Best Original Jazz Composition

5th Annual Grammy Awards • 1963

Honoring recordings released between December 1, 1961 – November 30, 1962

Vince Guaraldi Trio won the 1963 Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition with "Cast Your Fate To The Wind"

Winners & Nominees 1963

Winner
Nominees
  • Vince Guaraldi

    Cast Your Fate To The Wind

    Vince Guaraldi

  • Paul Desmond

    Desmond Blue

    Paul Desmond

  • Focus (Single)

    Eddie Sauter

  • Quincy Jones

    Quintessence

    Quincy Jones

  • Henry Mancini

    The Sounds Of Hatari

    Henry Mancini

  • Charles Mingus

    Tijuana Moods (Single)

    Charles Mingus

  • Lalo Schifrin

    Tunisian Fantasy

    Lalo Schifrin

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