Trustees Award | GRAMMY.com

Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss
Awarded: 1997 Harold Arlen
Awarded: 1987 Peter Asher
Awarded: 2024 Ashford & Simpson
Awarded: 2019 George Avakian
Awarded: 2009 Clarence Avant
Awarded: 2008 Estelle Axton
Awarded: 2007 Burt Bacharach & Hal David
Awarded: 1997 Dave Bartholomew
Awarded: 2012 Béla Bartok
Awarded: 1984 Count Basie
Awarded: 1981 The Beatles
Awarded: 1972 Al Bell
Awarded: 2011 Thom Bell
Awarded: 2017 Marilyn & Alan Bergman
Awarded: 2013 Emile Berliner
Awarded: 1987 Chris Blackwell
Awarded: 2006 Harold Bradley
Awarded: 2010 Owen Bradley
Awarded: 2006 John Cage
Awarded: 2016 Hoagy Carmichael
Awarded: 2005 Elliott Carter
Awarded: 2009 Ed Cherney
Awarded: 2021 Leonard & Phil Chess
Awarded: 2013 Dick Clark
Awarded: 1990 Aaron Copland
Awarded: 1981 Don Cornelius
Awarded: 2005 Pierre Cossette
Awarded: 1995 John Culshaw
(see Solti)
Awarded: 1967 Hal David
(see Bacharach)
Awarded: 1997 Clive Davis
Awarded: 2000 Henry Diltz
Awarded: 2023 Walt Disney
Awarded: 1989 Thomas A. Dorsey
Awarded: 1992 Tom Dowd
Awarded: 2002 Lamont Dozier
(see Holland/Dozier/Holland)
Awarded: 1998 Thomas A. Edison
Awarded: 1977 Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds
Awarded: 2021 Ken Ehrlich
Awarded: 2020 DJ Kool Herc
Awarded: 2024 Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn
Awarded: 1968 Ahmet Ertegun
Awarded: 1993 Nesuhi Ertegun
Awarded: 1995 Christine M. Farnon
Awarded: 1992 Wilma Cozart Fine
Awarded: 2011 Fred Foster
Awarded: 2016 Alan Freed
Awarded: 2002 Milt Gabler
Awarded: 1991 Kenneth Gamble And Leon Huff
Awarded: 1999 George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin
Awarded: 1986 Ira Gershwin
(see George Gershwin)
Awarded: 1986 Philip Glass
Awarded: 2020 Gerry Goffin & Carole King
Awarded: 2004 Benny Golson
Awarded: 2021 Berry Gordy
Awarded: 1991 Bill Graham
Awarded: 2018 Norman Granz
Awarded: 1994 Florence Greenberg
Awarded: 2010 Rick Hall
Awarded: 2014 Oscar Hammerstein II
Awarded: 1992 John Hammond
NOTE: This is different person from John Hammond the blues artist.
Awarded: 1971 W.C. Handy
Awarded: 1993 Lorenz Hart
Awarded: 1992 Larry Hiller
Awarded: 1971 Holland/Dozier/Holland
(Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Edward Holland)
Awarded: 1998 Jac Holzman
Awarded: 2008 Leon Huff
(see Gamble And Huff)
Awarded: 1999 Steve Jobs
Awarded: 2012 Eldridge R. Johnson
Awarded: 1985 Quincy Jones
Awarded: 1989 Joel Katz
Awarded: 2024 Orrin Keepnews
Awarded: 2004 Jerome Kern
Awarded: 1987 Carole King
(see Goffin)
Awarded: 2004 Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe
Awarded: 1999 Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
Awarded: 1999 Goddard Lieberson
Awarded: 1979 Alfred Lion
Awarded: 2005 Alan Livingston
Awarded: 2013 Frederick Loewe
(see Lerner & Loewe)
Awarded: 1999 Alan Lomax
Awarded: 2003 Bruce Lundvall
Awarded: 2011 Johnny Mandel
Awarded: 2019 Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
Awarded: 2015 Arif Mardin
Awarded: 2001 Ellis Marsalis
Awarded: 2023 Jim Marshall
Awarded: 2014 George Martin
Awarded: 1996 Cosimo Matassa
Awarded: 2007 Marian McPartland
Awarded: 2004 Johnny Mercer
Awarded: 1987 Walter C. Miller
Awarded: 2010 Willie Mitchell
Awarded: 2008 Dr. Robert Moog
Awarded: 1970 Ennio Morricone
Awarded: 2014 Jerry Moss
(see Alpert)
Awarded: 1997 New York Philharmonic
Awarded: 2003 Mo Ostin
Awarded: 2017 Les Paul
Awarded: 1983 Ralph S. Peer
Awarded: 2017 Krzysztof Penderecki
Awarded: 1968 Richard Perry
Awarded: 2015 Sam Phillips
Awarded: 1991 Cole Porter
Awarded: 1989 Frances Preston
Awarded: 1998 Phil Ramone
Awarded: 2001 Richard Rodgers
Awarded: 1989 Al Schmitt
Awarded: 2006 George T. Simon
Awarded: 1993 Frank Sinatra
Awarded: 1979 Georg Solti & John Culshaw
Awarded: 1967 Stephen Sondheim
Awarded: 2007 Phil Spector
Awarded: 2000 Seymour Stein
Awarded: 2018 Jim Stewart
Awarded: 2023 Leopold Stokowski
Awarded: 1977 Mike Stoller
(see Leiber & Stoller)
Awarded: 1999 Chris Strachwitz
Awarded: 2016 Billy Strayhorn
(see Ellington)
Awarded: 1968 Dr. Billy Taylor
Awarded: 2005 Allen Toussaint
Awarded: 2009 Rudy Van Gelder
Awarded: 2012 Frank Walker
Awarded: 2020 Cynthia Weil
(see Mann)
Awarded: 2015 George Wein
Awarded: 2015 Paul Weston
Awarded: 1971 Jerry Wexler
Awarded: 1996 John Williams
Awarded: 2018