Which jazz pianist won the 1963 Grammy for Album of the Year for The First Family?

Vaughn Meader won the 1963 Grammy for Album of the Year for The First Family.

The First Family was a comedy recording that parodied President John F. Kennedy and members of his family. Meader performed multiple voices, while the album used musical sketches and satire built around the Kennedy family’s public image. It became a major commercial success after its release in late 1962.

At the fifth annual Grammy Awards in 1963, the album won Album of the Year and Meader also received the award for Best Comedy Performance. Its success was extraordinary for a spoken-word comedy record, but its popularity changed rapidly after Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963. Radio stations and retailers largely withdrew it, and Meader’s career never regained its previous momentum.

The award is sometimes mistaken for a jazz honor because the question appears in a jazz context, but Meader was a comedian and impressionist, not a jazz pianist. The record’s Grammy win is the relevant fact.