Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance

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Grammy Award category

The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance was a former Grammy category that honored outstanding recorded jazz performances by instrumentalists or ensembles.

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All labels observed (23)

Label	Occurrences
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance	6
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance canonical	5
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group	5
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist	5
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group	4
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance	3
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance (Orchestra)	1
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group or Soloist with Group	1
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group	1
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group (Instrumental)	1
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Small Group or Soloist with Small Group	1
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Performance	1
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Performance, Instrumental	1
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Group	1
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group	1
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Large Group or Soloist with Large Group	1
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band	1
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group or Soloist	1
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group or Soloist with Group	1
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist (On a Jazz Recording)	1
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo	1
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance	1
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7161774 — 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 Instrumental Jazz Performance
Context triple: [Wes Montgomery, awardReceived, Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance]

A. Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album
The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album is a prestigious music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in jazz instrumental album recordings.
B. Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
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.
C. Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Group
The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Group was a former Grammy category recognizing outstanding jazz recordings by ensembles.
D. Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album
The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album is a prestigious music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding vocal jazz recordings.
E. Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female
The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female was a former Grammy category that honored outstanding solo jazz vocal performances by female artists.
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 Instrumental Jazz Performance
Target entity description: The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance was a former Grammy category that honored outstanding recorded jazz performances by instrumentalists or ensembles.

A. Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album
The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album is a prestigious music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in jazz instrumental album recordings.
B. Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
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.
C. Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Group
The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Group was a former Grammy category recognizing outstanding jazz recordings by ensembles.
D. Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album
The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album is a prestigious music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding vocal jazz recordings.
E. Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female
The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female was a former Grammy category that honored outstanding solo jazz vocal performances by female artists.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (24)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Grammy Award category ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance ⓘ linked to: Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group ⓘ linked to: Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group or Soloist ⓘ linked to: Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Group ⓘ
awardFor	instrumental jazz performance ⓘ recorded jazz performance ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
endTime	1990 ⓘ
field	jazz ⓘ
genre	jazz ⓘ
hasSubcategory	Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band ⓘ linked to: Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group ⓘ linked to: Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist ⓘ linked to: Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance
inception	1959 ⓘ
partOf	Grammy Awards ⓘ linked to: Grammy Award
presentedAt	annual Grammy Awards ceremony ⓘ
presentedBy	National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences ⓘ linked to: Recording Academy
selectionCriteria	artistic achievement ⓘ overall excellence in the recording industry ⓘ technical proficiency ⓘ
status	discontinued award ⓘ
typicalRecipient	jazz ensemble ⓘ jazz instrumentalist ⓘ

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