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Best Jazz Performance

“Noble Rise” – Lakecia Benjamin Featuring Immanuel Wilkins & Mark Whitfield

Best Jazz Vocal Album

ElementalDee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap

Best Latin Jazz Album

Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Featuring Pedrito Martínez, Daymé Arocena, Jon Faddis, Donald Harrison & Melvis Santa

A Tribute to Benny Moré and Nat King ColeGonzalo Rubalcaba, Yainer Horta & Joey Calveiro

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

BEATrioBéla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, Antonio Sanchez

Best Bluegrass Album

Carter & ClevelandMichael Cleveland & Jason Carter

Best Traditional Blues Album

Young Fashioned Ways – Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Bobby Rush

Best Regional Roots Album

A Tribute to the King of Zydeco – (Various Artists including C.J. Chenier & Marcia Ball)

Best Global Music Performance

“Shrini’s Dream (Live)” – Shakti

Best Global Music Album

Mind Explosion (50th Anniversary Tour Live) – Shakti

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

Sinners – (Various Artists including Bobby Rush & Cedric Burnside)

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DOWNBEAT 90th ANNUAL READERS POLL WINNERS

Group of the Year

Artemis

Flute

Charles Lloyd

Guitar

Pat Metheny

Beyond Instrumentalist

Béla Fleck (Banjo)

NOMINEES

Hall of Fame

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Abdullah Ibrahim

Arturo Sandoval

Artist of the Year

Charles Lloyd

Pat Metheny

Wynton Marsalis

Bill Charlap

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Group of the Year

Charles Lloyd Quartet

Pat Metheny Side-Eye

SFJAZZ Collective

Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, Antonio Sanchez Trio

Album of the Year

Bill Charlap Trio, And Then Again

Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Freedom, Justices And Hope

Béla Fleck/Edmar Castañeda/Antonio Sanchez BEATrio

Trumpet

Wynton Marsalis

Soprano Saxophone

Ravi Coltrane

Alto Saxophone

Lakecia Benjamin

Tenor Saxophone

Charles Lloyd

Flute

Lakecia Benjamin

Piano

Bill Charlap

Guitar

John Pizzarelli

Electric Bass

Meshell Ndegeocello

Percussion

Poncho Sanchez

Pedrito Martínez

Beyond Instrumentalist

Brandee Younger

Female Vocalist

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Veronica Swift

Male Vocalist

Bobby McFerrin

John Pizzarelli

Composer

Pat Metheny

Wynton Marsalis

Arranger

Wynton Marsalis

Producer

Don Was

Blues Artist of the Year

Marcia Ball

Bobby Rush

Blues Album

Bobby Rush & Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Young Fashioned Ways

Beyond Artist

Béla Fleck

Meshell Ndegeocello

Beyond Album

Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin

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