Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group
21st Annual Grammy Awards • 1979
Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1977 – September 30, 1978
Chick Corea won the 1979 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group with "Friends"
Winners & Nominees 1979
Winner
Nominees
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Friends
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Heavy Love (Album)
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Rosewood (Album)
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Song For Sisyphus
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The Peacocks (Album)
Previous Years
| Year | Winner | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Oscar Peterson | Saturday Night At The Blue Note | All Nominees |
| 1991 | Oscar Peterson | The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live At The Blue Note | All Nominees |
| 1990 | Chick Corea | Chick Corea Akoustic Band | All Nominees |
| 1989 | David Murray, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Cecil McBee, Roy Haynes | Blues For Coltrane - A Tribute To John Coltrane | All Nominees |
| 1988 | Wynton Marsalis | Marsalis Standard Time - Volume I | All Nominees |
| 1987 | Wynton Marsalis | J Mood | All Nominees |
| 1986 | Wynton Marsalis | Black Codes From The Underground | All Nominees |
| 1985 | Art Blakey | New York Scene | All Nominees |
| 1984 | Phil Woods | At The Vanguard | All Nominees |
| 1983 | Phil Woods | "More" Live | All Nominees |
| 1982 | Gary Burton, Chick Corea | Chick Corea & Gary Burton In Concert - Zurich, October 28, 1979 | All Nominees |
| 1981 | Bill Evans | We Will Meet Again | All Nominees |
| 1980 | Chick Corea, Gary Burton | Duet | All Nominees |
| 1979 | Chick Corea | Friends | All Nominees |