Best Original Jazz Composition

6th Annual Grammy Awards • 1964

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1962 and Aug 30, 1963

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

Winners & Nominees 1964

Winner
Nominees
  • Steve Allen Ray Brown

    Gravy Waltz

    Steve Allen, Ray Brown

  • Charles Mingus

    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

  • Paul Desmond

    Take Ten

    Paul Desmond

Previous Winners

Year Winner Work
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