2025 Grammy Nominees
Andre 3000 picked up an Album of the Year nomination among mostly pop nominees!
2025 Grammys Nominations – Full Winners – Nominees List
Best Jazz Performance
- “Walk With Me, Lord (SOUND | SPIRIT),” The Baylor Project
- “Phoenix Reimagined (Live),” Lakecia Benjamin Featuring Randy Brecker, Jeff “Tain” Watts & John Scofield
- “Juno,” Chick Corea & Béla Fleck
- “Twinkle Twinkle Little Me,” Samara Joy Featuring Sullivan Fortner
- “Little Fears,” Dan Pugach Big Band Featuring Nicole Zuraitis & Troy Roberts
Best Jazz Vocal Album
- Journey In Black, Christie Dashiell
- Wildflowers Vol. 1, Kurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner
- A Joyful Holiday, Samara Joy
- Milton + esperanza, Milton Nascimento & esperanza spalding
- My Ideal, Catherine Russell & Sean Mason
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
- Owl Song, Ambrose Akinmusire Featuring Bill Frisell & Herlin Riley
- Beyond This Place, Kenny Barron Featuring Kiyoshi Kitagawa, Johnathan Blake, Immanuel Wilkins & Steve Nelson
- Phoenix Reimagined (Live), Lakecia Benjamin
- Remembrance, Chick Corea & Béla Fleck
- Solo Game, Sullivan Fortner
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
- Returning To Forever, John Beasley & Frankfurt Radio Big Band
- And So It Goes, The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra
- Walk A Mile In My Shoe, Orrin Evans & The Captain Black Big Band
- Bianca Reimagined: Music For Paws And Persistence, Dan Pugach Big Band
- Golden City, Miguel Zenón
Best Latin Jazz Album
- Spain Forever Again, Michel Camilo & Tomatito
- Cubop Lives!, Zaccai Curtis
- COLLAB, Hamilton de Holanda & Gonzalo Rubalcaba
- Time And Again, Eliane Elias
- El Trio: Live in Italy, Horacio ‘El Negro’ Hernández, John Beasley & José Gola
- Cuba And Beyond, Chucho Valdés & Royal Quartet
- As I Travel, Donald Vega Featuring Lewis Nash, John Patitucci & Luisito Quintero
Best Alternative Jazz Album
- Night Reign, Arooj Aftab
- New Blue Sun, André 3000
- Code Derivation, Robert Glasper
- Foreverland, Keyon Harrold
- No More Water: The Gospel Of James Baldwin, Meshell Ndegeocello
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
- À Fleur De Peau, Cyrille Aimée
- Visions, Norah Jones
- Good Together, Lake Street Dive
- Impossible Dream, Aaron Lazar
- Christmas Wish, Gregory Porter
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
- Plot Armor, Taylor Eigsti
- Rhapsody In Blue, Béla Fleck
- Orchestras (Live), Bill Frisell Featuring Alexander Hanson, Brussels Philharmonic, Rudy Royston & Thomas Morgan
- Mark, Mark Guiliana
- Speak To Me, Julian Lage
Best Instrumental Composition (Artist names in parentheses)
- “At Last,” Shelton G. Berg, composer (Shelly Berg)
- “Communion,” Christopher Zuar, composer (Christopher Zuar Orchestra)
- “I Swear, I Really Wanted To Make A ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time,” André 3000, Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau & Carlos Niño, composers (André 3000)
- “Remembrance,” Chick Corea, composer (Chick Corea & Béla Fleck)
- “Strands,” Pascal Le Boeuf, composer (Akropolis Reed Quintet, Pascal Le Boeuf & Christian Euman)
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella (Artist names in parentheses)
- “Baby Elephant Walk – Encore,” Michael League, arranger (Snarky Puppy)
- “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” Jacob Collier, Tori Kelly & John Legend, arrangers (Jacob Collier Featuring John Legend & Tori Kelly)
- “Rhapsody In Blue(Grass),” Béla Fleck & Ferde Grofé, arrangers (Béla Fleck
- Featuring Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz & Bryan Sutton)
- “Rose Without The Thorns,” Erin Bentlage, Alexander Lloyd Blake, Scott Hoying,
- A.J. Sealy & Amanda Taylor, arrangers (Scott Hoying Featuring säje & Tonality)
- “Silent Night,” Erin Bentlage, Sara Gazarek, Johnaye Kendrick & Amanda Taylor, arrangers (säje)
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