Grammy Award for Best Album Notes

The Grammy Award for Best Album Notes , in German "Grammy award for the best accompanying text for an album", is a music prize that has been awarded by the American Recording Academy in the field of music production since 1964 . The award goes to the author of the text accompanying the album.

History and background

Since 1959, the Grammy Awards are presented annually in numerous categories by the Recording Academy in the United States to recognize artistic achievement, technical competence, and overall excellence regardless of album sales or chart position.

One of these categories is the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes . The prize is awarded since 1964 and went for the first year at Leonard Feather and Stanley Dance for the text accompanying the album The Ellington Era of Duke Ellington . From 1973 to 1976 there were separate prices for classical and non-classical works.

Winners and nominees

year	Area	winner	nationality	plant	Artist	Nominees	Picture of the winner (s)
1964		Leonard Feather and Stanley Dance	United Kingdom  United States	The Ellington Era	Duke Ellington	Edward Albee and Harold Clurman for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Original cast Harold Arlen for The Barbra Streisand Album - Barbra Streisand Sidney Bock for An Evening of Elizabethan Music - Julian Bream Consort Bob Ballard for The Amazing Amanda Ambrose - Amanda Ambrose Benjamin A. Botkin, Sylvester Vigilante, Harold Preece and James Horan for The Badmen - Pete Seeger and others
1965		Stanton Catlin and Carleton Beals		Mexico (Legacy Collection)	Carlos Chavez	Neville Cardus for Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Berg : Wozzeck excerpts with a solo by Phyllis Curtin - Erich Leinsdorf (conductor) and the Boston Symphony Alexander Cohen for Beyond the Fringe '64 - original cast Stan Getz , João Gilberto and Gene Leess for Getz / Gilberto - Stan Getz and João Gilberto Rory Guy for The Definitive Piaf - Édith Piaf George Sponholtz for The Young Chevalier - Maurice Chevalier Jack Tracy for Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini - Quincy Jones
1966		Stan Cornyn	United States	September of My Years	Frank Sinatra	Dom Cerulli for The Voice of the Uncommon Man - Adlai Ewing Stevenson Stanley Dance for Grand Terrace Band - Earl Hines Charles Lamb for Father and Son - Hank Williams and Hank Williams Jr. Gustav Rudolf Sellner and Otto Gerdes for Berg: Wozzeck - Karl Böhm (conductor) and orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
1967		Stan Cornyn	United States	Sinatra at the Sands	Frank Sinatra	Harvey Cowen for Ben Colder Strikes Again - Ben Colder Stanley Dance and Ralph J. Gleason for The Ellington Era, Volume 2 - Duke Ellington Fred W. Friendly for Edward R. Murrow : A Reporter Remembers, Vol. I — The War Years Nelson Lyon for Doctor Zhivago - Maurice Jarre
1968		John D. Loudermilk	United States	Suburban Attitudes in Country Verse	John D. Loudermilk	Stan Cornyn for Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim - Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim Stanley Dance for The Far East Suite - Duke Ellington Rory Guy for Extra Special! - Peggy Lee Rod McKuen for The Earth - Rod McKuen with music by Anita Kerr Richard Oliver for lists! - Gary Lewis & the Playboys
1969		Johnny Cash	United States	At Folsom Prison	Johnny Cash	Stan Cornyn for Francis A. & Edward K. - Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington Miles Kreuger for Ethel Waters on Stage and Screen - Ethel Waters Richard Oliver for Anthology of Indian Music, Volume 1 - Ravi Shankar , Ali Akbar Kahn and Sundaram Balachander Pete Seeger for Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits - Pete Seeger
1970		Johnny Cash	United States	Nashville skyline	Bob Dylan	Joan Baez for David's album - Joan Baez John Dodds II for Chicago Mess Around - Johnny Dodds John Hartford for John Hartford - John Hartford Rex Reed for At Town Hall - Mabel Mercer and Bobby Short
1971		Chris Albertson	United States	The World's Greatest Blues Singer	Bessie Smith	Billy Edd Wheeler for As I See It - Jack Moran Ralph J. Gleason for Bitches Brew - Miles Davis Rod McKuen for Hold Back the World - Alexander's Greyhound Bass, Anthony d'Oberoff for I Do Not Play No Rock and Roll - Mississippi Fred McDowell Rex Reed for Judy. London. 1969 - Judy Garland James Goodfriend for Sixteen All Time Greatest Hits - Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys Arthur Knight for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - John Green Orchestra
1972		Sam Samudio	United States	Sam, hard and heavy	Sam the Sham	Colman Andrews for Miles Davis - Miles Davis Don Demichael for The Genius of Louis Armstrong - Louis Armstrong Nat Hentoff for Louis Armstrong: July 4, 1900 - July 6, 1971 - Louis Armstrong James Lyons for Music of Varese - Konstantin Simonovitch (conductor) with the Paris Instrumental Ensemble Joshua Rifkin for Piano Rags by Scott Joplin - Rifkin George T. Simon for This is Benny Goodman - Benny Goodman Tom West for Honky Tonkin 'with Charlie Walker - Charlie Walker
1973	Non-classic	Tom T. Hall	United States	Tom T. Hall's Greatest Hits	Tom T. Hall	Michael Brooks for Super Chief - Count Basie Albert Goldman for Lenny Bruce: Carnegie Hall - Lenny Bruce Charles Mingus for Let My Children Hear Music - Charles Mingus Dan Morgenstern for Bunny Berigan, His Trumpet and His Orchestra, Volume 1 - Bunny Berigan
1973	Classic	James Lyons		Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2 ("A London Symphony") Orchestra	London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of André Previn	David Cairns for Berlioz : Benvenuto Cellini - Colin Davis (conductor) with the London Symphony Orchestra Tom Eastwood for Julian and John - Julian Bream and John Williams Karolynne Gee for Michael Rabin: In Memoriam - Michael Rabin HC Robbins Landon for Haydn: Symphonies (Complete), Volumes 4 and 5 - Antal Doráti (conductor) with the Philharmonia Hungarica Sachverell Sitwell for John Ogdon Plays Alkan - John Ogdon Ursula Von Rauchhaupt for String Quartets of the New Viennesse School - La Salle Quartet
1974	Non-classic	Dan Morgenstern	United States	God is in the house	Art Tatum	Stan Cornyn for Ol 'Blue Eyes Is Back - Frank Sinatra Chet Flippo for Lonesome, On'ry and Mean - Waylon Jennings William Ivey for This is Jimmie Rodgers - Jimmie Rodgers Lionel Newman for Remember Marilyn - Marilyn Monroe
1974	Classic	Glenn Gould	Canada	Hindemith: Sonatas for Piano Complete	Villa Musica Ensemble	Misha Donat for Berio: Recital 1 ("For Cathy") - Luciano Berio (conductor) with the London Sinfonietta and Cathy Berberian as soloist Tom Eastwood for The Woods So Wild - Julian Bream Irving Kolodin for Dvorák : Piano Quartet in E flat major op. 87 - Guarneri Quartet with the soloist Arthur Rubinstein Harvey Phillips for Bizet : Carmen - Leonard Bernstein (conductor) with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the soloists Marilyn Horne , James McCracken , Andriana Maliponte and Tom Krause Alan Rich for Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor - Eugene Ormandy (conductor) with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the soloist Arthur Rubinstein HC Robbins Landon for Haydn : Symphony No. 36 and Symphony No. 48 - Antal Doráti (conductor) with the Philharmonia Hungarica HC Robbins Landon for Haydn : Symphony No. 20 in C major and Symphony No. 35 in B flat major - Antal Doráti (conductor) with the Philharmonia Hungarica Erik Smith for Bach: Brandenburg Concertos - Neville Marriner (conductor) with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Clair Van Ausdall for Debussy: La mer / Prelude à l'après-midi d'un faune Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2 - Eugene Ormandy (conductor) with the Philadelphia Orchestra
1975	Non-classic	Charles R. Townsend		For the last time	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Rudy Behlmer for 50 Years of Film Music - various artists Ralph J. Gleason for The Pianist - Duke Ellington JR Young for The World is Still Waiting for the Sunrise - Les Paul and Mary Ford
		Dan Morgenstern	United States	The Hawk Flies	Coleman Hawkins
1975	Classic	Rory Guy	United States	The Classic Erich Wolfgang Korngold	Ulf Hoelscher and the Symphony Orchestra of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk under the direction of Willy Mattes	David Cairns for Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust - Colin Davis (conductor) and the London Symphony Orchestra Deryck Cooke for Mahler: Symphony No. 10 - Wyn Morris (conductor) and the New Philharmonic Orchestra Donald Garvelmann for Scriabin : Piano Music (Complete), Volume 2 - various artists George Jellinek for Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel - Kurt Eichhorn (conductor) and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra with the soloists Anna Moffo and Helen Donath Irving Kolodin for Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani - James Levine (conductor) and the New Philharmonia Orchestra Christopher Palmer for Herrmann : Citizen Kane - Charles Gerhardt (conductor) and the National Philharmonic Orchestra Wolfram Schwinger for Weber: Der Freischütz - Erich Kleiber (conductor) Erik Smith for Mozart: Don Giovanni - Colin Davis (conductor) and the Royal Opera House Choir and Orchestra Clair W. Van Ausdall for Rachmaninov : The Bells and 3 Russian Songs - Eugene Ormandy (conductor) and the Temple University Choir
1976	Non-classic	Pete Hamill	United States	Blood on the Tracks	Bob Dylan	Ralph J. Gleason for The Real Lenny Bruce - Lenny Bruce Benny Green for The Tatum Solo Masterpieces - Art Tatum Tom T. Hall for Greatest Hits, Volume 2 - Tom T. Hall George T. Simon for Glenn Miller: A Legendary Performer - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
1976	Classic	Gunther Schuller	United States	Footlifters: A Century of American Marches	All-Star Band under the direction of Gunther Schuller	Rudi Blesh for Joplin : The Complete Works - Dick Hyman László Eősze for Kodály : Orchestral Works - Antal Doráti (conductor) and the Philharmonia Hungarica Rory Guy and Itzhak Perlman for Joplin : The Easy Winners with the soloists Itzhak Perlman and André Previn Rory Guy for Gershwin : Gershwin's Wonderful with the soloists Ralph Grierson and Artie Kane James H. Moore for Gagliano : La Dafne - Paul Vorwerk (conductor) with the Musica Pacifica Christopher Palmer for Korngold : Die Tote Stadt - Erich Leinsdorf (conductor) and the Münchner Rundfunkorchester with the soloists René Kollo , Carol Neblett, Hermann Prey and Benjamin Luxon Judith Robison for The English Harpsichord by William Byrd , Giles Farnaby and others - soloist Igor Kipnis HC Robbins Landon for Haydn : Symphonies 93–104 - Antal Doráti (conductor) and the Philharmonia Hungarica
1977		Dan Morgenstern	United States	The Changing Face of Harlem: Savoy Sessions	different artists	George R. Marek for Beethoven : The Five Piano Concertos - Daniel Barenboim (conductor) and the London Philharmonic Orchestra with the soloist Arthur Rubinstein Douglas B. Green for The Blue Sky Boys - The Blue Sky Boys Francis Robinson for Caruso: A Legendary Performer - Enrico Caruso Mort Goode for The Complete Tommy Dorsey, Volume 1 - 1935 - Tommy Dorsey
1978		George T. Simon	United States	Bing Crosby: A Legendary Performer	Bing Crosby	Chris Albertson for Stormy Blues - Billie Holiday Michael Brooks for The Lester Young Story, Volume 1 - Lester Young George T. Simon for Guy Lombardo: A Legendary Performer - Guy Lombardo Patrick Snyder for Flight Log - Jefferson Airplane
1979		Michael Brooks	United States	A Bing Crosby Collection, Volumes 1 and 2	Bing Crosby	Irving Kolodin and William Bender for Beethoven: Symphonies (9) - Herbert von Karajan (conductor) and the Berlin Philharmonic Leonard Feather for Ellington at Carnegie Hall - 1943 - Duke Ellington Alan Lomax for Georgia Sea Island Songs - various artists Dan Morgenstern for The Individualism of Pee Wee Russell - Pee Wee Russell Phil David Baker and RD Darell for Works of Carpenter / Gilbert / Adolph Weiss / Powell - Los Angeles Philharmonic
1980		Bob Porter and James Patrick		Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy Sessions	Charlie Parker	Melvin Maddocks for Giants of Jazz: Billie Holiday - Billie Holiday Dan Morgenstern and Stanley Dance for Giants of Jazz: Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington Dick Schory for The Magical Music of Walt Disney - various artists Richard M. Sudhalter for Hoagy Carmichael: A Legendary Performer and Composer - Hoagy Carmichael
1981		David McClintock		Trilogy: Past Present Future	Frank Sinatra	David Evans and Bruce Bastin for Atlanta Blues: 1933 - Blind Willie McTell , Curley Weaver and Buddy Moss Lauren Lortie for Elvis Aron Presley - Elvis Presley John McDonough and Richard M. Sudhalter for Giants of Jazz: Lester Young - Lester Young Dan Morgenstern for Chicago Concert 1956 - Louis Armstrong
1982		Dan Morgenstern	United States	Erroll Garner: Master of the Keyboard	Erroll Garner	CP Crumpacker for The Mario Lanza Collection - Mario Lanza John McDonough for Giants of Jazz: Pee Wee Russell - Pee Wee Russell David Thompson and Philip W. Payne for Giants of Jazz: Fats Waller - Fats Waller Dick Wellstood, Willa Rouder and Frank Kappler for Giants of Jazz: James P. Johnson - James P. Johnson
1983		John Chilton and Richard Sudhalter	United Kingdom	Giants of Jazz: Bunny Berigan	Bunny Berigan	Gary Giddins for Duke Ellington 1941 - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra Thornton Hördert for An Experiment in Modern Music: Paul Whiteman at Aeolian Hall - Paul Whiteman William Ivey for The Greatest Country Music Recordings of All Time - various artists William Ivey and Bob Pinson for 60 Years of Country Music - various artists Robert Palmer for Young Blood - The Coasters
1984		Orrin Keepnews	United States	The Interplay Sessions	Bill Evans	Lester Bangs for The Fugs Greatest Hits, Volume 1 - The Fugs Peter Guralnick for The Okeh Sessions - Big Maybelle Richard B. Hadlock for Giants of Jazz: Joe Sullivan - Joe Sullivan John McDonough for Seven Come Eleven - Benny Goodman
1985		Gunther Schuller and Martin Williams	United States	Big band jazz	different artists	Glenn Hinson for Virginia Traditions Work Songs - various artists Grover Sales for Amadeus (Original Soundtrack) - Neville Marriner (Conductor) and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields James Sundquist for An Anthology of Sacred Carols for Classical Guitar - James Sundquist Z Factor and Lorene Lortie for A Golden Celebration - Elvis Presley
1986		Peter Guralnick	United States	Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963	Sam Cooke	Lenny Kaye for Bleecker and McDougal: The Folk Scene of the 1960s - various artists Lenny Kaye for Crossroads: White Blues in the 1960s - various artists James R. Morris, JR Taylor, and Dwight Blocker Bowers for American Popular Song - Various Artists Neil Tesser for The Girl from Ipanema: The Bossa Nova Years - Stan Getz
1987		Gary Giddins , Wilfrid Sheed, Jonathan Schwartz, Murray Kempton, Andrew Sarris , Stephen Holden and Frank Conroy	United States	The Voice: The Columbia Years 1943-1952	Frank Sinatra	Cameron Crowe for biographer - Bob Dylan Richard Freed and Peter Eliot Stone for Virtuosi (Smithsonian Productions) - various artists David Hall, John Stratton, Tom Owen, Robert Tuggle and David Hamilton for The Mapleson Cylinders - Metropolitan Opera Lenny Kaye for Elektrock: The Sixties - various artists
1988		Orrin Keepnews	United States	The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings	Thelonious Monk	Peter Guralnick for The Complete Sun Sessions - Elvis Presley Nolan Porterfield for Jimmie Rodgers on Record: America's Blue Yodeler - Jimmie Rodgers Mark Tucker for Singers and Soloists of the Swing Bands - various artists Charles K. Wolfe for The Bristol Sessions - various artists
1989		Anthony DeCurtis	United States	Crossroads	Eric Clapton	John Edward Hasse for The Classic Hoagy Carmichael - Hoagy Carmichael Mike Kreuger for Show Boat - Frederica von Stade , Jerry Hadley , Teresa Stratas , Nancy Culp and Lillian Gish with John McGlinn (conductor) and the London Sinfonietta Dan Morgenstern for The Complete Commodore Jazz Recordings, Volume 1 - various artists Vaughn Webb for Virginia Tradition: Southwest Virginia Blues - Various Artists
1990		Phil Schaap	United States	Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve	Charlie Parker	Dwight Blocker Bowers for American Musical Theater: Shows, Songs and Stars - Various Artists Gene Lees for The Complete Fantasy Recordings - Bill Evans Howard Wright Marshall, Amy E. Skillman and Charles Walden for Now That's a Good Tune - Masters of Traditional Missouri Fiddling Martin Williams , Dick Katz and Francis Davis for Jazz Piano 1898–1964 - various artists
1991		Dan Morgenstern	United States	Brownie: The Complete Emarcy Recordings of Clifford Brown	Clifford Brown	Mary Katherine Aldin and Robert Palmer for Muddy Waters: The Chess Box - Muddy Waters Gary Giddons for Art Pepper: The Complete Galaxy Recordings - Art Pepper Robert Palmer for Bo Diddley: The Chess Box - Bo Diddley David Perry for The Jack Kerouac Collection - Jack Kerouac
1992		James Brown , Cliff White, Harry Weinger, Nelson George , and Alan M. Leeds	United States	Star time	James Brown	John Bauldie for The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased 1961–1991) 3 - Bob Dylan Rob Bowman for The Complete Stax / Volt Singles 1959–1968 - various artists Colin Escott for The Original Singles Collection. . . Plus - Hank Williams Robert Palmer for The Birth of Soul - Ray Charles
1993		Dave Marsh, Jerry Wexler , David Ritz, Thulani Davis, Ahmet Ertegün , Tom Down and Arif Mardin	United States  Turkey	Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings	Aretha Franklin	Will Friedwald and Dick Katz for The Complete Capitol Recordings of the Nat King Cole Trio - Nat King Cole Trio Peter Guralnick for The King of Rock 'n' Roll: The Complete 50s Masters - Elvis Presley Pete Welding and Lawrence Cohn for Roots n 'Blues the Retrospective (1925–1950) - various artists Robert Kimball and Richard Sudhalter for You're the Top: Cole Porter in the 1930s - various artists
1994		Buck Clayton , Phil Schaap, and Joel E. Siegel	United States	The Complete Billie Holliday on Verve 1945-1959	Billie Holiday	Colin Escott for King of the Blues - BB King Orrin Keepnews and Jim Ferguson for The Complete Riverside Recordings - Wes Montgomery Peter Guralnick for From Nashville to Memphis: The Essential 60s Masters - Elvis Presley Alan Lomax and Robert Palmer for Songs of the South: A Musical Journey from the Georgia Sea Islands to the Mississippi Delta Recorded in the Field by Alan Lomax - various artists
1995		Dan Morgenstern and Loren Schoenberg	United States	Louis Armstrong: Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man, 1923-1934	Louis Armstrong	Yves Beauvais, Don Cherry , Ornette Coleman and Robert Palmer for Beauty Is A Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings - Ornette Coleman Francis Pandras, Celia Powell, Peter Pullman, Sonny Rollins and Horace Silver for The Complete Bud Powell on Verve - Bud Powell Carol Cooper, Steven Greenberg and Jaime Wolf for Otis! The Definitive - Otis Redding Peter Guralnick for Sam Cooke's SAR Records Story 1959–1965 - various artists
1996		Rob Bowman	Canada	The Complete Stax / Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 3: 1972-1975	different artists	Geoffrey Mark Fidelman and James Gavin for Ella: The Legendary Decca Recordings - Ella Fitzgerald John Fricke for 25th Anniversary: ​​Retrospective - Judy Garland Dan Morgenstern for I'll Be Seeing You: A Tribute to Carmen McRae - Carmen McRae Dan Morgenstern for Let's Do It: Best of the Verve Years - Louis Armstrong
1997		George Avakian , Bob Belden , Bill Kirchner and Phil Schaap	United States	Miles Davis & amp; Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings	Miles Davis and Gil Evans	Will Friedwald , Dave Kapp and Mel Tormé for The Mel Tormé Collection: 1944 - 1985 - Mel Tormé Lawrence Hoffman for Mean Old World: The Blues from 1940 to 1994 - various artists Will Friedwald for The Complete Capitol Singles Collection - Frank Sinatra Chris Albertson for The Complete Recordings, Vol. 5 - Bessie Smith
1998		John Fahey , Luis Kemnitzer, Jon Pankake, Chuck Pirtle, Jeff Place, Neil V. Rosenberg, Luc Sante, Peter Stampfel and Eric Von Schmidt	United States	Anthology of American Folk Music	different artists	Robert Gordon for Anthology - Al Green Ben Edmonds, Mark Kemp, Meegan Lee Ochs and Michael Ventura for Farewells & Fantasies - Phil Ochs Dave Alvin , James Austin, Bill Dahl, Ahmet Ertegün , David Ritz, Billy Vera and Jerry Wexler for Ray Charles Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection - Ray Charles Ian Whitcomb for Titanic: Music As Heard on the Fateful Voyage - various artists
1999		Bob Belden , Todd Coolman and Michael Cuscuna	United States	Miles Davis Quintet 1965–1968	Miles Davis Quintet	Joel Dorn , Tom Dowd , Andrew Homzy, Patrick Milligan, Sue Mingus, Tina Marisa Rocchio and Stefano Zenni for Passions of a Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956–1961 - Charles Mingus Daniel Cooper and Colin Escott for The Complete Hank Williams - Hank Williams Bill Ivey, Bill C. Malone, Claudia Perry, John W. Rumble and Ron Wynn for From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music - various artists Sedgwick Clark, Barbara Haws, Kurt Masur , Alan Rich, Robert Sherman and Steven Smolian for The Historic Broadcasts 1923 to 1987 - New York Philharmonic
2000		Bob Blumenthal		The Classic Quartet: The Complete Impulse! Recordings	John Coltrane	Rick Bragg for Live at The Grand Ole Opry - Hank Williams (Mercury Nashville) Rob Bowman for The Last Soul Company - various artists (Malaco) Daniel Cooper for The Complete Country & Western Recordings (1959–1986) - Ray Charles (Rhino) Marc Kirkeby for Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century - various artists (Sony)
2001		Bob Blumenthal		The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961	Miles Davis and John Coltrane	Jeff Place for The Best of Broadside 1962–1988: Anthems of the American Underground from the Pages of Broadside Magazine - various artists ( Smithsonian Folkways ) John Chilton for The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve - Lester Young (Verve) Bud Scoppa for Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat - Little Feat (Rhino) Dr. Demento for The Remains of Tom Lehrer - Tom Lehrer (Rhino) Gerald Early for Yes I Can! The Sammy Davis Jr. Story - Sammy Davis, Jr. (Warner Archives / Rhino)
2002		Walter Mosley	United States	... And It's Deep Too! The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (1968-1992)	Richard Pryor	Mari Evans for The Long Road Back To Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music - various artists (Buddha) Gerald Early for Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words from the Harlem Renaissance - various artists (Rhino) Rob Bowman for The Stax Story - various artists ( Stax )
		Elijah forest	United States	Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection: 1960–2000 The Journey of Chris Strachwitz	different artists
2003		David Evans	United States	Screamin 'and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton	Charlie Patton	Artie Shaw for Artie Shaw: Self Portrait - Artie Shaw (Bluebird / RCA) Dennis McNally for The Golden Road (1965–1973) - Grateful Dead (Rhino) Will Friedwald for Frank Sinatra in Hollywood 1940-1964 - Frank Sinatra (Reprise / Warner) Tim Page for A State of Wonder: The Complete Goldberg Variations 1955 & 1981 - Glenn Gould (Sony Classical)
2004		Tom Piazza		Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey	different artists	Loren Schoenberg for Count Basie and His Orchestra — America's # 1 Band! The Columbia Years - Count Basie and His Orchestra (Columbia / Legacy) Ashley Kahn for Four Women: The Nina Simone Philips Recordings - Nina Simone (Verve) Will Friedwald for Peggy Lee — The Singles Collection - Peggy Lee (Capitol / EMI) Daniel Wolff for Sam Cooke with The Soul Stirrers — The Complete Specialty Records Recordings - Sam Cooke with The Soul Stirrers (Specialty)
2005		Loren Schoenberg	United States	The Complete Columbia Recordings of Woody Herman and His Orchestra & Woodchoppers (1945-1947) -	Woody Herman and His Orchestra	Sean Wilentz for The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall - Bob Dylan (Columbia / Legacy) Barry Alfonso for Carry It On - Peter, Paul and Mary (Rhino) Paul Krassner for Let the Buyer Beware - Lenny Bruce (Shout! Factory) Chris Morris for No Thanks! The 70's Punk Rebellion - Various Artists (Rhino)
2006		Alan Lomax and John Szwed	United States	The Complete Library of Congress Recordings	Jelly Roll Morton	Adam White for Heaven Must Have Sent You: The Holland / Dozier / Holland Story - various artists (Hip-O) Patrick Carr for The Legend - Johnny Cash (Columbia / Legacy) David Ritz for Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952–1959) - Ray Charles (Atlantic / Rhino / Warner) Henry "Hank" Sapoznik for You Ain't Talkin 'to Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music - Charlie Poole and various artists (Columbia / Legacy)
2007		Dan Morgenstern	United States	If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It!	Fats Waller	Marshall Wyatt for Good for What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows, 1926–1937 - various artists (Old Hat) Tim Brooks for Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1891–1922 - various artists (Archeophone) David Ritz and Ben Edmonds for Pirate Radio - The Pretenders (Rhino / Warner / Sire) David Fricke for There Is a Season - The Byrds (Columbia / Legacy)
2008		Bruce Nemerov		John Work III: Recording Black Culture	different artists	Patrick Feaster and David Giovannoni for Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s - various artists (Archeophone) Loren Schoenberg for Classic Chu Berry Columbia and Victor Sessions - Chu Berry (Mosaic) David Sager for Off the Record: The Complete 1923 Jazz Band Recordings - King Olivers Creole Jazz Band (Off The Record) Ricky Jay for Ricky Jay Plays Poker - Various Artists (Octone / Legacy)
2009		Francis Davis		Kind of Blue : 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition	Miles Davis	Art Rosenbaum for Art of Field Recording Volume I: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum - various artists (Dust-to-Digital) Patrick Feaster and David Giovannoni for Debate '08: Taft and Bryan Campaign on the Edison Phonograph - William Jennings Bryan and William Howard Taft (Archeophone) David Ritz and Jerry Wexler for Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul - Aretha Franklin (Rhino / Atlantic) Henry "Hank" Sapoznik for The Unsung Father of Country Music: 1925–1934 - Ernest V. Stoneman (5-String)
2010		Dan Morgenstern	United States	The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946)	Louis Armstrong	Mark Berresford for Dance-O-Mania: Harry Yerkes and the Dawn of the Jazz Age, 1919–1923 - The Happy Six (Rivermont) Douglas Brinkley and Johnny Depp for Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson — Music from the Film - Various Artists (Legacy) Ed Cray and Bill Nowlin for My Dusty Road - Woody Guthrie ( Rounder ) Lloyd Ecker and Susan Ecker for Origins of the Red Hot Mama, 1910–1922 - Sophie Tucker (Archeophone)
2011		Robert Gordon	United States	Keep an Eye on the Sky	Big star	Gage Averill for Alan Lomax in Haiti: Recordings for the Library of Congress, 1936–1937 - various artists (Harte) Ashley Kahn for Side Steps - John Coltrane ( Prestige ) Doug Seroff for There Breathes a Hope: The Legacy of John Work II and His Fisk Jubilee Quartet, 1909–1916 - Fisk University Jubilee Quartet (Archeophone) Will Sheff for True Love Cast Out All Evil - Roky Erickson with Okkervil River ( Anti- )
2012		Adam Machado		Hear Me Howling !: Blues, Ballads & Beyond as Recorded by the San Francisco Bay by Chris Strachwitz in the 1960s	different artists	Neil Diamond for The Bang Years 1966-1968 - Neil Diamond (Columbia) Ted Olson and Tony Russell for The Bristol Sessions 1927–1928: The Big Bang of Country Music - various artists ( Bear Family ) Ken Shipley for Complete Mythology - Syl Johnson (Numero) Alec Palao for The Music City Story: Street Corner Doo Wop, Raw R&B and Soulful Sounds From Berkeley , California 1950–75 - various artists (Ace)
2013		Billy Vera	United States	Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles	Ray Charles	Stephen Wade for Banjo Diary: Lessons From Tradition - Stephen Wade (Smithsonian Folkways) Hans Olof Gottfridsson for First Recordings: 50th Anniversary Edition - The Beatles and Tony Sheridan (Time Life) Holly George-Warren for The Pearl Sessions - Janis Joplin (Sony Legacy) Fernando Gonzalez for Piazzolla in Brooklyn - Pablo Aslan Quintet (Soundbrush)
2014		Neil Tesser	United States	Afro Blue Impressions (Remastered and Expanded)	John Coltrane	Ben Young for Call it Art 1964–1965 - New York Art Quartet (Triple Point) Alec Palao for Electric Music for the Mind and Body - Country Joe & the Fish (Ace / Vanguard ) Jonathan Cott for Stravinsky : Le sacre du printemps - Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (Sony Classical) Sean Wilentz for 360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story - various artists ( Columbia ) Nathan Salsburg for Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music 1923–1936 - various artists (Tompkins Square)
2015		Ashley Kahn	United States	Offering: Live at Temple University	John Coltrane	David Sager for Happy: The 1920 Rainbo Orchestra Sides - Isham Jones Rainbo Orchestra (Archeophone) Alec Palao for I'm Just Like You: Sly's Stone Flower 1969-70 - various artists (Light In The Attic) Scott B. Bomar for The Other Side of Bakersfield: 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West' - various artists ( Bear Family ) Jon Kirby for Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound - various artists (Numero) Scott Blackwood for The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records , Volume One (1917-27) - various artists (Third Man / Revenant )
2016		Joni Mitchell	Canada	Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced	Joni Mitchell	James P. Leary for Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946 - various artists (Dust-to-Digital / University of Wisconsin Press) Jeff Place for Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection - Lead Belly (Smithsonian Folkways) Ted Olson for Portrait of an American Singer - Tennessee Ernie Ford ( Bear Family ) Ryan Barna for Songs of the Night: Dance Recordings, 1916–1925 - Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra (Archeophone)
2017		Ken Bloom and Richard Carlin	United States	Sissle and Blake Sing Shuffle Along	Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle	Mikal Gilmore for The Complete Monument & Columbia Albums Collection - Kris Kristofferson (Legacy) Ted Olson & Tony Russell for The Knoxville Sessions, 1929–1930: Knox County Stomp - various artists ( Bear Family ) Rob Sevier & Ken Shipley for Ork Records: New York, New York - various artists (Numero) Richard Martin for Waxing the Gospel: Mass Evangelism and the Phonograph, 1890–1900 - various artists (Archeophone)
2018		Lynell George		Live at the Whiskey A Go Go : The Complete Recordings	Otis Redding	Wayne Bledsoe & Bradley Reeves for Arthur Q. Smith: The Trouble With the Truth - various artists ( Bear Family ) Ted Olson for Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition - various artists (Great Smoky Mountains Association) Bryan S. Wright for The Complete Piano Works of Scott Joplin - Richard Dowling (Rivermont) David Giovannoni for Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville , Inventor of Sound Recording: A Bicentennial Tribute - various artists (Archeophone) Michael Corcoran for Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams - Washington Phillips (Dust-to-Digital)
2019		David Evans		Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris	different artists	James P. Leary for Alpine Dreaming: The Helvetia Records Story, 1920-1924 - various artists (Archeophone) Richard Martin & Ted Olson for 4 Banjo Songs, 1891-1897: Foundational Recordings of America's Iconic Instrument - Charles A. Asbury (Archeophone) Ben Ratliff for The 1960 Time Sessions - Sonny Clark Trio (Tompkins Square) David Gilbert for The Product of Our Souls: The Sound and Sway of James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra - various artists (Archeophone) Amanda Petrusich for Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979-1981 (Deluxe Edition) - Bob Dylan (Columbia / Legacy)
2020		Steve Greenberg (album text)		Stax '68: A Memphis Story	different artists	The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions by Judy Cantor-Navas, album text (various artists) The Gospel According to Malaco by Robert Marovich, album text (various artists) Pedal Steel + Four Corners by Brendan Greaves, album text (Terry Allen And The Panhandle Mystery Band) Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection by Jeff Place, album text ( Pete Seeger )

Web links

• Official website of the Grammy Awards - Recording Academy, Los Angeles (English)
• Winner of the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes (English) at grammy.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Grammy Awards. Accessed August 8, 2019 . 
2. ^ The Official Site of the Grammy Awards - Overview. Accessed August 8, 2019 . 
3. ↑ GRAMMY Awards Winners for Best Album Notes. Accessed August 8, 2019 .