Best Original Jazz Composition

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 Original Jazz Composition 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
1967 Duke Ellington In The Beginning God All Nominees
1966 Lalo Schifrin Jazz Suite On The Mass Texts All Nominees
1965 Lalo Schifrin The Cat All Nominees
1964 Steve Allen, Ray Brown Gravy Waltz All Nominees
1963 Vince Guaraldi Cast Your Fate To The Wind All Nominees
1962 Galt MacDermott African Waltz All Nominees
1961 Miles Davis, Gil Evans Sketches Of Spain All Nominees