The 65th annual Grammy Awards took place Sunday night at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. In case you’ve been hearing the prominent awards such as “Album of the Year”, “Record of the Year” etc, there are actually other aspects of music that the institution actually awards [LINK TO PART 1]. From Country, New Age, Ambient, or Chant, Jazz, Gospel, Latin, we provide the descriptions per category and of course the 2023 winners:
Country
1.Best Country Solo Performance
Description: “For new vocal or instrumental solo country recordings.”
2023 Winner: Live Forever – Willie Nelson
2. Best Country Duo/Group Performance
Description: “For new vocal or instrumental duo/group or collaborative country recordings.”
2023 Winner: Never Wanted To Be That Girl – Carly Pearce & Ashley McBryde
3. Best Country Song
Description: “A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.”
2023 Winner: Til You Can’t – Matt Rogers & Ben Stennis, songwriters (Cody Johnson)
4. Best Country Album
Description: “For albums containing greater than 50% playing time of new country recordings.”
2023 Winner: A Beautiful Time – Willie Nelson
New Age, Ambient, or Chant
5. Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album
Description: “For albums containing greater than 50% playing time of new vocal or instrumental New Age, ambient, or chant recordings.”
2023 Winner Mystic Mirror – White Sun
Jazz
6. Best Improvised Jazz Solo
Description: “For an instrumental jazz solo performance. Two equal performers on one recording may be eligible as one entry. If the soloist listed appears on a recording billed to another artist, the latter’s name is in parenthesis for identification. Singles or Tracks only.)”
2023 Winner: Endangered Species – Wayne Shorter & Leo Genovese, soloist
7. Best Jazz Vocal Album
Description: “For albums containing greater than 50% playing time of new vocal jazz recordings.”
2023 Winner: Linger Awhile – Samara Joy
8. Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Description: “For albums containing greater than 50% playing time of new instrumental jazz recordings.”
2023 Winner: New Standards Vol. 1 – Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, Linda May Han Oh, Nicholas Payton & Matthew Stevens
9. Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Description: “For albums containing greater than 50% playing time of new ensemble jazz recordings.”
2023 Winner: Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra – Steven Feifke, Bijon Watson, Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra
10. Best Latin Jazz Album
Description: “For vocal or instrumental albums containing greater than 50% playing time of newly recorded material. The intent of this category is to recognize recordings that represent the blending of jazz with Latin, Iberian-American, Brazilian, and Argentinian tango music.”
2023 Winner: Fandango At The Wall In New York – Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Featuring The Congra Patria Son Jarocho Collective
Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music
11. Best Gospel Performance/Song
Description: “This award is given to the artist(s) and songwriter(s) (for new compositions) for the best traditional Christian, roots gospel or contemporary gospel single or track..”
2023 Winner: Kingdom – Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin; Kirk Franklin, Jonathan Jay, Chandler Moore & Jacob Poole, songwriters
12. Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
Description: “This award is given to the artist(s) and songwriter(s) (for new compositions) for the best contemporary Christian music single or track, (including pop, rap/hip-hop, Latin, or rock.)”
2023 Winner: Fear Is Not My Future – Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin; Kirk Franklin, Nicole Hannel, Jonathan Jay, Brandon Lake & Hannah Shackelford, songwriters
13. Best Metal Performance
Description: “For new vocal or instrumental solo, duo/group or collaborative metal recordings.”
2023 Winner: Degradation Rules – Ozzy Osbourne Featuring Tony Iommi
14. Best Gospel Album
Description: “For albums containing greater than 50% playing time of newly recorded, vocal, traditional or contemporary/R&B gospel music recordings.”
2023 Winner: Kingdom Book One Deluxe – Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin
15. Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
Description: “For albums containing greater than 50% playing time of newly recorded, vocal, contemporary Christian music, including pop, rap/hip hop, Latin, or rock recordings.”
2023 Winner: Breathe – Maverick City Music
16. Best Roots Gospel Album
Description: “For albums containing greater than 50% playing time of newly recorded, vocal, traditional/roots gospel music, including country, Southern gospel, bluegrass, and Americana recordings.”
2023 Winner: The Urban Hymnal – Tennessee State University Marching Band
Latin
17. Best Latin Pop Album
Description: “For albums containing greater than 50% playing time of new Latin pop recordings.”
2023 Winner: Pasieros – Rubén Blades & Boca Livre
18. Best Música Urbana Album
Description: “For albums containing greater than 50% playing time of new Música Urbana recordings.”
2023 Winner: Un Verano Sin Ti – Bad Bunny
19. Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album
Description: “For albums containing greater than 50% playing time of new Latin rock or alternative recordings.”
2023 Winner: MOTOMAMI – Rosalía
20. Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)
Description: “For albums containing greater than 50% playing time of new regional Mexican (banda, norteño, corridos, gruperos, mariachi, ranchera and Tejano) recordings.”
2023 Winner: Un Canto por México – El Musical – Natalia Lafourcade
21. Best Tropical Latin Album
Description: “For albums containing greater than 50% playing time of new tropical Latin recordings.”
2023 Winner: Pa’lla Voy – Marc Anthony#
