Best Jazz Performance

38th Annual Grammy Awards • 1996

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1994 and Aug 30, 1995

Michael Brecker won the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance with "Impressions"

Winners & Nominees 1996

Winner

Nominees

Impressions

Michael Brecker
But Beautiful (Track)

Pete Christlieb
Go Down Moses (Track)

Charlie Haden, Hank Jones

Take The Coltrane (Track)

Kenny Barron
The Way You Look Tonight (Track)

Eliane Elias, Herbie Hancock

Previous Winners

Year	Winner	Work
2026	Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Brian Blade	Windows - Live	All Nominees
2025	Samara Joy, Sullivan Fortner	Twinkle Twinkle Little Me	All Nominees
2024	Samara Joy	Tight	All Nominees
2023	Wayne Shorter, Wayne Shorter & Leo Genovese, Leo Genovese	Endangered Species	All Nominees
2022	Chick Corea	Humpty Dumpty (Set 2)	All Nominees
2021	Chick Corea	All Blues	All Nominees
2020	Randy Brecker	Sozinho	All Nominees
2019	John Daversa	Don't Fence Me In	All Nominees
2018	John McLaughlin	Miles Beyond	All Nominees
2017	John Scofield	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry	All Nominees
2016	Christian McBride	Cherokee	All Nominees
2015	Chick Corea	Fingerprints	All Nominees
2014	Wayne Shorter	Orbits	All Nominees
2013	Gary Burton, Chick Corea	Hot House	All Nominees
2012	Chick Corea	500 Miles High	All Nominees
2011	Herbie Hancock	A Change Is Gonna Come	All Nominees
2010	Terence Blanchard	Dancin' 4 Chicken	All Nominees
2009	Terence Blanchard	Be-Bop	All Nominees
2008	Michael Brecker	Anagram	All Nominees
2007	Michael Brecker	Some Skunk Funk	All Nominees
2006	Sonny Rollins	Why Was I Born?	All Nominees
2005	Herbie Hancock	Speak Like A Child	All Nominees
2004	Chick Corea	Matrix	All Nominees
2003	Herbie Hancock	My Ship	All Nominees
2002	Michael Brecker	Chan's Song	All Nominees
2001	Pat Metheny	(Go) Get It	All Nominees
2000	Wayne Shorter	In Walked Wayne	All Nominees
1999	Gary Burton, Chick Corea	Rhumbata	All Nominees
1998	Doc Cheatham, Nicholas Payton	Stardust	All Nominees
1997	Michael Brecker	Cabin Fever	All Nominees
1996	Michael Brecker	Impressions	All Nominees
1995	Benny Carter	Prelude To A Kiss	All Nominees
1994	Joe Henderson	Miles Ahead	All Nominees
1993	Joe Henderson	Lush Life	All Nominees
1992	Stan Getz	I Remember You	All Nominees
1991	Oscar Peterson	The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live At The Blue Note	All Nominees
1990	Miles Davis	Aura	All Nominees
1989	Michael Brecker	Don't Try This At Home	All Nominees
1988	Dexter Gordon	The Other Side Of Round Midnight	All Nominees
1987	Miles Davis	Tutu	All Nominees
1986	Wynton Marsalis	Black Codes From The Underground	All Nominees
1985	Wynton Marsalis	Hot House Flowers	All Nominees
1984	Wynton Marsalis	Think Of One	All Nominees
1983	Miles Davis	We Want Miles	All Nominees
1982	John Coltrane	Bye Bye Blackbird	All Nominees
1981	Bill Evans	I Will Say Goodbye	All Nominees
1980	Oscar Peterson	Jousts	All Nominees
1979	Oscar Peterson	Montreaux '77 - Oscar Peterson Jam	All Nominees
1978	Oscar Peterson	The Giants	All Nominees
1977	Count Basie	Basie And Zoot	All Nominees
1976	Dizzy Gillespie	Oscar Peterson And Dizzy Gillespie	All Nominees
1975	Charlie Parker	First Recordings!	All Nominees
1974	Art Tatum	God Is In The House	All Nominees
1973	Gary Burton	Alone At Last	All Nominees