Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album
The Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works in the Latin jazz music genre. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".
Two-time award winner Arturo Sandoval, performing in 2008
1998 award winner Roy Hargrove, performing at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam in 2006
Five-time award winner Chucho Valdés in 2007
Three-time winner, Paquito D'Rivera
Latin jazz is a genre of jazz with Latin American rhythms. The two main categories are Afro-Cuban jazz, rhythmically based on Cuban popular dance music, with a rhythm section employing ostinato patterns or a clave, and Afro-Brazilian jazz, which includes samba and bossa nova.
Jelly Roll Morton
Machito and his sister Graciela
"Tanga" in the style of Machito and His Afro‐Cubans (recorded 1949). 2‐3 clave, piano: René Hernández.
Dizzy Gillespie, 1955