Best Original Jazz Composition

1962 • 4th Annual GRAMMY Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1960 and Aug 30, 1961

1962 Winner is Cannonball Adderly with "African Waltz"

African Waltz

Galt MacDermott

Nominees 1962

Winners

Year Winner Nomination Actions
1967 Duke Ellington In The Beginning God All Nominees
1966 Lalo Schifrin Jazz Suite On The Mass Texts All Nominees
1965 Lalo Schifrin The Cat All Nominees
1964 Steve Allen, Ray Brown Gravy Waltz All Nominees
1963 Vince Guaraldi Cast Your Fate To The Wind All Nominees
1962 Galt MacDermott African Waltz All Nominees
1961 Miles Davis, Gil Evans Sketches Of Spain All Nominees

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