - Classical

  • Winner:
    Michael Bishop     Elgar: Enigma Variations; Britten: The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra, Four Sea Interludes
  • Jack Renner Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Min., And Other A Cappella Works
  • John Newton Requiem
  • Wolf-Dieter Karwatky & Rainer Maillard, engineers Mahler: Symphony No. 2
  • Leslie Ann Jones Latigo

Best Female Country Vocal Performance

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

Best Female R&b Vocal Performance

Best Gospel Performance

Best Gospel Song

Best Hard Rock Performance

Best Hawaiian Music Album

Best Historical Album

  • Winner:
    Megan Hennessey & Richard Martin     Lost Sounds: Blacks And The Birth Of The Recording Industry 1891-1922
  • Rebekah Presson Mosby Rockin' Bones: 1950's Punk & Rockailly
  • Sheryl Farker & Garry Stewart One Kiss Can Lead To Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found"

Best Instrumental Arrangement

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

  • Winner:
    Tony Bennett & Stevie Wonder     For Once in my Life
  • Gil Goldstein Suninga
  • Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band Stardust
  • Elvis Costello With The Metropole Orkest My Flame Burns Blue (Blood Count) - track from "My Flame Burns Blue"
  • Chris Botti & Jill Scott Good Morning Heartache

Best Instrumental Soloist Performance - Without Orchestra

Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance - With Orchestra

  • Winner:
    John McLaughlin Williams, conductor     Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques (Exotic Birds)
  • Ole Schmidt, conductor Schmidt: Concertos
  • Antonio Pappano, conductor Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1 & 2
  • Riccardo Chailly, conductor Brahms: The Piano Concertos
  • Christopher Lyndon-Gee, conductor Henze: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 3

Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual Or Group

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo

Best Jazz Vocal Album

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

  • Winner:
    Randy Brecker With Michael Brecker, Jim Beard, Will Lee, Peter Erskine, Marcio Doctor & Vince Mendoza conducting The WDR Big Band Kln     Some Skunk Funk
  • The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Up From the Skies - Music of Jim McNeely
  • Mingus Big Band Live In Tokyo At the Blue Note
  • Joe Lovano Ensemble Streams of Expression
  • Bob Brookmeyer - New Art Orchestra Spirit Music

Best Latin Jazz Album

  • Winner:
    The Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Project     Simpatico
  • Ignacio Berroa Codes
  • Diego Urcola, Edward Simon, Avishai Cohen, Antonio Sanchez & Pernell Saturnino Viva
  • Dafnis Prieto Absolute Quintet
  • Edsel Gomez Cubist Music

Best Latin Pop Album

Best Latin Rock, Alternative, Or Urban Album

Best Long Form Music Video

Best Male Country Vocal Performance

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

Best Male R&b Vocal Performance

Best Metal Performance

Best Mexican/mexican-american Album

Best Musical Album For Children

Best Musical Show Album

  • Winner:
    Original Broadway Cast With Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer, John Lloyd Young & Others     Jersey Boys
  • Broadway Cast With Patti LuPone, Michael Cerveris & Others Sweeney Todd
  • New Broadway Cast With Harry Connick, Jr., Kelli O'Hara & Others The Pajama Game
  • Original Broadway Cast With LaChanze, Elisabeth Withers-Mendes & Others The Color Purple
  • Original Broadway Cast With Bob Martin, Sutton Foster, Beth Leavel & Others The Drowsy Chaperone

Best Native American Music Album

  • Winner:
    Mary Youngblood     Dance With the Wind
  • Black Eagle Voice of the Drum
  • Northern Cree & Friends Long Winter Nights
  • Jana American Indian Story
  • Robert Tree Cody & Will Clipman Heart of the Wind

Best New Age Album

Best New Artist

Best Norteno Album

Best Opera Recording

  • Winner:
    Robert Spano, conductor     Golijov: Ainadamar: Fountain of Tears
  • Carlo Rizzi, conductor Verdi: La Traviata
  • Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor Smetana: The Bartered Bride
  • Rene Jacobs, conductor Mozart: La Clemenza Di Tito
  • Stewart Robertson, conductor Bennett: The Mines of Sulphur

Best Orchestral Performance

  • Winner:
    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor     Mahler: Symphony No. 7
  • Valery Gergieve, conductor Prokofiev: The Complete Symphonies
  • Ivan Fischer, conductor Mahler: Symphony No. 6 In A Min.
  • Jose Serebrier, conductor Glazunov: Symphonies 4 & 7
  • Vernon Handley, conductor Bax: Tone Poems

Best Polka Album

  • Winner:
    Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra     Polka in Paradise
  • Walter Ostanek & Fred Ziwich Good Friends Good Music
  • LynnMarie & The Boxhounds Party Dress
  • Lenny Gomulka & Chicago Push As Sweet As Candy
  • Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones Batteries Not Included

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals

  • Winner:
    Tony Bennett & Stevie Wonder     For Once in my Life
  • Shakira & Wyclef Jean Hips Don't Lie
  • Nelly Furtado & Timbaland Promiscuous
  • Sheryl Crow & Sting Always On Your Side
  • Mary J. Blige & U2 One

Best Pop Instrumental Album

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal

Best Pop Vocal Album

Best Pop/contemporary Gospel Album

Best Producer Of The Year, Classical

  • Winner:
    Elaine Martone
  • Sid McLauchlan
  • James Mallinson
  • Stephen Johns
  • Manfred Eicher

Best Producer Of The Year, Non-classical

  • Winner:
    The Flaming Lips & Dave Fridmnann     At War With the Mystics
  • Brandon Bell, Terry Christin & Gray Paczosa Like Red On A Rose
  • Gary Paczosa Adieu False Heart

Best R&b Album

Best R&b Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal

  • Winner:
    John Legend, Joss Stone with Van Hunt     Family Affair
  • Prince & Tamar Beautiful, Loved and Blessed
  • Chaka Khan, Gerald Levert, Yolanda Adams & Carl Thomas Everyday (Family Reunion)
  • Jamie Foxx Love Changes
  • George Benson & Al Jarreau Breezin'

Best R&b Song

Best Rap / Sung Collaboration

Best Rap Album

Best Rap Performance - Solo

Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group

Best Rap Solo Performance

Best Rap Song

Best Recording Package

Best Reggae Album

Best Remixed Recording - Non-classical

  • Winner:
    Jacques Lu Cont     Talk
  • Moto Blanco Be Without You
  • E-Smoove World Hold On
  • Buick Project Damage Thorn
  • Russell Small & James Wiltshire Deja Vu

Best Rock Album

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

Best Rock Or Rap Gospel Album

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal

Best Rock Song

Best Short Form Music Video

Best Small Ensemble Performance

  • Winner:
    Peter Rutenberg, conductor     Padilla: Sun of Justice
  • Yuri Bashmet Shostakovich/Sviridov/Vainberg: Chamber Symphonies
  • Jordi Savall, conductor Miguel De Cervantes - Don Quijote De La Mancha - Romances Y Musicas
  • Harry Christophers, conductor Ikon
  • 12 Cellists of Berliner Philharmoniker Angel Dances

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance

Best Song Written For A Motion Picture, Televison Or Other Visual Media

Best Southern, Country Or Bluegrass Gospel Album

Best Spoken Word Album

  • Winner:
    Jimmy Carter     Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
  • Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together
  • Al Franken The Truth (With Jokes)
  • Bob Newhart I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!
  • Bill Maher New Rules - Polite Musings From a Timid Observer

Best Spoken Word Album For Children

Best Tejano Album

  • Winner:
    Chente Barrera     Sigue El Taconazo
  • Rebecca Valadez Rebecca Valadez
  • Jay Perez All of Me
  • Bob Gallarza Live In Session
  • Jimmy Edward It's...All Right

Best Traditional Blues Album

  • Winner:
    Ike Turner     Risin' With the Blues
  • Duke Robillard Guitar Groove-A-Rama
  • James Hunter People Gonna Talk
  • Dion Bronx in Blue
  • Tab Benoit with Louisiana's Leroux Brother to the Blues

Best Traditional Folk Album

Best Traditional Gospel Album

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Best Traditional R&b Vocal Performance

Best Traditional World Music Album

  • Winner: Soweto Gospel Choir Blessed
  • Aashish Khan & Zakir Hussain Golden Strings of the Sarode
  • Andrea Hoag, Loretta Kelley & Charlie Pilzer Hambo in the Snow
  • Hossein Alizadeh & Djivan Gasparyan Endless Vision
  • The Academy of Maqam Music of Central Asia Vol. 2: Invisible Face of the Beloved: Classical Music of the Tajiks and Uzbeks

Best Tropical Latin Album

Best Urban/alternative Performance

Record Of The Year

Song Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison & Dan Wilson, songwriters     Not Ready to Make Nice
  • James Blunt, Amanda Ghost & Sacha Skarbek, songwriters You're Beautiful
  • John Beck, Steve Chrisanthou & Corinne Bailey Rae, songwriters Put Your Records On
  • Johnta Austin, Mary J. Blige, Bryan-Michael Cox & Jason Perry, songwriters Be Without You
  • Brett James, Hillary Lindsey & Gordie Sampson, songwriters Jesus, Take the Wheel
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