Monkey Boy's Grammy Page

So far all that's on this page is categories and winners for 1996.




Album of the Year

"Jagged Little Pill" by Alanis Morissette



Best Solo Performance with Orchestra

"The American Album," Itzhak Perlman, violin



Best Female Country Vocal Performance

Alison Krauss



Best Pop Album

"Turbulent Indigo" by Joni Mitchell



Contemporary Soul Gospel Album

"Alive in His Presence" by CeCe Winans



Song of the Year

"Kiss from a Rose" by Seal



Best Female Pop Performance

"No More 'I Love You's'"by Annie Lennox



Best Rap Solo Performance

"Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio



Best Female Rock Vocal Performance

"You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morissette



Best Male Country Vocal

"Go Rest High on That Mountain" by Vince Gill



Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group

Hootie and the Blowfish



Best New Artist

Hootie and the Blowfish



Best Hard Rock Performance

"Spin the Black Circle" by Pearl Jam



Best Male Rock Vocal Performance

"You Don't Know How It Feels" by Tom Petty



Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance

"Duets II" by Frank Sinatra



Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals

"Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" by The Chieftains with Van Morrison



Best Pop Instrumental Performance

"Mariachi Suite" by Los Lobos



Best R& B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal

"Creep" by TLC



Best R&B Song

"For Your Love" by Stevie Wonder



Best R&B Album

"CrazySexyCool" by TLC



Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group

"I'll Be There for You/You're All I need to Get By" by Method Man featuring Mary J. Blige



Best Rap Album

"Poverty's Paradise"

Naughty by Nature



Best Country Album

"The Woman in Me" by Shania Twain



Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal

"Here Comes the Rain" by the Mavericks



Best Latin Jazz Performance

"Antonio Brasiliero" by Jobim



Best Female R&B Performance

"I Aplogize" by Anita Baker



Best Male R&B Performance

"For Your Love" by Stevie Wonder



Best Male Rock Vocal Performance

"You Don't Know How It Feels" by Tom Petty



Best Rock Instrumental Performance

"Jessica" by the Allman Brothers Band



Best Metal Performance

"Happiness in Slavery" by Nine Inch Nails



Best Rock Song

"You Oughta Know" by Glen Ballard & Alanis Morissette



Best Rock Album

"Jagged Little Pill" by Alanis Morissette



Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With
Vocal

"Run-Around" by Blues Traveler

Best Alternative Music Performance

"MTV Unplugged in New York" by Nirvana



Best Male Top Vocal Performance

"Kiss from a Rose" by Seal



Producer of the Year

Babyface



Best Contemporary Jazz Performance

"We Live Here" by the Pat Metheny Group



Best Jazz Instrumental Solo

"Impressions," Michael Brecker soloist, track from "Infinity" by McCoy Tyner



Best Jazz Instrumental Performance

"Infinity" by McCoy Tyner



Best Jazz Vocal Performance

"An Evening with Lena Horne" by Lena Horne



Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance

"All Blues" by Tom Scott



Best Latin Jazz Performance

"Antonio Brasiliero" by Jobim



Best Country Collaboration with Vocals

"Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart"

Shenandoah with Alison Krauss



Best Country Instrumental Performance

"Hightower" featuring Bela Fleck and Johnny Gimble



Best Bluegrass Album

"Unleashed" by the Nashville Bluegrass Band



Best Country Song

"Go Rest High on that Mountain," Vince Gill, songwriter



Best Rock Gospel Album

"Lesson of Love" by Ashley Cleveland



Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album

"I'll Lead You Home" by Michael W. Smith



Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel or Bluegrass Gospel Album

"Amazing Grace -- A Country Salute to Gospel" by various artists, Bill Hearn, producer



Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album

"Shirley Caesar Live... He Will Come"



Best Gospel Album by a Choir or Chorus

"Praise Him... Live!"



Best Latin Pop Performance

"Amor" by Jon Secada



Best Tropical Latin Performance

"Abriendo Puertas" by Gloria Estefan



Best Mexican-American Performance

"Flaco Jimenez" by Flaco Jimenez



Best Traditional Blues Album

"Chill Out" by John Lee Hooker



Best Contemporary Blues Album

"Slippin' In" by Buddy Guy



Best Reggae Album

"Boombastic" by Shaggy



Best Music Video, short form

"Scream" by Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson; Cean Chaffin, video producer; Mark Romanek, video director



Best Music Video, long form

"Secret World Live" by Peter Gabriel; Robert Warr, video producer; Francois Girard, video director



Best Musical Show Album

"Smokey Joe's Cafe -- The Songs of Leiber and Stoller," Jerry Leiber, Arif Mardin, Mike Stoller, producers



Best Spoken Comedy Album

"Crank Calls" by Jonathan Winter



Best Musical Album for Children

"Sleepy Time Lullabys" by Barbara Bailey Hutchison



Best Spoken Word Album for Children

"Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf" by Patrick Stewart



Best Polka Album

"I Love to Polka" by Jimmy Sturr



Best Traditional Folk Album

"South Coast" by Ramblin' Jack Elliott



Best Contemporary Folk Album

"Wrecking Ball" by Emmylou Harris



Best New Age Album

"Forest" by George Winston



Best World Music Album

"Boheme" by Deep Forest



Best Album Notes

"The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles, Volume 3: 1972-75," Rob Bowman, notes writer



Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

"Wildflowers" by Tom Petty; Dave Bianco, Richard Dodd, Stephen McLaughlin (who learned he won in a QuickTime Live! chatroom!!!), Jim Scott, engineers



Best Recording Package

"Turbulent Indigo," Robbie Cavolina, Joni Mitchell, art directors



Best Recording Package -- Boxed Set

"Civilization Phaze III," Frank Zappa, Gail Zappa, art directors



Best Instrumental Composition

"A View from the Side" by the Bill Holman Band, Bill Holman, composer



Best Instrumental CompositionWritten for a Motion Picture or for Television.

"Crimson Tide," Hans Zimmer, Composer



Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television

"Colors of the Wind" (from Pocahontas), Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz, Songwriters



Best Instrumental Arrangement

"Lament," from Tangence -- J.J. Johnson with Robert Farnon Orchestra, Robert Farnon, Arranger



Best Instrumental Arrangement with Accompanying Vocal

"I Get a Kick Out of You," from Velvet & Brass- - Mel Torme with Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass



Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album

"Phenomenol Woman (Maya Angelou)", Maya Angelou.



Best Historical Album

The Heifetz Collection, Jascha Heitfetz & Various Artists.



Best Classical Engineered Recording

Bartok: Concerto or Orchestra; "Kossuth" Symphonic poem (Herbert Blomstedt,conductor)

Michael Mailes, Jonathan Stokes, Engineers



Best Orchestral Performance

(Award to Conductor and Orchestra) Debussy: La Mer; Pierre Boulez, conductor; The Cleveland Orchestra



Best Opera Recording

(Awards to Conductor, Album Producers, Principal Soloists) Berlioz: Les Troyens; Charles Dutoit, Conductor; Ray Minshull, Producer; Gary Lakes, Francoise Pollet, Gino Quilico, Deborah Voigt, Principal Soloists; Orchestra and Chorus of Orchestra, Symphony of Montreal



Best Choral Performance

(Award to Choral and Symphony conductors)

Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem; Herbert Blomdstedt, Conductor; Vance George, Choir Director.



Best Chamber Music Performance

Brahms/Beethoven/Mozart: Clarinet Trios; Emanuel Ax, Piano; Yo-yo Ma, Cello; Richard Stoltzman, Clarinet.



Best Instrumental Soloist Performance, without Orchestra

Schubert: Piano Sonatas (B Flat Major & A Major), Radu Lupu, Piano



Best Classical Vocal Performance

The Echoing Air -- The Music of Henry Purcell (If Music be the Food of Love, Sweeter than Roses, etc.); Sylvia McNair, Soprano; The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood, conductor



Best Classical Contemporary Composition

Messiaen: Concert a Quatre; Olivier Messiaen, composer; Orchestra de l'Opera Basatille, Myung-Whun Chung, conductor



Classical Producer of the Year

Steven Epstein



Best Classical Album

Debussy: La Mer; Nocturns, Jeux, etc.

Pierre Boulez, Conductor; Karl-August Naegler, Producer; The Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus; Franklin Cohen, clarinet



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