Grammy Awards of 1996

Infobox Grammy Awards
name = 38th


imagesize = 150px
date = February 28, 1996
venue = Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
host = Ellen DeGeneres
network = CBS
next = 1997
last = 1995

The 38th Grammy Awards were held on February 28, 1996. The awards recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. The highest number of nominations in this year's awards was six each to Alanis Morissette and Mariah Carey, but although first-time nominee Alanis won four out her six nominations, Mariah, considered by many to be at the peak of her career and also having received the highest number of simultaneous nominations in her career up to that point, was completely shut out.

Award winners:

*Record of the Year
**Trevor Horn (producer) & Seal for "Kiss From a Rose"

*Album of the Year
**Glen Ballard (producer) & Alanis Morissette for "Jagged Little Pill"

*Song of the Year
**Seal (songwriter) for "Kiss From a Rose"

*Best New Artist
**Hootie & the Blowfish

Alternative

*Best Alternative Music Performance
**Nirvana for "MTV Unplugged in New York"

Blues

*Best Traditional Blues Album
**John Lee Hooker for "Chill Out"
*Best Contemporary Blues Album
**Buddy Guy for "Slippin' In"

Children's

*Best Musical Album for Children
**J. Aaron Brown, David R. Lehman (producers) & Barbara Bailey Hutchison for "Sleepy Time Lullabys"
*Best Spoken Word Album for Children
**Dan Broatman, Martin Sauer (producers) & Patrick Stewart for "Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf "

Classical

*Best Orchestral Performance
**Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the Cleveland Orchestra for "Debussy: La Mer"
*Best Classical Vocal Performance
**Christopher Hogwood (conductor), Sylvia McNair & the Academy of Ancient Music for "The Echoing Air - The Music of Henry Purcell"
*Best Opera Recording
**Raymond Minshull (producer), Charles Dutoit (conductor), Gary Lakes, Francoise Pollet, Gino Quilico, Deborah Voigt & L'Orchestra Symphonie Montreal & Chorus for "Berlioz: Les Troyens"
*Best Choral Performance
**Herbert Blomstedt (conductor), Vance George (choir director) & the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for "Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem"
*Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)
**Seiji Ozawa (conductor), Itzhak Perlman & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for "The American Album - Works of Bernstein, Barber, Foss"
*Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)
**Radu Lupu for "Schubert: Piano Sonatas (B Flat Major and A Major)"
*Best Chamber Music Performance
**Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma & Richard Stoltzman for "Brahms/Beethoven/Mozart: Clarinet Trios"
*Best Classical Contemporary Composition
**Olivier Messiaen (composer) & Myung-Whun Chung (conductor) for "Messiaen: Concert a Quatre"
*Best Classical Album
**Karl-August Naegler (producer), Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus for "Debussy: La Mer; Nocturnes; Jeux"

Composing and arranging

*Best Instrumental Composition
**Bill Holman (composer) for "A View From the Side" performed by The Bill Holman Band
*Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television
**Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz (songwriters) for "Colors of the Wind" performed by Judy Kuhn & Vanessa Williams
*Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television
**Hans Zimmer (composer) for "Crimson Tide"
*Best Instrumental Arrangement
**Robert Farnon (arranger) for "Lament" performed by J. J. Johnson & the Robert Farnon Orchestra
*Best Instrumental Arrangement with Accompanying Vocal(s)
**Rob McConnell (arranger) for "I Get a Kick Out of You" performed by Mel Tormé with Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass

Country

*Best Female Country Vocal Performance
**Alison Krauss for "Baby, Now That I've Found You"
*Best Male Country Vocal Performance
**Vince Gill for "Go Rest High on That Mountain"
*Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
**The Mavericks for "Here Comes the Rain"
*Best Country Collaboration with Vocals
**Alison Krauss & Shenandoah for "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart"
*Best Country Instrumental Performance
**Asleep at the Wheel, Béla Fleck & Johnny Gimble for "Hightower"
*Best Country Song
**Vince Gill (songwriter) for "Go Rest High on That Mountain"
*Best Country Album
**Robert John "Mutt" Lange (producer) & Shania Twain for "The Woman in Me"
*Best Bluegrass Album
**The Nashville Bluegrass Band for "Unleashed"

Folk

*Best Traditional Folk Album
**Ramblin' Jack Elliott for "South Coast"
*Best Contemporary Folk Album
**Emmylou Harris for "Wrecking Ball"

Gospel

*Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
**Michael W. Smith for "I'll Lead You Home"
*Best Rock Gospel Album
**Ashley Cleveland for "Lesson of Love"
*Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album
**Shirley Caesar for "Shirley Caesar Live - He Will Come"
*Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
**CeCe Winans for "Alone In His Presence"
*Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel or Bluegrass Gospel Album
**Bill Hearn (producer) for "Amazing Grace - A Country Salute to Gospel" performed by various artists
*Best Gospel Album by a Choir or Chorus
**Carol Cymbala (choir director) for "Praise Him - Live!" performed by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir

Historical

*Best Historical Album
**John Pfeiffer (producer & notes writer), Ray Hall, Thomas MacCluskey, James P. Nichols, Anthony Salvatore, Jon M. Samuels, David Satz (engineers), J.J. Stelmach (art director), Gabriel Banat, Grant Beglarian, Robert Cowan, Mortimer W. Frank, Richard Freed, Erick Friedman, Harris Goldsmith, Josefa Heifetz, George Jellinek, Irving Kolodin, Jacob Lateiner, Laurence Lesser, Myra C. Livingston, John Maltese, John Anthony Maltese, Leonard Pennario & Brooks Smith (notes writers) for "The Heifetz Collection" performed by Jascha Heifetz & various artists

Jazz

*Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
**Michael Brecker for "Impressions"
*Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group
**McCoy Tyner Trio & Michael Brecker for "Infinity"
*Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance
**Tom Scott for "All Blues" performed by the GRP All-Star Big Band
*Best Jazz Vocal Performance
**Lena Horne for "An Evening With Lena Horne"
*Best Contemporary Jazz Performance
**Pat Metheny Group for "We Live Here"
*Best Latin Jazz Performance
**Jobim for "Antonio Brasileiro"

Latin

*Best Latin Pop Performance
**Jon Secada for "Amor"
*Best Tropical Latin Performance
**Gloria Estefan for "Abriendo Puertas"
*Best Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance
**Flaco Jimenez for "Flaco Jimenez"

Musical Show

*Best Musical Show Album
**Arif Mardin, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller (producers) & the original Broadway cast for "Smokey Joe's Cafe - The Songs of Leiber & Stoller"

Music video

*Best Music Video, Short Form
**Cean Chaffin (producer), Mark Romanek (director), Janet Jackson & Michael Jackson for "Scream"
*Best Music Video, Long Form
**Robert Warr (producer), Francois Girard (director) & Peter Gabriel for "Secret World Live"

New Age

*Best New Age Album
**George Winston for "Forest"

Packaging and Notes

*Best Recording Package
**Joni Mitchell & Robbie Cavolina (art directors) for "Turbulent Indigo" performed by Joni Mitchell
*Best Recording Package - Boxed
**Frank Zappa & Gail Zappa (art directors) for" Civilization Phaze III" performed by Frank Zappa
*Best Album Notes
**Rob Bowman (notes writer) for "The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 3: 1972 - 1975 " performed by various artists

Polka

*Best Polka Album
**Jimmy Sturr for "I Love to Polka"

Pop

*Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
**Annie Lennox for "No More 'I Love Yous'"
*Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
**Seal for "Kiss From a Rose"
*Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
**Hootie & the Blowfish for "Let Her Cry"
*Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
**The Chieftains & Van Morrison for "Have I Told You Lately"
*Best Pop Instrumental Performance
**Los Lobos for "Mariachi Suite"
*Best Pop Album
**Larry Klein (producer) & Joni Mitchell (producer & artist) for "Turbulent Indigo"

Production and engineering

*Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
**David Bianco, Jim Scott, Richard Dodd & Stephen McLaughlin (engineers) for "Wildflowers" performed by Tom Petty
*Best Classical Engineered Recording
**Jonathan Stokes, Michael Mailes (engineers), Herbert Blomstedt (conductor) & the San Francisco Symphony for "Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra; " Kossuth" - Symphonic Poem"
*Producer of the Year
**Babyface
*Classical Producer of the Year
**Steven Epstein

R&B

*Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
**Anita Baker for "I Apologize"
*Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
**Stevie Wonder for "For Your Love"
*Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
**TLC for "Creep"
*Best Rhythm & Blues Song
**Stevie Wonder (songwriter) for "For Your Love"
*Best R&B Album
**TLC for "CrazySexyCool"

Rap

*Best Rap Solo Performance
**Coolio for "Gangsta's Paradise"
*Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
**Mary J. Blige & Method Man for "I'll Be There for You"/"You're All I Need to Get By"
*Best Rap Album
**Naughty by Nature for "Poverty's Paradise"

Reggae

*Best Reggae Album
**Shaggy for "Boombastic"

Rock

*Best Female Rock Vocal Performance
**Alanis Morissette for "You Oughta Know"
*Best Male Rock Vocal Performance
**Tom Petty for "You Don't Know How It Feels"
*Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
**Blues Traveler for "Run-Around"
*Best Rock Instrumental Performance
**Allman Brothers Band for "Jessica"
*Best Hard Rock Performance
**Pearl Jam for "Spin the Black Circle"
*Best Metal Performance
**Nine Inch Nails for "Happiness in Slavery"
*Best Rock Song
**Alanis Morissette & Glen Ballard (songwriters) for "You Oughta Know" performed by Alanis Morissette
*Best Rock Album
**Glen Ballard (producer) & Alanis Morissette for "Jagged Little Pill"

poken

*Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album
**Maya Angelou for "Phenomenal Woman"
*Best Spoken Comedy Album
**Jonathan Winters for "Crank Calls "

Trad Pop

*Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance
**Frank Sinatra for "Duets II"

World

*Best World Music Album
**Deep Forest for "Boheme"

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