Ceremonia odbyła się w The Paramount Studios w Los Angeles z udziałem Duke’a Ellingtona.
Wybrana dyskografia 1946 The Classic Swing of Buck Clayton (Original Jazz Classics) 1954 How Hi the Fi (Columbia) The Huckle-Buck and Robbins’ Nest (Columbia) 1955 Buck Clayton Jams Benny Goodman (Columbia) Jumpin’ at the Woodside – A Buck Clayton Jam Session (Columbia) 1956 All the Cats Join In (Columbia) 1957 Buck Meets Ruby (Vanguard) 1958 Harry Edison Swings Buck Clayton (Verve) 1959 Songs for Swingers (Columbia) 1960 The Classic Swing of Buck Clayton (Riverside) 1961 Buck & Buddy Blow the Blues (Prestige Swingville) Buck & Buddy (Prestige Swingville) 1962 One for Buck (Columbia) 1963 Buck Clayton’s Canadian Caper (Discus Records) 1968 Jam Sessions from the Vault (Columbia) 1973 Just a Groove (Vanguard) 1974 A Buck Clayton Jam Session (Chiaroscuro Records) 1979 Tenderly (Inner City) Passport to Paradise (Inner City) Copenhagen Concert (SteepleChase) 1988 Jam Sessions from the Vault (Columbia) 1989 A Swingin’ Dream (Stash) 1992 Buck Clayton Meets Joe Turner (Black Lion) 2004 Buck Clayton 1949–1953 (Classics R&B)