Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album

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music award

The Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album is a prestigious music industry honor recognizing outstanding recordings that blend jazz improvisation with Latin American rhythms and instrumentation.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album canonical	12
Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Performance	3
Best Latin Jazz Album (Vocal or Instrumental) (historical naming)	1
Best Latin Jazz Album, Vocal or Instrumental	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9832406 — 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 Latin Jazz Album
Context triple: [Sammy Figueroa, awardNomination, Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album]

A. 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.
B. 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.
C. Grammy Award for Best Latin Urban Album
The Grammy Award for Best Latin Urban Album is a music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding albums in the Latin urban genre, including reggaeton, Latin trap, and related styles.
D. Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year
The Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year is one of the most prestigious honors in Latin music, recognizing the overall artistic and technical excellence of a full-length recording across all genres.
E. Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album
The Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album is an annual accolade presented by the Latin Recording Academy to honor outstanding salsa music albums.
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 Latin Jazz Album
Target entity description: The Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album is a prestigious music industry honor recognizing outstanding recordings that blend jazz improvisation with Latin American rhythms and instrumentation.

A. 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.
B. 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.
C. Grammy Award for Best Latin Urban Album
The Grammy Award for Best Latin Urban Album is a music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding albums in the Latin urban genre, including reggaeton, Latin trap, and related styles.
D. Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year
The Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year is one of the most prestigious honors in Latin music, recognizing the overall artistic and technical excellence of a full-length recording across all genres.
E. Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album
The Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album is an annual accolade presented by the Latin Recording Academy to honor outstanding salsa music albums.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (39)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	music award ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Best Latin Jazz Album, Vocal or Instrumental ⓘ linked to: Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album Best Latin Jazz Performance ⓘ Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album ⓘ
awardedFor	albums, not singles ⓘ
awardedIn	United States music industry ⓘ
awardFor	Latin jazz recordings ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
criteria	artistic achievement in Latin jazz ⓘ overall excellence in Latin jazz album production ⓘ technical proficiency in Latin jazz recording ⓘ
field	Latin music ⓘ jazz ⓘ
firstAwarded	1995 ⓘ
frequency	annually ⓘ
genre	Latin jazz ⓘ
hasSubcategory	Best Latin Jazz Album (Vocal or Instrumental) (historical naming) ⓘ linked to: Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album
inception	1995 ⓘ
includesElement	Latin American instrumentation ⓘ Latin American rhythms ⓘ jazz improvisation ⓘ
language	primarily instrumental but may include vocals in any language ⓘ
mediaType	audio recording ⓘ
notableWinner	Arturo Sandoval ⓘ Charlie Haden ⓘ Chucho Valdés ⓘ Gonzalo Rubalcaba ⓘ Paquito D’Rivera ⓘ Poncho Sanchez ⓘ Spanish Harlem Orchestra ⓘ
officialWebsite	https://www.grammy.com ⓘ
organizer	National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences ⓘ linked to: Recording Academy
partOf	Grammy Awards ⓘ linked to: Grammy Award
presentedAt	annual Grammy Awards ceremony ⓘ
presentedBy	The Recording Academy ⓘ linked to: Recording Academy
recognizes	fusion of jazz and Latin musical traditions ⓘ
reward	Grammy statuette ⓘ linked to: Grammy Award statuette
selectionProcess	voted on by members of The Recording Academy ⓘ
status	active ⓘ

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Referenced by (17)

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

Sammy Figueroa → awardNomination → Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album ⓘ

Brian Lynch → notableAward → Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album ⓘ

Bobby Sanabria → awardNomination → Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album ⓘ

Roy Hargrove → awardReceived → Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Performance ⓘ