Best jazz vocal album
Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap – Elemental
Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell – We Insist 2025!
Samara Joy – Portrait
Michael Mayo – Fly
Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach, Tom Scott, Idan Morim, Keyon Harrold & Rachel Eckroth – Live at Vic’s Las Vegas
Best jazz instrumental album
Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade – Trilogy 3 (Live)
Sullivan Fortner feat Peter Washington & Marcus Gilmore – Southern Nights
Branford Marsalis Quartet – Belonging
John Patitucci feat Chris Potter & Brian Blade – Spirit Fall
Yellowjackets – Fasten Up
Best alternative jazz album
Ambrose Akinmusire – Honey from a Winter Stone
Robert Glasper – Keys To The City Volume One
Brad Mehldau – Ride Into The Sun
Nate Smith – Live-Action
Immanuel Wilkins – Blues Blood
Best jazz performance
Lakecia Benjamin feat Immanuel Wilkins & Mark Whitfield – Noble Rise
Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade – Windows (Live)
Samara Joy – Peace Of Mind/Dreams Come True
Michael Mayo – Four
Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach, Tom Scott, Idan Morim, Keyon Harrold & Rachel Eckroth – All Stars Lead To You (Live)
Best musical theatre album
Buena Vista Social Club
Death Becomes Her
Gypsy
Just In Time
Maybe Happy Ending
Best opera recording
Heggie: Intelligence – Kwamé Ryan, conductor (Houston Grand Opera; Gene Scheer)
Huang Ruo: An American Soldier – Carolyn Kuan, conductor (American Composers Orchestra; David Henry Hwang)
Kouyoumdjian – Adoration Alan Pierson, conductor (Silvana Quartet; The Choir Of Trinity Wall Street)
O’Halloran: Trade & Mary Motorhead – Elaine Kelly (Irish National Opera Orchestra; Mark O’Halloran)
Tesori: Grounded – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus; George Brant)
Best orchestral performance
Coleridge-Taylor: Toussaint L’Ouverture; Ballade Op. 4; Suites From ’24 Negro Melodies’ – Michael Repper, conductor (National Philharmonic)
Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie – Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Ravel: Boléro – Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra Of Venezuela)
Still & Bonds – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (The Philadelphia Orchestra)
Stravinsky: Symphony In Three Movements – Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)