Best Pop Solo Performance:
Winner: “Easy On Me” – Adele
“Moscow Mule” – Bad Bunny
“Bad Habits” – Steve Lacy
“Woman” – Doja Cat
“About Dumb Time” – Lizzo
“As is” – Harry Styles
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album:
WINNER: Higher – Michael Bublé
When Christmas Comes… – Kelly Clarkson
I Dream Of Christmas (Extended) – Norah Jones
Evergreen – Pentatonix
Thank you – Diana Ross
Best Musica Urbana Album:
Trapcake Vol. 2 – Lau Alejandro
Winner: Un Verano Sin Ti – Bad Bunny
LEGENDADDY – Daddy Yankee
La 167 – Falco
love and sex tapes – maruma
Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano):
Abeja Reina – Chiquis
Winner: Un Canto por México – El Musical – Natalia Lafourcade
La Reunion (Deluxe) – Los Tigress del Norte
EP #1 Forajido – Christian Nodal
Qué Ganas de Verte (Deluxe) – Marco Antonio Solis
Best Tropical Latin Album:
Winner: Pa’lla Voy – Marc Anthony
Chiero Verte Feliz – La Santa Cecilia
Lado A Lado B – Victor Manuel
Legendario – Tito Nieves
Imágenes Latinas – Spanish Harlem Orchestra
Cambiana II – Carlos Vibes
Best Instrumental Composition:
African Story – Paquito Doribela
El Pais Invisible – Miguel Zenon
Fronteras (Borders) Suite: Al-Musafir Blues – Danilo Perez
Winner: Refuge – Geoffrey Keezer
Snapshot – Pascal Le Boeuf
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album:
Between Dreams and Pleasures – Jeff Coffin
Not Tight – DOMi & JD Beck
Blooz – Grant Geisman
Jacob’s Ladder – Brad Mehldau
Winner: Empire Central – Snarky Puppy
Best lap performance:
“God Did” – DJ Khaled featuring Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, John Legend and Friday
“Vegas” – Doja Cat
“Pushin P” – Gunna & Future featuring Young Thug
“FNF (Let’s Go)” – Hitkidd & GloRilla
Winner: “The Heart Part 5” – Kendrick Lamar
Best Opera Recording Award:
Ocoin: Eurydice
WINNER: Blanchard: Fire Shut Up In My Bones
Davis: X – The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Best Alternative Music Performance:
“There’d Better Be A Mirrorball” – Arctic Monkeys
“Sure” – Master Thief
“King” – Florence + The Machine
Winner: ‘Chaise’ – Wet Legs
“Spitting Off The Edge Of The World” – yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Best Musical Film:
adele one night only
Our World – Justin Bieber
billie eilish live at the o2
Motomami Rosalia
WINNER: Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story – Various Artists
A Band A Brotherhood A Barn – Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Best Progressive R&B Album:
Operation Funk – Corey Henry
Winner: Gemini Rights – Steve Lacy
Drone – Terrace Martin
Starfruit – Moonchild
Red Balloon – Tank and the Bangus
Best R&B Album:
Good Morning Gorgeous (Deluxe) – Mary J. Blige
Breezy (Deluxe) – Chris Brown
Winner: Black Radio III – Robert Glasper
Candydrip – Lucky Day
See the Sun – PJ Morton
Best Melodic Rap Performance:
“Beautiful” – DJ Khaled featuring Future & SZA
Winner: “Wait For U” – Future Featuring Drake & Thames
“First Class” – Jack Harlow
“Die Hard” – Kendrick Lamar feat. Blxst & Amanda Leifer
“Big Energy (Live)” – Latto
Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical:
Amy Allen
Nija Charles
dreams
Winner: Tobias Jesso Jr.
Laura Welts
Best Improvised Jazz Solo:
“Rounds (Live)” – Ambrose Akinmusire
“Keep Hold On” – Gerald Albright
“Falling” – Melissa Aldana
“The Call of the Drum” – Marcus Balor
“Cherokee/Coco” – John Beasley
Winner: “Endangered Species” – Wayne Shorter & Leo Genovese
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album:
Bird Lives – John Beasley, Marcus Lindgren & SWR Big Band
In Memory of Bob Friedman – Ron Carter & The Jazzar Festival Big Band Director Christian Jacob
Winner: Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra – Stephen Feifke, Vision Watson, Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra
Center Stage – Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez, Ronnie Cuber & WDR Big Band (conductor: Michael Abene)
Arashi Architecture – Assembling Shadows of Remy Le Boeuf
Best Latin Jazz Album:
Winner: New York’s Fandango at the Wall – Artruro O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Danilo Perez featuring Crissalida – Global Messenger
If You Will – Flora Prim
Rhythm & Soul – Arturo Sandoval
Musical de las Americas – Miguel Zenon
Best Reggae Album:
Winner: The Culling – Kabaka Pyramid
Talent – Coffee
Scorcha – Sean Paul
The third charm – Protoje
Com Fly Wid Mi – Shaggy
Best Global Musical Performance:
“Udhero Na” – Adrooj Aftab & Anoushka Shankar
“Gimme Love” – Matt B & Eddie Kenzo
“Last Last” – Burna Boy
“Neva Bow Down” – Rocky Downey featuring Blvk H3ro
Winner: “Baiete” – Wouter Kellerman, Zaken Bantwini & Nomcebo Zikode
Best Global Music Album:
Surart – Berklee Indian Ensemble
Love, Damini – Burna Boy
Queen of Sheba – Angelique Kidjo & Ibrahim Maalouf
Between Us… (Live) – Anoushka Shankar, Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley featuring Manu Delago
WINNER: Shakra – Tsukami Masa
Best Bluegrass Album:
Toward the Fray – The Infamous Stringdusters
Almost Proud – The Dell McQuarrie Band
call you from my mountain – peter rowan
Winner: Crooked Tree – Holly Tuttle & Golden Highway
Get Yourself Outside – Yonder Mountain String Band
Best Americana Performance:
“Silver Moon (A Tribute to Michael Nesmith)” – Eric Alexandrakis
“There You Go Again” – Asleep at the Wheel Featuring Lyle Lovett
“The Message” – Alabama’s Blind Boys Featuring Black Violins
“You and Me on the Rock” – Brandi Carlisle featuring Lucius
Winner: “Made Up Mind” – Bonnie Raitt
Best Traditional Blues Album:
Heavy Load Blues – Government Mule
Blues Don’t Lie – Buddy Guy
WINNER: Get On Board – Taj Mahal & Rai Cooder
The sun is shining – John Mayall
Son of Mississippi – Charlie Musselwhite
Best Classical Compendium:
aspire to
Winner: Adoption Story
concert for ukraine
lost bird
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance Award:
“Beethoven: Complete String Quartets Book 2 – Middle Quartet” – Dover Quartet
“Musical Remembrances” – Neve Trio
“Perspectives” – Third Coast Percussion
Winner: “Show: Evergreen” – Attacca Quartet
“What is America?” – PUBLIQuartet
Best Choral Performance:
Bach: John Passion
Winner: born
Verdi: Requiem – The Met Remembers 9/11
Betts Contemporary Blues Album:
Overdoing – Shemekian Copeland
Crown – Eric Gales
Keeping the Pedigree – Ben Harper
Sailing – North Mississippi All-Stars
Winner: Brother Johnny – Edgar Winter
Best Folk Album:
Spellbound – Judy Collins
Winner: Revealer – Madison Cunningham
Light at the End of the Line – Janis Ian
Age of Apathy – Eoife O’Donovan
Hell on Church Street – Punch Brothers
Best Regional Roots Music Album:
Full Circle – Sean Ardoin and Kreole Rock and Soul featuring LSU Golden Band From Tigerland
Natalie Nolan – Natalie I Kamau
Halau Hula Keali’l O Nalani – Live at the Getty Center – Halau Hula Keali’l O Nalani
Lucky Man – Nathan & Zydeco Cha Chaz
Winner: Live at the 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival – Lanky Tanky
Best Orchestral Performance:
Adams, John Luther: Scilla – Breath of the World – Doug Perkins
Dvorak: Symphonies 7-9 Gustavo Dudamel
Eastman: Stay On It – Christopher Rowntree
John Williams – The Beryl Concert – John Williams
Winners: Works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman – Michael Repper
Best Classical Instrumental Solo:
“Abels: Isolation Variation” – Hayley Hahn
“Bach: The Art of Life” – Daniil Trifonov
“Beethoven: Diabelli Variations” – Mitsuko Uchida
Winner: “Letters to the Future” – Time For Three, Xian Chang, Conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra)
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album:
Eden – Joyce Didonato, Maxim Emelyanichev
How To Find You – Sasha Cooke, Kirill Kazman
Okpebholo: Lord, why am I here? – Will Lieberman, Paul Sanchez
Stranger – Works For Tenor By Nico Mulhy – Nicholas Huang
Winner: Voice of Nature – The Anthropocene – Renee Fleming, Yannick Nezet-Seguin
Best Contemporary Classical Composition:
“Akiho: Woody Suite” – Andy Aiho
“Bermel: Intonations” – Derek Bermel
“Gubaidulina – The Wrath of God” – Sophia Gubaidulina
Winner: “Put: Contact” – Kevin Putt
“Simon: Requiem for the Enslaved” – Carlos Simon
Best Country Solo Performance:
“Heart First” – Kelsea Ballerini
“Something in the Orange” – Zach Bryan
“In His Arms” – Miranda Lambert
“Circles Around This Town” – Maren Morris
Winner: “Live Forever” – Willie Nelson
Best Country Duo/Group Performance:
“Wishful Drinking” – Ingrid Andres & Sam Hunt
“Midnight Rider’s Prayer” – Brothers Osborne
“Outrunnin’ Your Memory” – Luke Combs & Miranda Lambert
“Does He Love You – Revisited” – Reba McEntire & Dolly Parton
Winner: “I Don’t Want to Be Her” – Carly Pearce & Ashley McBride
Lonely Going Where Are You Going – Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Best Rock Performance:
“So Happy It Hurts” – Bryan Adams
“Old Man” – Beck
“Wild Child” – The Black Keys
Winner: “Broken Horses” – Brandi Carlisle
“Crawl!” – Idol
“Patient Number 9” – Ozzy Osbourne featuring Jeff Beck
“Holiday” – turnstile
