Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band

23rd Annual Grammy Awards • 1981

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1979 – September 30, 1980

Count Basie won the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band with "On The Road"

Winners & Nominees 1981

Winner
Nominees

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
1991 Frank Foster Basie's Bag All Nominees
1990 Miles Davis Aura All Nominees
1989 Gil Evans Bud & Bird All Nominees
1988 Mercer Ellington Digital Duke All Nominees
1987 Doc Severinsen The Tonight Show Band With Doc Severinsen All Nominees
1986 John Barry, Bob Wilber The Cotton Club - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack All Nominees
1985 Count Basie 88 Basie Street All Nominees
1984 Rob McConnell All In Good Time All Nominees
1983 Count Basie Warm Breeze All Nominees
1982 Gerry Mulligan Walk On The Water All Nominees
1981 Count Basie On The Road All Nominees
1980 Duke Ellington Duke Ellington At Fargo, 1940 Live All Nominees
1979 Thad Jones, Mel Lewis Live In Munich All Nominees
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