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Best Instrumental Jazz Album

2012 • 54th Annual Grammy Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 2010 and Aug 30, 2011

2012 Winner is Corea, Clarke & White with "Forever"

Nominees 2012

Winners

Year Winner Work
2026 Sullivan Fortner, Peter Washington, Marcus Gilmore Southern Nights
2025 Chick Corea, Béla Fleck Remembrance
2024 Billy Childs The Winds Of Change
2023 Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, Linda May Han Oh, Nicholas Payton, Matthew Stevens New Standards Vol. 1
2022 Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette, Gonzalo Rubalcaba Skyline
2021 Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Brian Blade Trilogy 2
2020 Brad Mehldau Finding Gabriel
2019 Wayne Shorter Emanon
2018 Billy Childs Rebirth
2017 John Scofield Country For Old Men
2016 John Scofield Past Present
2015 Chick Corea Trilogy
2014 Terri Lyne Carrington Money Jungle: Provocative In Blue
2013 Pat Metheny Unity Band
2012 Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea, Lenny White Forever
2011 James Moody Moody 4B
2010 John McLaughlin Five Peace Band - Live
2009 Chick Corea, Gary Burton The New Crystal Silence
2008 Michael Brecker Pilgrimage
2007 Chick Corea The Ultimate Adventure
2006 Wayne Shorter Beyond The Sound Barrier
2005 McCoy Tyner, Gary Bartz, Terence Blanchard, Christian McBride, Lewis Nash Illuminations
2004 Wayne Shorter Alegría
2003 Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, Roy Hargrove Directions In Music
2002 Sonny Rollins This Is What I Do
2001 Branford Marsalis Contemporary Jazz
2000 Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes, Dave Holland Like Minds
1999 Herbie Hancock Gershwin's World
1998 Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny Beyond The Missouri Sky
1997 Michael Brecker Tales From The Hudson
1996 McCoy Tyner Infinity
1995 Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Wallace Roney, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams A Tribute To Miles
1994 Joe Henderson So Near, So Far (Musings For Miles)
1993 Branford Marsalis I Heard You Twice The First Time
1992 Oscar Peterson Saturday Night At The Blue Note
1991 Oscar Peterson The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live At The Blue Note
1990 Chick Corea Chick Corea Akoustic Band
1989 David Murray, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Cecil McBee, Roy Haynes Blues For Coltrane - A Tribute To John Coltrane
1988 Wynton Marsalis Marsalis Standard Time - Volume I
1987 Wynton Marsalis J Mood
1986 Wynton Marsalis Black Codes From The Underground
1985 Art Blakey New York Scene
1984 Phil Woods At The Vanguard
1983 Phil Woods "More" Live
1982 Gary Burton, Chick Corea Chick Corea & Gary Burton In Concert - Zurich, October 28, 1979
1981 Bill Evans We Will Meet Again
1980 Chick Corea, Gary Burton Duet
1979 Chick Corea Friends
1978 Phil Woods The Phil Woods Six - Live From The Showboat
1977 Chick Corea The Leprechaun
1976 Chick Corea No Mystery
1975 Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, Niels Pedersen The Trio
1974 Supersax Supersax Plays Bird
1973 Freddie Hubbard First Light
1972 Bill Evans The Bill Evans Album
1971 Bill Evans Alone
1970 Wes Montgomery Willow Weep For Me
1969 Bill Evans Bill Evans At The Montreux Jazz Festival
1968 Cannonball Adderley Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
1967 Wes Montgomery Goin' Out Of My Head
1966 Ramsey Lewis The "In" Crowd
1965 Stan Getz Getz/Gilberto
1964 Bill Evans Conversations With Myself
1963 Stan Getz Desafinado
1962 Andre Previn Andre Previn Plays Harold Arlen
1961 Andre Previn West Side Story
1960 Jonah Jones I Dig Chicks
1959 Count Basie Basie
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