Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female:Giving You
the Best That I Got, Anita Baker
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male: “Every Little
Step,” Bobby Brown
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Back To Life,” Soul II Soul featuring
Caron Wheeler
Best R&B Song: “If You Don’t Know Me by Now,”
Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff (songwriters)
and Simply Red (artist)
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female:Absolute
Torch and Twang, k. d. lang
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male:Lyle Lovett
and His Large Band, Lyle Lovett
Best Country Vocal Performance, Duo or Group:
Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume II, Nitty Gritty
Dirt Band
Best Country Vocal Collaboration: “There’s a Tear
in My Beer,” Hank Williams, Jr., and Hank
Williams, Sr.
Best Country Song: “After All This Time,” Rodney
Crowell (songwriter and artist)
Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Instrumental or
Vocal:Letter from Home, Pat Metheny Group
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:Blues on
Broadway, Ruth Brown
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male:When Harr y
Met Sally, Harry Connick, Jr.
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group:
“Makin’ Whoopee,” Dr. John and Rickie Lee
Jones
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist:Aura,
Miles Davis
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group:Chick
Corea Akoustic Band, Chick Corea Akoustic Band
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band:
Aura, Miles Davis
Best Music Video, Short Form: “Leave Me Alone,”
Michael Jackson*, Jim Blashfield (director),
Frank DiLeo, Jerry Kramer, Jim Blashfield, and
Paul Diener (producers), Michael Jackson*
(artist)
Best Music Video, Long Form:Rhythm Nation 1814,
Dominic Sena, Jonathan Dayton, and Valerie
Faris (directors), Aris McGarry, Jonathan
Dayton, and Valerie Faris (producers), Janet
Jackson (artist)1136 Music: Grammy Awards The Eighties in America