JAZZ & BLUES: - Best Improvised Jazz Solo: “Sozinho”- Randy Brecker, soloist – GANADOR “Elsewhere” — Melissa Aldana, soloist “Tomorrow Is The Question” — Julian Lage, soloist “The Windup” — Brandford Marsalis, soloist “Sightseeing” — Christian McBride, soloist - Best Jazz Vocal Album: 12 Little Spells — Esperanza Spalding – GANADOR Thirsty Ghost — Sara Gazarek Love & Liberation — Jazzmeia Horn Alone Together — Catherine Russell Screenplay — The Tierney Sutton Band - Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Finding Gabriel — Brad Mehldau – GANADOR In The Key Of The Universe — Joey DeFrancesco The Secret Between The Shadow And The Soul — Branford Marsalis Quartet Christian McBride’s New Jawn — Brad Mehldau Come What May – Joshua Redman Quartet
- Best Large
Jazz Ensemble Album:
Triple Helix – Anat Cohen Tentet
Dancer in Nowhere – Miho Hazama
Hiding Out – Mike Holober & The Gotham
Jazz Orchestra
The Omni-American Book Club – Brian
Lynch Big Band – GANADOR
One Day Wonder – Terraza Big Band
- Best Latin Jazz Album: Antidote — Chick Corea & The Spanish Heart Band – GANADOR Sorte!: Music By John Finbury — Thalma De Freitas With Vitor Gonçalves, John Patitucci, Chico Pinheiro, Rogerio Boccato & Duduka Da Fonseca Una Noche Con Rubén Blades — Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis & Rubén Blades Carib — David Sánchez Sonero: The Music Of Ismael Rivera — Miguel Zenón
- Best
Traditional Blues Album:
Tall, Dark & Handsome — Delbert
McClinton & Self-made Men – GANADOR
Kingfish — Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
Sitting On Top Of The Blues — Bobby Rush
Baby, Please Come Home — Jimmie Vaughan
Spectacular Class — Jontavious Willis
- Best
Contemporary Blues Album:
This Land — Gary Clark Jr. – GANADOR
Venom & Faith — Larkin Poe
Brighter Days — Robert Randolph & The Family Band
Somebody Save Me — Sugaray Rayford
Keep On — Southern Avenue
