Genre
Jazz
Wins*
616
Nominations*
2876
2016 - 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners
Best Improvised Jazz Solo
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
Best Jazz Vocal Album
Take Me To The Alley
Gregory Porter
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Country For Old Men
John Scofield
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Presidential Suite: Eight Variations On Freedom
Ted Nash Big Band
Best Latin Jazz Album
Tribute To Irakere: Live In Marciac
Chucho Valdés
All Nominations From This Genre
*Through the 65th GRAMMY Awards
Music Facts: Jazz
Jazz was founded by Black musicians in New Orleans in the late 19th century.
Some of the biggest names in jazz include Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Louis Armstrong.
The artist with the most jazz GRAMMY wins, the late jazz composer and musician Chick Corea garnered 25 GRAMMY wins and 67 GRAMMY nominations overall across his six-decade career. He posthumously won his most recent GRAMMYs at the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards in 2021, one month after his death, for Best Improvised Jazz Solo and Best Jazz Instrumental Album.