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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