Best Jazz Composition Of More Than Five Minutes Duration

3rd Annual Grammy Awards • 1961

Honoring recordings released between September 1, 1959 – November 30, 1960

Gil Evans And Miles Davis won the 1961 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Composition Of More Than Five Minutes Duration with "Sketches Of Spain"

Winners & Nominees 1961

Winner
Nominees
  • Miles Davis Gil Evans

    Sketches Of Spain

    Miles Davis, Gil Evans

  • Dave Brubeck

    Blue Rondo A La Turk

    Dave Brubeck

  • Blues Suite

    Robert E. Brookmeyer

  • Idiom '59

    Duke Ellington

  • Maynard Ferguson

    Newport Suite (Single)

    Maynard Ferguson

  • Sketch

    John Lewis

  • Western Suite

    Jimmy Giuffre

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
1961 Miles Davis, Gil Evans Sketches Of Spain All Nominees