Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album received by Terri Lyne Carrington: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black and gold Grammy Award trophy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album of 2013, awarded to Terri Lyne Carrington for Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue.

This Grammy trophy features the iconic brass horned gramophone atop a glossy black frustrum base. The front of the trophy features a black plaquewith gold print that reads: [Terri Lyne Carrington/ Artist Producer/ Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue/ Best Jazz Instrumental Album/ 2013]. The underside of the base is covered in black felt with an impressed logo reading: Billings Artworks Ridgeway Colorado. A rectangular portion of the felt has been cut to reveal a label on the underside of the frustrum (Unpublished work @1991/ The Recording Academy/ #51222/ Billingsartworks.com).

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2013
• Issued by: The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, American, founded 1957
• Received by: Terri Lyne Carrington, American, born 1965
• Manufactured by: Billings Artworks, American
• Type: trophies (prizes)
• Medium: brass (alloy) with lacquer and felt
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 8 1/2 × 5 7/8 × 5 7/8 in. (21.6 × 15 × 15 cm)
• Place made: Ridgway, Ouray County, Colorado, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Topic: Music
• Topic: Musicians
• Object number: 2021.101.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Terri Lyne Carrington
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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