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Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album
A gold gramophone trophy with a plaque set on a table
Gilded gramophone trophy presented to Grammy Award winners
Descriptionquality instrumental albums in the pop music genre
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded2001
Last awarded2010
Websitegrammy.com

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,[1] 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".[2]

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".[3] 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 2010, no artist has received the award more than once. American artists have been presented with the award more than any other nationality, though it has been presented to musicians or groups from the United Kingdom twice and from Cuba once. The band Spyro Gyra holds the record for the most nominations without a win, with four.

Recipients

A man in a multi-colored dress shirt with a black guitar strapped around his neck.
2002 award winner, Steve Lukather
A man in a gray shirt with his eyes closed and a black guitar strapped around his neck.
2007 award winner, Peter Frampton
A man wearing a dress shirt and glasses, playing a banjo. A light is shining down on him from above, casting a blue shade over him.
Béla Fleck of the 2009 award-winning group, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
A man wearing a black hat and jacket.
2010 award winner, Booker T. Jones
Year[I] Performing artist(s) Nationality Work Nominees Ref.
2001 Joe Jackson  United Kingdom Symphony No. 1 [4]
2002 Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather  United States No Substitutions: Live in Osaka [5]
2003 Norman Brown  United States Just Chillin' [6]
2004 Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban  United States
 Cuba 		Mambo Sinuendo [7]
2005 Various artists[II] — Henry Mancini: Pink Guitar [8]
2006 Burt Bacharach  United States At This Time [9]
2007 Peter Frampton  United Kingdom Fingerprints [10]
2008 Beastie Boys  United States The Mix-Up [11]
2009 Béla Fleck and the Flecktones  United States Jingle All the Way [12]
2010 Booker T. Jones  United States Potato Hole [13]

^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.
^[II] An award was presented to James R. Jensen as the producer of the album.

See also

References

General
  • "Grammy Award Winners". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 16, 2010. Note: User must select the "Pop" category as the genre under the search feature.
Specific
  1. ^ "Grammy Awards at a Glance". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  2. ^ "Overview". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  3. ^ "52nd OEP Category Description Guide" (PDF). National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. p. 5. Retrieved July 16, 2010.
  4. ^ "43rd Grammy Awards". CNN. February 21, 2001. Retrieved July 16, 2010.
  5. ^ "Complete List Of Grammy Nominees". CBS News. January 4, 2002. Retrieved July 16, 2010.
  6. ^ "Complete list of Grammy nominees; ceremony set for Feb. 23". San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst Corporation. January 8, 2003. p. 1. Retrieved July 16, 2010.
  7. ^ "Nominee list for the 46th Annual Grammy Awards". LiveDaily. December 4, 2003. Retrieved July 16, 2010.
  8. ^ "Nominee list for the 47th Annual Grammy Awards". LiveDaily. December 7, 2004. Retrieved July 16, 2010.
  9. ^ "The Complete List of Grammy Nominations". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. December 8, 2005. p. 1. Retrieved July 16, 2010.
  10. ^ "49th Annual Grammy Awards Winners List". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 16, 2010.
  11. ^ "50th annual Grammy Awards nominations". Variety. Reed Business Information. December 6, 2007. Retrieved July 16, 2010.
  12. ^ "The 51st Annual Grammy Awards Winners List". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 16, 2010.
  13. ^ "The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards Nominees List". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 16, 2010.
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