Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
Jazz musicians who received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award: list of 64 recipients by year.
Recipients
| 2019 | Billy Eckstine American musician (1914–1993) |
| 2018 | Louis Jordan American jazz, blues and rhythm and blues musician, songwriter and… |
| 2013 | Charlie Haden American musician and educator (1937–2014) |
| 2012 | Antônio Carlos Jobim Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and… |
| 2011 | Roy Haynes American jazz drummer and group leader (1925–2024) |
| 2010 | André Previn German-American conductor, pianist, and composer (1929–2019) |
| 2010 | Bobby Darin American singer and actor (1936–1973) |
| 2010 | Clark Terry American swing and bebop trumpeter (1920–2015) |
| 2009 | Dean Martin American singer, actor, comedian and film producer (1917–1995) |
| 2009 | Hank Jones American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer (1918-2010) |
| 2008 | Max Roach American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer (1924–2007) |
| 2008 | Cab Calloway American jazz singer (1907–1994) |
| 2007 | Ornette Coleman American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer… |
| 2007 | Booker T. & the M.G.'s American R&B/funk band |
| 2006 | Eric Clapton British musician |
| 2005 | Art Blakey American jazz drummer and bandleader (1919–1990) |
| 2005 | Jelly Roll Morton American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer (1890–1941) |
| 2004 | Sonny Rollins American jazz saxophonist and composer (1930–2026) |
| 2004 | Artie Shaw American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader (1910-2004) |
| 2003 | Etta James American singer (1938–2012) |
| 2003 | Glenn Miller American band leader, arranger, and composer (1904–1944) |
| 2003 | Johnny Mathis American singer |
| 2002 | Perry Como American singer, actor, television personality (1912-2001) |
| 2002 | Rosemary Clooney American singer and actress (1928–2002) |
| 2002 | Al Green American singer |
| 2001 | Joni Mitchell Canadian musician |
| 2001 | Tony Bennett American singer (1926–2023) |
| 2001 | Count Basie American jazz musician and composer (1904–1984) |
| 2001 | Sammy Davis Jr. American entertainer (1925–1990) |
| 1999 | Mel Tormé American recording artist (1925–1999) |
| 1998 | The Mills Brothers American jazz and pop vocal quartet (1923-1981) |
| 1997 | Frank Zappa American musician (1940–1993) |
| 1997 | Stéphane Grappelli French jazz violinist (1908–1997) |
| 1996 | Oscar Peterson Canadian jazz pianist (1925–2007) |
| 1996 | Dave Brubeck American jazz pianist and composer (1920–2012) |
| 1996 | Charles Mingus American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader (1922–1979) |
| 1995 | Barbra Streisand American singer and actress (born 1942) |
| 1995 | Henry Mancini American film composer (1924–1994) |
| 1995 | Peggy Lee American singer (1920–2002) |
| 1994 | Bill Evans American jazz pianist (1929–1980) |
| 1993 | Fats Waller American jazz pianist and composer (1904–1943) |
| 1992 | John Coltrane American jazz saxophonist (1926–1967) |
| 1992 | Thelonious Monk American jazz pianist and composer (1917–1982) |
| 1990 | Miles Davis American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926–1991) |
| 1990 | Nat King Cole American singer and jazz pianist (1919–1965) |
| 1989 | Fred Astaire American dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer (1899–1987) |
| 1989 | Dizzy Gillespie American jazz trumpeter (1917–1993) |
| 1989 | Lena Horne American singer, actress, dancer and activist (1917–2010) |
| 1989 | Sarah Vaughan American jazz and classical singer (1924–1990) |
| 1988 | Ray Charles American singer, pianist and songwriter (1930–2004) |
| 1988 | Art Tatum American jazz pianist (1909–1956) |
| 1987 | Fats Domino American pianist and singer (1928-2017) |
| 1987 | Benny Carter American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer… |
| 1987 | Woody Herman American jazz musician and bandleader (1913–1987) |
| 1986 | Billie Holiday American jazz singer (1915–1959) |
| 1986 | Benny Goodman American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909–1986) |
| 1983 | Charlie Parker American jazz saxophonist (1920–1955) |
| 1972 | Louis Armstrong American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer (1901–1971) |
| 1967 | Ella Fitzgerald American jazz singer (1917–1996) |
| 1966 | Duke Ellington American jazz pianist and composer (1899–1974) |
| 1965 | Frank Sinatra American singer and actor (1915–1998) |
| 1962 | Bing Crosby American singer and actor (1903–1977) |
| — | Chet Atkins American guitarist (1924–2001) |
| — | Ahmad Jamal American jazz pianist (1930-2023) |