Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

E189581

Grammy Award category music award

The Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album is a prestigious music industry honor recognizing outstanding recordings by big band and large jazz ensembles.

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All labels observed (8)

Label	Occurrences
Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album canonical	22
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band	3
Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance	3
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance (Big Band)	1
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band	1
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Grammy	1
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band and Jazz Orchestra	1
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1675370 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Context triple: [Miles Davis, awardReceived, Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album]

A. Grammy Award for Best Classical Album
The Grammy Award for Best Classical Album is a former Grammy category that honored outstanding overall classical recordings, recognizing artistic excellence across complete albums rather than individual performances or engineering.
B. Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance is a prestigious classical music honor presented to recognize outstanding recordings by orchestras and their conductors.
C. Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance was a classical music Grammy category that honored outstanding recordings by small ensembles, typically featuring one performer per part.
D. Grammy Award for Best World Music Album
The Grammy Award for Best World Music Album is a prestigious music industry honor recognizing outstanding albums that showcase traditional, contemporary, or cross-cultural sounds from around the globe.
E. Grammy Award for Album of the Year
The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is one of the most prestigious honors in the music industry, recognizing the overall artistic achievement and production excellence of a full album across all genres.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Target entity description: The Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album is a prestigious music industry honor recognizing outstanding recordings by big band and large jazz ensembles.

A. Grammy Award for Best Classical Album
The Grammy Award for Best Classical Album is a former Grammy category that honored outstanding overall classical recordings, recognizing artistic excellence across complete albums rather than individual performances or engineering.
B. Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance is a prestigious classical music honor presented to recognize outstanding recordings by orchestras and their conductors.
C. Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance was a classical music Grammy category that honored outstanding recordings by small ensembles, typically featuring one performer per part.
D. Grammy Award for Best World Music Album
The Grammy Award for Best World Music Album is a prestigious music industry honor recognizing outstanding albums that showcase traditional, contemporary, or cross-cultural sounds from around the globe.
E. Grammy Award for Album of the Year
The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is one of the most prestigious honors in the music industry, recognizing the overall artistic achievement and production excellence of a full album across all genres.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (39)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Grammy Award category ⓘ music award ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Grammy ⓘ linked to: Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
awardCategoryOf	Grammy Awards ⓘ linked to: Grammy Award
awardedForPeriod	previous eligibility year ⓘ
awardFor	big band jazz recordings ⓘ large jazz ensemble albums ⓘ
categoryType	genre-specific award ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
domain	recorded music industry ⓘ
eligibility	commercially released recordings ⓘ recordings meeting Grammy eligibility rules ⓘ
field	jazz ⓘ
formerName	Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band ⓘ linked to: Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band and Jazz Orchestra ⓘ linked to: Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
frequency	annual ⓘ
genre	jazz ⓘ
givenFor	outstanding large jazz ensemble albums ⓘ
hasLanguage	English ⓘ
hasMedium	audio recording ⓘ
hasSubgenreFocus	big band jazz ⓘ contemporary large ensemble jazz ⓘ
inception	1979 ⓘ
isPartOfSeries	Grammy jazz categories ⓘ
locationOfCeremony	various cities in the United States ⓘ
notableRecipient	Bob Mintzer ⓘ Count Basie Orchestra ⓘ Duke Ellington ⓘ Gordon Goodwin ⓘ Maria Schneider ⓘ Vince Mendoza ⓘ
organizer	National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences ⓘ linked to: Recording Academy
partOf	Grammy Awards ⓘ linked to: Grammy Award
presentedBy	The Recording Academy ⓘ linked to: Recording Academy
recordingType	albums ⓘ
selectionProcess	voting by members of The Recording Academy ⓘ
status	active ⓘ
typicalEnsembleSize	large jazz ensemble ⓘ
typicalEnsembleType	big band ⓘ

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Referenced by (33)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Miles Davis → awardReceived → Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album ⓘ

Terence Blanchard → awardReceived → Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album ⓘ

Count Basie Orchestra → notableAward → Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band ⓘ