GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees for Best Album Notes
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63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2020)
winner
Dead Man's Pop
nominees
At The Minstrel Show: Minstrel Routines From The Studio, 1894-1926
The Bakersfield Sound: Country Music Capital Of The West, 1940-1974
The Missing Link: How Gus Haenschen Got Us From Joplin To Jazz And Shaped The Music Business
Out Of A Clear Blue Sky
62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2019)
winner
Stax '68: A Memphis Story
nominees
The Gospel According To Malaco
Pedal Steal + Four Corners
Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions
61st Annual GRAMMY Awards (2018)
winner
Voices Of Mississippi: Artists And Musicians Documented By William Ferris
nominees
Alpine Dreaming: The Helvetia Records Story, 1920-1924
4 Banjo Songs, 1891-1897: Foundational Recordings Of America’s Iconic Instrument
The 1960 Time Sessions
The Product Of Our Souls: The Sound And Sway Of James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra
Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979-1981 (Deluxe Edition)
60th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2017)
winner
Live At The Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings
nominees
Edouard-Léon Scott De Martinville, Inventor Of Sound Recording: A Bicentennial Tribute
Washington Phillips And His Manzarene Dreams
Arthur Q. Smith: The Trouble With The Truth
Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition
The Complete Piano Works Of Scott Joplin
59th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2016)
winner
Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along
nominees
The Complete Monument & Columbia Albums Collection
The Knoxville Sessions, 1929-1930: Knox County Stomp
Ork Records: New York, New York
Waxing The Gospel: Mass Evangelism & The Phonograph, 1890-1900
58th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2015)
winner
Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced
nominees
Portrait Of An American Singer
Songs Of The Night: Dance Recordings, 1916-1925
Folksongs Of Another America: Field Recordings From The Upper Midwest, 1937-1946
Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
57th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2014)
winner
Offering: Live At Temple University
nominees
Happy: The 1920 Rainbo Orchestra Sides
I'm Just Like You: Sly's Stone Flower 1969-70
The Other Side Of Bakersfield: 1950s & 60s Boppers And Rockers From 'Nashville West', Vol. 1
Purple Snow: Forecasting The Minneapolis Sound
The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume One (1917-27)
56th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2013)
winner
Afro Blue Impressions (Remastered & Expanded)
nominees
Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps
360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story
Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music, 1923-1936
Call It Art 1964-1965
Electric Music For The Mind & Body
55th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2012)
winner
Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles
nominees
Banjo Diary: Lessons From Tradition
First Recordings: 50th Anniversary Edition
The Pearl Sessions
Piazzolla In Brooklyn
54th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2011)
winner
Hear Me Howling!: Blues, Ballads & Beyond As Recorded By The San Francisco Bay By Chris Strachwitz In The 1960s
nominees
The Music City Story: Street Corner Doo Wop, Raw R&B And Soulful Sounds From Berkeley, California 1950-75
The Bang Years 1966-1968
The Bristol Sessions, 1927-1928: The Big Bang Of Country Music
Syl Johnson: Complete Mythology
53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2010)
winner
Keep An Eye On The Sky
nominees
Alan Lomax In Haiti: Recordings For The Library Of Congress, 1936-1937
Side Steps
There Breathes A Hope: The Legacy Of John Work II And His Fisk Jubilee Quartet, 1909-1916
True Love Cast Out All Evil
52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2009)
winner
The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946)
nominees
Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson - Music From The Film
My Dusty Road
Origins Of The Red Hot Mama, 1910-1922
Dance-O-Mania: Harry Yerkes And The Dawn Of The Jazz Age, 1919-1923
51st Annual GRAMMY Awards (2008)
winner
Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition
nominees
Art Of Field Recording Volume I: Fifty Years Of Traditional American Music Documented By Art Rosenbaum
Debate '08: Taft And Bryan Campaign On The Edison Phonograph
Rare & Unreleased Recordings From The Golden Reign Of The Queen Of Soul
The Unsung Father Of Country Music: 1925-1934
50th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2007)
winner
John Work, III: Recording Black Culture
nominees
Classic Chu Berry Columbia And Victor Sessions
Off The Record: The Complete 1923 Jazz Band Recordings
Ricky Jay Plays Poker
Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings From The 1890s
49th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2006)
winner
If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It!
nominees
Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows, 1926-1937
Lost Sounds: Blacks And The Birth Of The Recording Industry 1891-1922
Pirate Radio
There Is A Season
48th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2005)
winner
The Complete Library Of Congress Recordings By Alan Lomax
nominees
Heaven Must Have Sent You: The Holland/Dozier/Holland Story
The Legend
Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959)
You Ain't Talkin' To Me - Charlie Poole And The Roots Of Country Music
47th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2004)
winner
The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Woody Herman And His Orchestra & Woodchoppers (1945-1947)
nominees
The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert at Philharmonic Hall
Carry It On
Let The Buyer Beware
No Thanks! The '70's Punk Rebellion
46th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2003)
winner
Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey
nominees
Four Women: The Nina Simone Philips Recordings
Peggy Lee - The Singles Collection
Sam Cooke With The Soul Stirrers - The Complete Specialty Records Recordings
Count Basie And His Orchestra - America's #1 Band! The Columbia Years
45th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2002)
winner
Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues - The Worlds Of Charley Patton
nominees
Artie Shaw: Self Portrait
The Golden Road (1965-1973)
Sinatra In Hollywood (1940-1964)
A State Of Wonder: The Complete Goldberg Variations 1955 & 1981
44th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2001)
winner
Richard Pryor...And It's Deep Too! - The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (1968-1992)
winner
Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection - 1960-2000 The Journey Of Chris Strachwitz
nominees
The Long Road To Freedom - An Anthology Of Black Music
Rhapsodies In Black: Music And Words From The Harlem Renaissance
The Stax Story
43rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2000)
winner
Miles Davis & John Coltrane - The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961
nominees
Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years Of Little Feat (Album)
The Best of Broadside 1962-1988: Anthems Of The American Underground From The Pages Of Broadside Magazine (Album)
The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions On Verve (Album)
The Remains Of Tom Lehrer (Album)
Yes I Can! The Sammy Davis Jr. Story (Album)
42nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1999)
winner
John Coltrane - The Classic Quartet: Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings
nominees
Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack For A Century (Album)
The Last Soul Company (Album)
Hank Williams - Live At The Grand Ole Opry (Album)
Ray Charles - The Complete Country And Western Recordings (1959-1986) (Album)
41st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1998)
winner
Miles Davis Quintet 1965-1968
nominees
Charles Mingus: Passions Of A Man - The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961 (Album)
From Where I Stand: The Black Experience In Country Music (Album)
New York Philharmonic: The Historic Broadcasts 1923 To 1987 (Album)
The Complete Hank Williams (Album)
40th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1997)
winner
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Anthology Of American Folk Music - 1997 Expanded Edition
nominees
Farewells And Fantasies (Album)
Ray Charles Genius And Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection (Album)
Titanic - Music As Heard On The Fateful Voyage (Album)
Anthology (Album)
39th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1996)
winner
The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings
nominees
Mean Old World - The Blues From 1940 To 1994 (Album)
The Complete Capitol Singles Collection (Album)
The Complete Recordings Vol. 5: The Final Chapter (Album)
The Mel Tormé Collection 1944 - 1985
38th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1995)
winner
The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 3: 1972-1975
nominees
Ella - The Legendary Decca Recordings (Album)
I'll Be Seeing You: A Tribute To Carmen McRae (Album)
Lets Do It: Best Of The Verve Years (Album)
25th Anniversary - Retrospective (Album)
37th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1994)
winner
Louis Armstrong - Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man 1923-1934
nominees
Beauty Is A Rare Thing - The Complete Atlantic Recordings (Album)
Otis! The Definitive (Album)
Sam Cooke's SAR Records Story 1959-1965 (Album)
The Complete Bud Powell On Verve (Album)
36th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1993)
winner
The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959
nominees
King Of The Blues (Album)
Sounds Of The South-A Musical Journey From The Georgia Sea Islands To The Mississippi Delta Recorded In The Field By Alan Lomax (Album)
The Complete Riverside Recordings (Album)
Elvis From Nashville To Memphis, The Essential 60's Masters I (Album)
35th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1992)
winner
, 
Queen Of Soul - The Atlantic Recordings
nominees
Elvis The King Of Rock 'N' Roll - The Complete 50's Masters (Album)
Roots N' Blues The Retrospective (1925-1950) (Album)
The Complete Capitol Recordings Of The Nat "King" Cole Trio (Album)
You're The Top: Cole Porter In The 1930's (Album)
34th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1991)
winner
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Star Time
nominees
The Birth Of Soul (Album)
The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare And Unreleased) (Album)
The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968 (Album)
The Original Singles Collection...Plus (Album)
33rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1990)
winner
Brownie - The Complete Emarcy Recordings Of Clifford Brown
nominees
Art Pepper: The Complete Galaxy Recordings
Bo Diddley - The Chess Box (Album)
Muddy Waters - The Chess Box (Album)
The Jack Kerouac Collection (Album)
32nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1989)
winner
Bird - The Complete Charlie Parker On Verve
nominees
American Musical Theater - Shows Songs And Stars (Album)
Jazz Piano (Album)
Now That's A Good Tune (Album)
The Complete Fantasy Recordings (Album)
31st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1988)
winner
Crossroads
nominees
Virginia Traditions: Southwest Virginia Blues (Album)
Show Boat (Album)
The Classic Hoagy Carmichael (Album)
The Complete Commodore Jazz Recordings, Vol. I
30th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1987)
winner
Thelonious Monk - The Complete Riverside Recordings
nominees
Jimmie Rodgers On Record: America's Blue Yodeler (Album)
Singers And Soloists Of The Swing Bands (Album)
The Bristol Sessions (Album)
The Complete Sun Sessions (Album)
29th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1986)
winner
The Voice - The Columbia Years 1943-1952
nominees
Virtuosi (Album)
Biograph (Album)
Elektrock The Sixties (Album)
The Mapleson Cylinders (Album)
28th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1985)
winner
Sam Cooke Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963
nominees
American Popular Song (Album)
Bleeker And Macdougal - The Folk Scene Of The 60's (Album)
Crossroads - White Blues In The 1960's (Album)
The Girl From Ipanema - The Bossa Nova Years (Album)
27th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1984)
winner
Big Band Jazz
nominees
Virginia Traditions/Virginia Work Songs (Field Recordings 1936-1980) (Album)
A Golden Celebration (Album)
Amadeus (Original Soundtrack Recording) (Album)
An Anthology Of Sacred Carols For Classical Guitar (Album)
26th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1983)
winner
The Interplay Sessions
nominees
Giants Of Jazz/Joe Sullivan (Album)
Seven Come Eleven (Album)
The Fugs Greatest Hits, Vol. I (Album)
The Okeh Sessions (Album)
25th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1982)
winner
Bunny Berigan - Giants Of Jazz
nominees
Sixty Years Of Country Music (Album)
The Greatest Country Music Recordings Of All Time (Summary And Glossary) (Album)
Young Blood (Album)
An Experiment In Modern Music: Paul Whiteman At Aeolian Hall (Album)
Duke Ellington 1941 (Album)
24th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1981)
winner
Erroll Garner - Master Of The Keyboard
nominees
Fats Waller (Giants Of Jazz) (Album)
James P. Johnson (Giants Of Jazz) (Album)
Pee Wee Russell (Giants Of Jazz) (Album)
The Mario Lanza Collection (Album)
23rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1980)
winner
Trilogy: Past, Present And Future
nominees
Lester Young (Giants Of Jazz) (Album)
Atlanta Blues: 1933 (Album)
Chicago Concert - 1956 (Album)
Elvis Aron Presley (Album)
22nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1979)
winner
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Charlie Parker - The Complete Savoy Sessions
nominees
Billie Holiday (Giants Of Jazz) (Album)
Duke Ellington (Giants Of Jazz) (Album)
Hoagy Carmichael - A Legendary Performer And Composer (Album)
The Magical Music Of Walt Disney
21st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1978)
winner
A Bing Crosby Collection, Vols. I & II
nominees
The Individualism Of Pee Wee Russell (Album)
Works Of Carpenter/Gilbert/Weiss/Powell (Album)
Beethoven: 9 Symphonies (Album)
Ellington At Carnegie Hall 1943 (Album)
Georgia Sea Island Songs
20th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1977)
winner
Bing Crosby - A Legendary Performer
nominees
Guy Lombardo: A Legendary Performer (Album)
Jefferson Airplane-Flight Log
Stormy Blues (Billy Holiday) (Album)
The Lester Young Story Vol. I (Album)
19th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1976)
winner
The Changing Face Of Harlem - The Savoy Sessions
nominees
Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos (Album)
Caruso - A Legendary Performer (Album)
The Blue Sky Boys (Bill And Earl Bolick) (Album)
The Complete Tommy Dorsey, Volume 1/1935 (Album)
18th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1975)
winner
Blood On The Tracks
winner
Footlifters
nominees
Joplin: The Complete Works Of Scott Joplin (Album)
Joplin: The Easy Winners (Album)
A Legendary Performer - Glenn Miller And His Orchestra
Kodaly: Orchestral Works (Complete) (Album)
Korngold: Die Tote Stadt (Album)
Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (Album)
The English Harpsichord (Byrd, Farnaby, Etc.) (Album)
The Real Lenny Bruce (Album)
The Tatum Solo Masterpieces (Album)
Gagliano: La Dafne (Album)
Gershwin: "Gershwin's S'wonderful" (Album)
Haydn: Symphonies 93-104 (Album)
17th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1974)
winner
The Hawk Flies
winner
Korngold: The Classic Erich Wolfgang Korngold
winner
For The Last Time
nominees
Scriabin: Piano Music (Complete) Vol. II (Album)
The Pianist (Album)
Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani (Album)
The World Is Still Waiting For The Sunrise (Album)
Weber: Der Freischutz (Album)
Berlioz: The Damnation Of Faust (Album)
Citizen Kane - The Classic Film Scores of Bernard Herrmann
Humperdinck: Hansel And Gretel (Album)
Mahler: Symphony No. 10 (Album)
50 Years Of Film Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Recordings)
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Album)
Rachmaninoff: The Bells And Three Russian Songs (Album)
16th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1973)
winner
God Is In The House
winner
Hindemith: Sonatas For Piano
nominees
Berio: Recital 1 (For Cathy) (Album)
Bizet: Carmen (Album)
Debussy: La Mer/Prelude L'Apres Midi D'Un Faune And Ravel: Daphnis And Chloe Suite #2 (Album)
Dvorák: Piano Quartet In E Flat Major, Op. 87
Haydn: Symphony No. 20 In C - Symphony No. 35 In B Flat (Album)
Lonesome, On'ry And Mean (Album)
Haydn: Symphony No. 36 And Symphony No. 48 (Album)
Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back (Album)
Remember Marilyn (Album)
Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2 In C Minor For Piano (Album)
This Is Jimmie Rodgers (Album)
The Woods So Wild (Album)
Bach: Brandenburg Concerti (Album)
15th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1972)
winner
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2 (A London Symphony)
winner
Tom T. Hall's Greatest Hits
nominees
Julian And John (Album)
Michael Rabin -- In Memoriam (Album)
String Quartets Of The New Viennese School (Album)
Bunny Berigan, His Trumpet And His Orchestra, Volume I (Album)
Lenny Bruce/Carnegie Hall (Album)
Let My Children Hear Music (Album)
Super Chief (Album)
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (Album)
Haydn: Symphonies (Complete) Vols. 4 And 5 (Album)
John Ogdon Plays Alkan (Album)
14th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1971)
winner
Sam, Hard And Heavy
nominees
The Genius Of Louis Armstrong (Album)
This Is Benny Goodman (Album)
Honky Tonkin' With Charlie Walker (Album)
Louis Armstrong July 4, 1900 - July 6, 1971 (Album)
Miles Davis (Album)
Music Of Varese (Album)
Piano Rags By Scott Joplin (Album)
13th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1970)
winner
The World's Greatest Blues Singer
nominees
I Do Not Play No Rock 'n Roll (Album)
Judy. London. 1969. (Album)
Sixteen All Time Greatest Hits (Album)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Album)
As I See It (Album)
Bitches Brew (Album)
Hold Back The World (Album)
12th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1969)
winner
Nashville Skyline
nominees
Chicago Mess Around (Album)
David's Album (Album)
John Hartford (Album)
Mabel Mercer And Bobby Short At Town Hall (Album)
11th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1968)
winner
Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison
nominees
Francis A. And Edward K. - Francis Albert Sinatra And Edward Kennedy Ellington (Album)
Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits (Album)
Anthology Of Indian Music, Volume One (Album)
Ethel Waters On Stage And Screen 1925-1940 (Album)
10th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1967)
winner
Suburban Attitudes In Country Verse
nominees
Extra Special (Album)
Francis Albert Sinatra/Antonio Carlos Jobim (Album)
Listen! (Album)
The Earth (Album)
The Far East Suite (Album)
9th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1966)
winner
Sinatra At The Sands
nominees
Edward R. Murrow - A Reporter Remembers - Vol. 1 The War Years (Album)
The Ellington Era, Vol. II (Album)
Ben Colder Strikes Again
Dr. Zhivago (Album)
8th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1965)
winner
September Of My Years
nominees
Berg: Wozzeck (Album)
Father And Son - Hank Williams Sr. And Hank Williams Jr. (Album)
Grand Terrace Band (Album)
The Voice Of The Uncommon Man (Album)
7th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1964)
winner
Mexico (Legacy Collection)
nominees
Quincy Jones Explores The Music Of Henry Mancini (Album)
The Definitive Piaf (Album)
The Young Chevalier (Album)
Beyond The Fringe '64 (Album)
Getz/Gilberto (Album)
Mahler: Symphony No 5 In C Sharp Minor/Berg: "Wozzeck" Excerpts (Album)
6th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1963)
winner
The Ellington Era
nominees
Evening Of Elizabethan Music (Album)
The Amazing Amanda Ambrose (Album)
The Badmen (Album)
