page_title: Grammy Award for Best New Age Album
section_title: Recipients
hierarchical_section_title: Grammy Award for Best New Age Album / Recipients
caption_attribution_description: English: Pat Metheny playing his guitar at Milano Jazzin' Festival. Italiano: Pat Metheny mentre suona la sua chitarra al Milano Jazzin' Festival.
context_page_description: The Grammy Award for Best New Age Album is presented to recording artists for quality albums in the new-age music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".
  Originally called the Grammy Award for Best New Age Recording, the honor was first presented to Swiss musician Andreas Vollenweider at the 29th Grammy Awards in 1987 for his album Down to the Moon. Two compilation albums featuring Windham Hill Records artists were nominated that same year. The record label was founded by William Ackerman, later an award nominee and 2005 winner for the album Returning. From 1988 to 1991 the category was known as Best New Age Performance. Since 1992 the award has been presented as Best New Age Album.
context_section_description: Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.
caption: 2004 award recipient Pat Metheny performing in 2008
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