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1989 • 31st Annual GRAMMY Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1987 and Aug 30, 1988

1989 Winner is Eric Clapton with "Crossroads"

Crossroads

Anthony DeCurtis

Nominees 1989

Winners

Year Winner Nomination
2026 Ashley Kahn Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings All Nominees
2025 Ricky Riccardi Centennial All Nominees
2024 Robert Gordon, Deanie Parker Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos All Nominees
2023 Bob Mehr Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) All Nominees
2022 Ricky Riccardi The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia And RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-1966 All Nominees
2021 Bob Mehr Dead Man's Pop All Nominees
2020 Steve Greenberg Stax '68: A Memphis Story All Nominees
2019 David Evans Voices Of Mississippi: Artists And Musicians Documented By William Ferris All Nominees
2018 Lynell George Live At The Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings All Nominees
2017 Ken Bloom, Richard Carlin Sissle And Blake Sing Shuffle Along All Nominees
2016 Joni Mitchell Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced All Nominees
2015 Ashley Kahn Offering: Live At Temple University All Nominees
2014 Neil Tesser Afro Blue Impressions (Remastered & Expanded) All Nominees
2013 Billy Vera Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles All Nominees
2012 Adam Machado Hear Me Howling!: Blues, Ballads & Beyond As Recorded By The San Francisco Bay By Chris Strachwitz In The 1960s All Nominees
2011 Robert Gordon Keep An Eye On The Sky All Nominees
2010 Dan Morgenstern The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946) All Nominees
2009 Francis Davis Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition All Nominees
2008 Bruce Nemerov John Work, III: Recording Black Culture All Nominees
2007 Dan Morgenstern If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It! All Nominees
2006 John Szwed The Complete Library Of Congress Recordings By Alan Lomax All Nominees
2005 Loren Schoenberg The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Woody Herman And His Orchestra & Woodchoppers (1945-1947) All Nominees
2004 Tom Piazza Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey All Nominees
2003 David Evans Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues - The Worlds Of Charley Patton All Nominees
2002 Walter Mosley Richard Pryor...And It's Deep Too! - The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (1968-1992) All Nominees
2002 Elijah Wald Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection - 1960-2000 The Journey Of Chris Strachwitz All Nominees
2001 Bob Blumenthal Miles Davis & John Coltrane - The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961 All Nominees
2000 Bob Blumenthal John Coltrane - The Classic Quartet: Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings All Nominees
1999 Bob Belden, Todd Coolman, Michael Cuscuna Miles Davis Quintet 1965-1968 All Nominees
1998 John Fahey, Luis Kemnitzer, Kip Lornell, Jon Pankake, Chuck Pirtle, Jeff Place, Neil V. Rosenberg, Luc Sante, Peter Stampfel, Eric von Schmidt Anthology Of American Folk Music - 1997 Expanded Edition All Nominees
1997 George Avakian, Bob Belden, Bill Kirchner, Phil Schaap The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings All Nominees
1996 Rob Bowman The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 3: 1972-1975 All Nominees
1995 Dan Morgenstern, Loren Schoenberg Louis Armstrong - Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man 1923-1934 All Nominees
1994 Buck Clayton, Phil Schaap, Joel E. Siegel The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959 All Nominees
1993 Thulani Davis, Tom Dowd, Ahmet Ertegun, Arif Mardin, Dave Marsh, David Ritz, Jerry Wexler Queen Of Soul - The Atlantic Recordings All Nominees
1992 James Brown, Nelson George, Alan M. Leeds, Harry Weinger, Cliff White Star Time All Nominees
1991 Dan Morgenstern Brownie - The Complete Emarcy Recordings Of Clifford Brown All Nominees
1990 Phil Schaap Bird - The Complete Charlie Parker On Verve All Nominees
1989 Anthony DeCurtis Crossroads All Nominees
1988 Orrin Keepnews Thelonious Monk - The Complete Riverside Recordings All Nominees
1987 Frank Conroy, Gary Giddins, Stephen Holden, Murray Kempton, Andrew Sarris, Jonathan Schwartz, Wilfrid Sheed The Voice - The Columbia Years 1943-1952 All Nominees
1986 Peter Guralnick Sam Cooke Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963 All Nominees
1985 Gunther Schuller, Martin Williams Big Band Jazz All Nominees
1984 Orrin Keepnews The Interplay Sessions All Nominees
1983 John Chilton, Richard M. Sudhalter Bunny Berigan - Giants Of Jazz All Nominees
1982 Dan Morgenstern Erroll Garner - Master Of The Keyboard All Nominees
1981 David McClintick Trilogy: Past, Present And Future All Nominees
1980 James Patrick, Bob Porter Charlie Parker - The Complete Savoy Sessions All Nominees
1979 Michael Brooks A Bing Crosby Collection, Vols. I & II All Nominees
1978 George T. Simon Bing Crosby - A Legendary Performer All Nominees
1977 Dan Morgenstern The Changing Face Of Harlem - The Savoy Sessions All Nominees
1976 Gunther Schuller Footlifters All Nominees
1976 Pete Hamill Blood On The Tracks All Nominees
1975 Charles R. Townsend For The Last Time All Nominees
1975 Dan Morgenstern The Hawk Flies All Nominees
1975 Rory Guy Korngold: The Classic Erich Wolfgang Korngold All Nominees
1974 Dan Morgenstern God Is In The House All Nominees
1974 Glenn Gould Hindemith: Sonatas For Piano All Nominees
1973 Tom T. Hall Tom T. Hall's Greatest Hits All Nominees
1973 James Lyons Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2 (A London Symphony) All Nominees
1972 Sam Samudio Sam, Hard And Heavy All Nominees
1971 Chris Albertson The World's Greatest Blues Singer All Nominees
1970 Johnny Cash Nashville Skyline All Nominees
1969 Johnny Cash Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison All Nominees
1968 John Loudermilk Suburban Attitudes In Country Verse All Nominees
1967 Stan Cornyn Sinatra At The Sands All Nominees
1966 Stan Cornyn September Of My Years All Nominees
1965 Carleton Beals, Stanton Catlin Mexico (Legacy Collection) All Nominees
1964 Stanley Dance, Leonard Feather The Ellington Era All Nominees

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