The 38th Grammy Awards were held in 1996. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year.

Alternative

Blues

Children's

Classical

Composing and arranging

Country

Folk

  • Best Traditional Folk Album
    • Ramblin' Jack Elliott for South Coast
  • Best Contemporary Folk Album
Gospel

  • Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
  • Best Rock Gospel Album
    • Ashley Cleveland for Lesson of Love
  • Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album
    • Bill Hearn (producer) for Amazing Grace - A Country Salute to Gospel performed by various artists
  • Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album
    • Shirley Caesar for Shirley Caesar Live - He Will Come
  • Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
    • CeCe Winans for Alone In His Presence
  • Best Gospel Album by a Choir or Chorus
    • Carol Cymbala (choir director) for Praise Him - Live! performed by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir

Historical

  • Best Historical Album
    • John Pfeiffer (producer), J.J. Stelmach (art director), Anthony Salvatore, David Satz, James P. Nichols, Jon M. Samuels, Ray Hall, Thomas MacCluskey (engineers), Brooks Smith, Erick Friedman, Gabriel Banat, George Jellinek, Grant Beglarian, Harris Goldsmith, Irving Kolodin, Jacob Lateiner, John Anthony Maltese, John Maltese, John Pfeiffer, Josefa Heifetz, Laurence Lesser, Leonard Pennario, Mortimer W. Frank, Myra C. Livingston, Richard Freed & Robert Cowan (notes writers) for The Heifetz Collection performed by Jascha Heifetz & various artists

Jazz

  • Best Jazz Vocal Performance
  • Best Contemporary Jazz Performance
    • Pat Metheny Group for "We Live Here"
  • Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
    • Michael Brecker for "Impressions"
  • Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group
    • McCoy Tyner Trio & Michael Brecker for Infinity
  • Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance
    • Tom Scott for "All Blues" performed by the GRP All-Star Big Band
  • Best Latin Jazz Performance
    • Jobim for Antonio Brasileiro

Latin

  • Best Latin Pop Performance
    • Jon Secada for Amor
  • Best Tropical Latin Performance
  • Best Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance
    • Flaco Jimenez for Flaco Jimenez

Musical Show

  • Best Musical Show Album
    • Arif Mardin, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller (producers) & the original Broadway cast for Smokey Joe's Cafe - The Songs of Leiber & Stoller

Music Video

New Age

  • Best New Age Album
    • George Winston for Forest

Packaging and Notes

  • Best Recording Package
    • Joni Mitchell & Robbie Cavolina (art directors) for Turbulent Indigo performed by Joni Mitchell
  • Best Recording Package - Boxed
    • Frank Zappa & Gail Zappa (art directors) for Civilization Phaze III performed by Frank Zappa
  • Best Album Notes
    • Rob Bowman (notes writer) for The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 3: 1972 - 1975 performed by various artists

Polka

Pop

Production and engineering

  • Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
    • David Bianco, Jim Scott, Richard Dodd & Stephen McLaughlin (engineers) for Wildflowers performed by Tom Petty
  • Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
    • Babyface
  • Best Classical Engineered Recording
  • Classical Producer of the Year
    • Steven Epstein

R&B

Rap

Reggae

Rock

Spoken

Trad Pop

  • Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance
World

  • Best World Music Album
    • Deep Forest for Boheme


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