Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo

• In 1959 the award was known as Best Jazz Performance, Individual
• In 1960 it was awarded as Best Jazz Performance - Soloist
• From 1961 to 1971 the award was combined with the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group
• From 1972 to 1978 it was awarded as Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist
• From 1979 to 1988 it was awarded as Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist
• From 1989 to 1990 it was awarded as Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Soloist
• In 1991 it was awarded as Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist
• From 1992 to 2008 it was awarded as Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
• Since 2009 it has been awarded as Best Improvised Jazz Solo

  Winners and nominees

• Chick Corea, "Fingerprints"
• Kenny Barron, "The Eye of the Hurricane"
• Fred Hersch, "You & the Night & the Music"
• Joe Lovano, "Recorda Me"
• Brad Mehldau, "Sleeping Giant"

• Christian McBride, "Cherokee"
• Joey Alexander, "Giant Steps"
• Donny McCaslin, "Arbiters of Evolution"
• Joshua Redman, "Friend or Foe"
• John Scofield, "Past Present"

• John Scofield, "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"
• Joey Alexander, "Countdown"
• Ravi Coltrane, "In Movement"
• Fred Hersch, "We See"
• Brad Mehldau, "I Concentrate on You"

• John McLaughlin - Miles Beyond
• Sara Caswell - Can't Remember Why
• Billy Childs - Dance of Shiva
• Fred Hersch - Whisper Not
• Chris Potter - Ilimba

• John Daversa - Don't Fence Me In
• Regina Carter - Some Of That Sunshine
• Fred Hersch - We See
• Brad Mehldau - De-Dah
• Miguel Zenón - Cadenas

• 'Randy Brecker - Sozinho
• Melissa Aldana - Elsewhere
• Julian Lage - Tomorrow Is The Question
• Branford Marsalis - The Windup
• Christian McBride - Sightseeing''

  1959–2014