Best Original Jazz Composition

6th Annual Grammy Awards • 1964

Honoring recordings released between December 1, 1962 – November 30, 1963

Steve Allen won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition with "Gravy Waltz"

Winners & Nominees 1964

Winner

Nominees

Gravy Waltz

Steve Allen, Ray Brown
Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (Single)

Charles Mingus
East Side - West Side

Kenyon Hopkins
Little Bird (Single)

Dick Grove, Pete Jolly, Tommy Wolf
Meditation (Single)

Antonio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonco
Take Ten

Paul Desmond

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