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DOWNBEAT 90th ANNUAL READERS POLL WINNERS
Group of the Year
Flute
Guitar
Beyond Instrumentalist
NOMINEES
Hall of Fame
Artist of the Year
Group of the Year
Charles Lloyd Quartet
Pat Metheny Side-Eye
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
Soprano Saxophone
Alto Saxophone
Tenor Saxophone
Flute
Piano
Guitar
Electric Bass
Percussion
Beyond Instrumentalist
Female Vocalist
Male Vocalist
Bobby McFerrin
Composer
Arranger
Producer
Blues Artist of the Year
Blues Album
Bobby Rush & Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Young Fashioned Ways
Beyond Artist
Beyond Album
Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin