Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

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Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
Awarded forQuality instrumental albums in the pop music genre
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded2001
Currently held bySnarky Puppy, Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2021)
Websitegrammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album (previously: Best Pop Instrumental Album) is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards,[1] to recording artists for quality instrumental albums in the pop music genre. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".[2]

The award was first presented to Joe Jackson in 2001. According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award is presented to albums containing "at least 51% playing time of newly recorded pop instrumental tracks".[3] As of 2020, Larry Carlton, Booker T. Jones and Snarky Puppy are the only musicians to receive the award more than once. Gerald Albright has received the most nominations, with six.

The award goes to the artist, producer and engineer/mixer of more than 50% of playing time on the winning album. A producer or engineer/mixer who worked on less than 50% of playing time, as well as the mastering engineer, can apply for a Winners Certificate.[4]

In 2015, the category was renamed Best Contemporary Instrumental Album and moved from the Pop category field to the Contemporary category field.[5] The category description did not change.

Recipients[]

A man in a multi-colored dress shirt with a black guitar strapped around his neck.
2002 award winner, Steve Lukather
A man in a gray shirt with his eyes closed and a black guitar strapped around his neck.
2007 award winner, Peter Frampton
A man wearing a dress shirt and glasses, playing a banjo. A light is shining down on him from above, casting a blue shade over him.
Béla Fleck of the 2009 award-winning group, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
A man wearing a black hat and jacket.
2010 award winner, Booker T. Jones
Year[I] Performing artist(s) Work Nominees Ref.
2001 Joe Jackson Symphony No. 1
  • Blue Man Group – Audio
  • Kenny G – Faith: A Holiday Album
  • William Orbit – Pieces in a Modern Style
  • Kirk Whalum – Hymns in the Garden
 [6]
2002 Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather No Substitutions: Live in Osaka
  • Acoustic Alchemy – AArt
  • Dave Koz and Friends – A Smooth Jazz Christmas
  • Neal Schon – Voice
  • Kirk Whalum – Unconditional
 [7]
2003 Norman Brown Just Chillin'
  • Kenny G – Paradise
  • Boney James – Ride
  • John Tesh – The Power of Love
  • Kirk Whalum – The Christmas Message
 [8]
2004 Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban Mambo Sinuendo
[9]
2005 Various artists[II] Henry Mancini: Pink Guitar
  • Boney James – Pure
  • Dave Koz – Saxophonic
  • Various artists – Forever, for Always, for Luther
  • Mason Williams – EP 2003: Music for the Epicurean Harkener
 [10]
2006 Burt Bacharach At This Time
  • Eric Johnson – Bloom
  • Earl Klugh – Naked Guitar
  • Daniel Lanois – Belladonna
  • Jeff Lorber – Flipside
 [11]
2007 Peter Frampton Fingerprints
[12]
2008 Beastie Boys The Mix-Up
  • Chris Botti – Italia
  • Dave Koz – At the Movies
  • Spyro Gyra – Good to Go-Go
  • Kirk Whalum - Roundtrip
 [13]
2009 Béla Fleck and the Flecktones Jingle All the Way
  • Gerald Albright – Sax for Stax
  • Larry Carlton – Greatest Hits Rerecorded, Volume One
  • Earl Klugh – The Spice of Life
  • Spyro Gyra – A Night Before Christmas
 [14]
2010 Booker T. Jones Potato Hole
  • Chris Botti – In Boston
  • Hiroshima – Legacy
  • The Rippingtons and Russ Freeman – Modern Art
  • Spyro Gyra – Down the Wire
 [15]
2011 Larry Carlton and Tak Matsumoto (B'z) Take Your Pick
  • Gerald Albright – Pushing the Envelope
  • Kenny G – Heart and Soul
  • Robby Krieger – Singularity
  • Kirk Whalum – Everything Is Everything: The Music of Donny Hathaway
 [16]
2012 Booker T. Jones The Road from Memphis
  • Jenny Oaks Baker – Wish Upon a Star: A Tribute to the Music of Walt Disney
  • Daniel Ho – E Kahe Malie
  • Dave Koz – Hello Tomorrow
  • Brian Setzer – Setzer Goes Instru-Mental!
 [17]
2013 Chris Botti Impressions
  • Gerald Albright and Norman Brown – 24/7
  • Larry Carlton – Four Hands and a Heart Volume One
  • Dave Koz – Live at the Blue Note Tokyo
  • Arun Shenoy – Rumbadoodle
 [18]
2014 Herb Alpert Steppin' Out
[19]
2015 Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer Bass & Mandolin
  • Mindi Abair – Wild Heart
  • Gerald Albright – Slam Dunk
  • Nathan East – Nathan East
  • Jeff Lorber, Chuck Loeb and Everette Harp – Jazz Funk Soul
 [20]
2016 Snarky Puppy and Metropole Orkest Sylva
  • Bill Frisell – Guitar in the Space Age!
  • Wouter Kellerman – Love Language
  • Marcus Miller – Afrodeezia
  • Kirk Whalum – The Gospel According to Jazz, Chapter IV
 [21]
2017 Snarky Puppy Culcha Vulcha
  • Herb Alpert – Human Nature
  • Bill Frisell – When You Wish Upon a Star
  • Steve Gadd Band – Way Back Home: Live from Rochester, NY
  • Chuck Loeb – Unspoken
 [22]
2018 The Jeff Lorber Fusion Prototype
  • Jerry Douglas Band – What If
  • Alex Han – Spirit
  • Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge – Mount Royal
  • Antonio Sanchez – Bad Hombre
 [23]
2019 Steve Gadd Band Steve Gadd Band
  • Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – The Emancipation Procrastination
  • Julian Lage – Modern Lore
  • Marcus Miller – Laid Black
  • Simon Phillips – Protocol 4
 [24]
2020 Rodrigo y Gabriela Mettavolution
  • Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – Ancestral Recall
  • Theo Croker – Star People Nation
  • Mark Guiliana – Beat Music! Beat Music! Beat Music!
  • Lettuce – Elevate
2021 Snarky Puppy Live at the Royal Albert Hall
  • Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Axiom
  • Jon Batiste - Chronology of a Dream: Live at the Village Vanguard
  • Black Violin - Take The Stairs
  • Grégoire Maret, Romain Collin & Bill Frisell - Americana
 [25]

^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.
^[II] An award was presented to James R. Jensen as the producer of the album.

See also[]

References[]

General
  • "Past Winners Search". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved March 4, 2011. Note: User must select the "Pop" category as the genre under the search feature.
Specific
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  18. ^ List of 2013 nominees Archived 2012-02-01 at the Wayback Machine
  19. ^ "2014 Nominees" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-12-16. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
  20. ^ "List of Nominees 2015" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-02-11. Retrieved 2014-12-06.
  21. ^ 15 February 2016
  22. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-12-14. Retrieved 2017-12-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  23. ^ Grammy.com, 28 November 2017
  24. ^ Lynch, Joe (December 7, 2018). "Grammys 2019 Nominees: The Complete List". Billboard. Archived from the original on December 7, 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2019.
  25. ^ 2021 Nominations List

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