Grammy Award For Best Jazz Fusion Performance
Originally called the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental, the award was first presented to the jazz band Weather Report at the 22nd Grammy Awards in 1980 for the album 8:30. In 1988, the category name changed to Best Jazz Fusion Performance and was moved to a newly created Fusion field. The category name was retired before the 33rd Grammy Awards (1992) with the addition of the award for Best Contemporary Jazz Performance (currently known as Best Contemporary Jazz Album).
The Pat Metheny Group holds the record for the most wins in this category, with a total of five. David Sanborn is the only other musician to win the award more than once, with two. The composition "Birdland", written by Weather Report, earned two musicians the award: The Manhattan Transfer won in 1981 and Quincy Jones won in 1991 for the version that appears on the compilation album Back on the Block. The award went to artists or groups originating from the United States each year it was presented. Lyle Mays holds the record for the most nominations, with eight (including five with the Pat Metheny group, two as a solo artist, and one shared with Metheny, of which five came in consecutive nominations between 1981 and 1985). The group Spyro Gyra holds the record for the most nominations without a win, with six. In 1990, Terri Lyne Carrington became the first solo female artist to be nominated for the award. No female artists were nominated in 1991, the final year the award was presented, making Carrington the only female solo artist to be nominated throughout the category's lifetime.
Recipients
![Four men performing various instruments on a stage, surrounded by a drum set and other audio equipment](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Weather_Report_19810611_shinjuku_fn23.jpg/170px-Weather_Report_19810611_shinjuku_fn23.jpg)
![A man with his eyes closed playing a guitar](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Pat_Metheny_and_his_guitar.jpg/170px-Pat_Metheny_and_his_guitar.jpg)
![A man with his eyes closed, wearing a black dress shirt and playing a saxophone](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/David_Sanborn_2008_2.jpg/170px-David_Sanborn_2008_2.jpg)
![Head shot of a man with a mustache wearing a decorative black and yellow outfit](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Quincy_Jones_2007.jpg/170px-Quincy_Jones_2007.jpg)
Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.