Album of the Year – JONI MITCHELL Night Ride Home
Jazz Album of the Year – Charlie Parker Benedetti recordings
Best Cerebral Pop Album : STING – The Soul Cages
Best Obscure Pop Album : JELLYFISH – Bellybutton
Best Stadium Rock Album : SIMPLE MINDS – Real Life
Best World Music Album : JEAN-LUC PONTY – Tchokola
Best Jazz Piano Album : BENNY GREEN – Greens
Best Jazz Saxophone Album : BOB BERG – In The Shadows
Best Jazz Guitar Album : STEVE KHAN – Let’s Call This
Best Hendrix Impersonation : ERIC GALES BAND
Best Fusion Album : CHAD WACKERMAN – Forty Reasons
Best J.J. Cale Impersonation : DIRE STRAITS – On Every Street
Best Guitar Album : ANDY SUMMERS – World Gone Strange
Best Compilation Album : Two Rooms (music of Elton+Bernie)
Best Zappa Album : FRANK ZAPPA – Make A Jazz Noise Here
Single of the Year : BRYAN ADAMS – Everything I Do
Biggest Disappointment : Donald Fagen’s NY Rock & Roll Revue
Best News of the Year : same as last year: Donald Fagen’s new album will be out soon
Worst News of the Year : Frank Zappa has cancer