The 44th Grammy Awards were held in 2002. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year.

Special Merit Awards

Alternative

Blues

  • Best Traditional Blues Album
    • John P. Hampton, Jared Tuten (engineers) & Jimmie Vaughan (producer & artist) for Do You Get the Blues?
  • Best Contemporary Blues Album
    • Delbert McClinton, Gary Nicholson (producers), Richard Dodd, Don Smith (engineers) & Delbert McClinton for Nothing Personal

Children's

Classical

Composing and arranging

Country

Film/TV/Media

Folk

  • Best Traditional Folk Album incl. Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording/Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording
    • Mike Piersante (engineer) for Down from the Mountain performed by various artists
  • Best Contemporary Folk Album incl. Best Ethnic or Contemporary Folk Recording
  • Best Native American Music Album
    • Jack Miller (engineer), Giuli Doyle & Robert Doyle (producers) for Bless the People - Harmonized Peyote Songs performed by Verdell Primeaux & Johnny Mike

Gospel

  • Best Rock Gospel Album incl. Best Rock/Contemporary Gospel Album
  • Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
    • Steve Bishir (engineer) & Brown Bannister (producer) for CeCe Winans performed by CeCe Winans
  • Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album
    • Chad Evans (engineer) & Bill Gaither (producer) for Bill & Gloria Gaither Present a Billy Graham Music Homecoming performed by Bill & Gloria Gaither & the Homecoming Friends
  • Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album
    • Jimmy Hoyson, Larry Hirsch (engineers) & John Chelew (producer) for Spirit of the Century performed by the Blind Boys of Alabama
  • Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
    • Benjamin J. Arrindell, Biff Dawes & Derek Lewis (engineers) for The Experience performed by Yolanda Adams
  • Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album
    • John Jaszcz (engineer) for Love Is Live! performed by Hezekiah Walter & the LFT Church Choir

Historical

  • Best Historical Album
    • Ken Robertson, Mark Wilder, Matt Cavaluzzo & Seth Foster (engineers) for Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933-1944

Jazz

  • Best Contemporary Jazz Performance, Instrumental - Also cont. Jazz Performance Vocal or Instrumental
  • Best Jazz Vocal Album
    • Erik Zobler (engineer) & George M. Duke (producer) for The Calling performed by Dianne Reeves
  • Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist
    • Michael Brecker for "Chan's Song"
  • Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group
  • Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance
    • Tom Jung (engineer), Bob Mintzer & Tom Jung (producers) for Home to Count Basie performed by the Bob Mintzer Big Band
  • Best Latin Jazz Performance
    • Jay Newland (engineer), Charlie Haden & Gonzalo Rubalcaba (producers) for Nocturne performed by Charlie Haden

Latin

  • Best Latin Pop Performance
    • Joe Reyes, Michael Morales,Ronald Morales (engineers & producers) for La Musica de Baldemar Huerta performed by Freddy Fender
  • Best Tropical Latin Performance
    • Sebastian Krys (producer) for Dejame Entrar performed by Carlos Vives
  • Best Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance
    • Freddie Martinez, Jr, (engineer and producer), Greg Garcia (engineer) & Ramón Ayala (producer) for En Vivo...El Hombre y Su Musica performed by Ramón Ayala y Sus Bravos Del Norte
  • Best Latin Rock/Alternative Performance
    • Ozomatli for Embrace the Chaos
  • Best Tejano Music Performance
    • Ramiro Serna, Jr (engineer), Amado Garza, Jr, Ben De León, Medardo Garza, Otoniel Peña Jr & Rolando Benavidez (producers) for Nadie Como Tu performed by [Solido]]
  • Best Salsa Performance
    • Gustavo Celis, Ricky Blanco (engineers) & Robert Blades (producer) for Encore performed by Robert Blades
  • Best Merengue Performance
    • Eric Schilling (engineer) & Olga Tañon (producer) for Yo Por Tí performed by Olga Tañón

Musical Show

Music Video

  • Best Music Video, Short Form
  • Best Music Video, Long Form
    • Susan Froemke (director & producer) & Peter Gelb (producer) for Recording the Producers - A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks performed by Mel Brooks (and others)

New Age

  • Best New Age Album
    • Nicky Ryan (engineer & producer) for A Day Without Rain performed by Enya

Packaging and Notes

  • Best Album Package - Incl. Album Cover, Graphic Arts, Photography
  • Best Recording Package - Boxed
    • Steve Vance (art director) for Brain in a Box - The Science Fiction Collection performed by Various Artists
  • Best Album Notes
    • Elijah Wald (notes writer) for Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection: 1960-2000 the Journey of Chris Strachwitz performed by various artists
    • Walter Mosley (notes writer) for Richard Pryor...And It's Deep Too! The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (1968-1992)

Polka

  • Best Polka Album
    • Jim Uzwack (engineer), Jimmy Sturr, Kenneth R. Irwin & Tom Pick (engineers & producers) for Gone Polka performed by Jimmy Sturr

Pop

Production and engineering

  • Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
    • Al Schmitt (engineer) for The Look of Love performed by Diana Krall
  • Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
  • Best Classical Engineered Recording
    • Joshua Bell for Bernstein (Arr. Brohn & Corigliano): West Side Story Suite (Lonely Town; Make Our Garden Grow, Etc.)
  • Classical Producer of the Year
    • Manfred Eicher
  • Best Remixed Recording , Non-Classical
    • Deep Dish (remixer) for "Thank You" (Deep Dish Vocal Remix) performed by
(Dido)

R&B

Rap

Reggae

  • Best Reggae Album
    • Arlick Thompson (engineer) & Stephen Marley (producer) for Halfway Tree performed by Damian Marley

Rock

Spoken

  • Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album
    • Jeffrey S. Thomas, Steven Strassman (engineers) & Elisa Shokoff (producer) for Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
  • Best Spoken Comedy Album
    • John Runnette (producer) for Napalm & Sillyputty performed by George Carlin

Trad Pop

  • Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance
    • Gregg Rubin (engineer) & Tracey Freeman (producer) for Songs I Heard performed by Harry Connick Jr

World

  • Best World Music Album
    • Tom Lazarus (engineer) & Hans Wendl (producer) for Full Circle/Carnegie Hall 2000 performed by Ravi Shankar


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