Latin Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Album
The Latin Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Album is an honor presented annually at the Latin Grammy Awards, a ceremony that recognizes excellence and creates a wider awareness of cultural diversity and contributions of Latin recording artists in the United States and internationally. The award goes to solo artists, duos or groups, producer(s), recording engineer(s) and mixing engineer(s) of 51% or more of the total playing time of the album.
Mexican guitarist Carlos Santana won the peer category Best Pop Instrumental Performance for this award in 2000.
Jazz flautist Néstor Torres was the first winner of the award under the name Best Pop Instrumental Album.
Yo-Yo Ma, 2004 winner, the first recipient of this award under its current denomination.
Two-time winners Bajofondo.
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea was an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", "500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba" and "Windows" are widely considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis's band in the late 1960s, he participated in the birth of jazz fusion. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever. Along with McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett, Corea is considered to have been one of the foremost pianists of the post-John Coltrane era.
Corea in 2019
Corea in 1976
Corea with Al Di Meola and Return to Forever in Rochester, New York, 1976
Bobby McFerrin and Corea, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2008