Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album (Grammy Awards)

Grammy Awards

The Grammy Award for 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, 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". The award for Best Pop Instrumental Album 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". Award recipients often include the producers, engineers, and/or mixers associated with the nominated work in addition to the recording artists. In 2005, the producer of a compilation album was the only award recipient. As of 2012, Larry Carlton and Booker T. Jones are the only musicians to receive the award more than once. Larry Carlton shares with the band Spyro Gyra the record for the most nominations with four.

Check all the winners of Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album presented under Grammy Awards since 2000 .

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Herb Alpert

Honored for : Steppin' Out

Nominations 2013 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Herb Alpert	Steppin' Out
Boney James	The Beat
Earl Klugh	HandPicked
Dave Koz	Summer Horns
Gerald Albright	Summer Horns
Mindi Abair	Summer Horns
Richard Elliot	Summer Horns
The Jeff Lorber Fusion	Hacienda

Chris Botti, Allen Sides, Bobby Colomby

Honored for : Impressions

(Chris Botti, artist. Allen M. Sides, engineer/mixer. Bobby Colomby, producer.)

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Gerald Albright	24/7
Norman Brown	24/7
Chris Botti	Impressions
Bobby Colomby	Impressions
Allen Sides	Impressions
Larry Carlton	Four Hands & A Heart Volume One
Dave Koz	Live At The Blue Note Tokyo
Arun Shenoy	Rumbadoodle

Booker T. Jones

Honored for : The Road From Memphis

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Booker T. Jones	The Road From Memphis
Jenny Oaks Baker	Wish Upon A Star
Daniel Ho	E Kahe Malie
Dave Koz	Hello Tomorrow
Brian Setzer	Setzer Goes Instru-MENTAL!

Larry Carlton, Tak Matsumoto

Honored for : Take Your Pick

(Producers, Artirts)

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Larry Carlton	Take Your Pick
Tak Matsumoto	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

Booker T. Jones, Rob Schnapf, Doug Boehm

Honored for : Potato Hole

(Engineers/Mixers, Artist, Producers)

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Chris Botti	Chris Botti in Boston
Hiroshima	Legacy
Booker T. Jones	Potato Hole
The Rippingtons	Modern Art
Russ Freeman	Modern Art
Spyro Gyra	Down the Wire

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Richard Battaglia, Robert Battaglia

Honored for : Jingle All the Way

(Engineers, Artist)

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Earl Klugh	The Spice of Life
Gerald Albright	Sax for Stax
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones	Jingle All the Way
Larry Carlton	Larry Carlton
Spyro Gyra	A Night Before Christmas

Beastie Boys, Jon Weiner, Adam Yauch, Mike D, Adam Horovitz

Honored for : The Mix-Up

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Chris Botti	Italia
Spyro Gyra	Good to Go-Go
Dave Koz	At the Movies
Kirk Whalum	Roundtrip
Adam Horovitz	The Mix-Up
Beastie Boys	The Mix-Up
Adam Yauch	The Mix-Up
Mike D	The Mix-Up
Jon Weiner	The Mix-Up

Peter Frampton, Chuck Ainlay, Aaron Swihart, Gordon Kennedy

Honored for : Fingerprints

(Artist, Producer, Engineers/mixers)

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Fourplay	X
Spyro Gyra	Wrapped in a Dream
Gerald Albright	New Beginnings
Larry Carlton	Fire Wire
Gordon Kennedy	Fingerprints
Peter Frampton	Fingerprints
Chuck Ainlay	Fingerprints
Aaron Swihart	Fingerprints

Burt Bacharach, Allen Sides

Honored for : At This Time

(Engineer/mixer, Artist)

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Eric Johnson	Bloom
Earl Klugh	Naked Guitar
Jeff Lorber	Flipside
Daniel Lanois	Belladonna
Allen Sides	At This Time
Burt Bacharach	At This Time

James R. Jensen

Honored for : Henry Mancini: Pink Guitar

(Producer)

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Boney James	Pure
Dave Koz	Saxophonic
	Forever, for Always, for Luther Various Artists
Mason Williams	EP 2003: Music for the Epicurean Harkener
James R. Jensen	Henry Mancini: Pink Guitar

Ry Cooder, Jerry Boys, Manuel Galbán

Honored for : Mambo sinuendo

(Artist, Engineer/mixer)

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Kenny G	Wishes
Jim Brickman	Peace
Prince	N.E.W.S.
George Winston	Night Divides the Day: The Music of the Doors
Ry Cooder	Mambo sinuendo
Manuel Galbán	Mambo sinuendo

Norman Brown, Paul Brown

Honored for : Just Chillin'

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Kenny G	Paradise
Boney James	Ride
John Tesh	The Power of Love
Kirk Whalum	The Christmas Message
Paul Brown	Just Chillin'
Norman Brown	Just Chillin'

Neil Citron, Larry Carlton, Steve Vai, Yoshiyasu Kumada, Steve Lukather

Honored for : No Substitutions: Live in Osaka

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
Kirk Whalum	Unconditional
Neal Schon	Voice
Dave Koz	A Smooth Jazz Christmas
Acoustic Alchemy	AArt
Yoshiyasu Kumada	No Substitutions: Live in Osaka
Larry Carlton	No Substitutions: Live in Osaka
Steve Lukather	No Substitutions: Live in Osaka
Steve Vai	No Substitutions: Live in Osaka
Neil Citron	No Substitutions: Live in Osaka

Joe Jackson, Dan Gellert

Honored for : Symphony No. 1

Nominations 2000 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
William Orbit	Pieces in a Modern Style
Kirk Whalum	Hymns in the Garden
Kenny G	Faith: A Holiday Album
Blue Man Group	Audio
Joe Jackson	Symphony No. 1
Dan Gellert	Symphony No. 1

Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album