Juno Award for Best Jazz Album explained

The Juno Award for Best Jazz Album was an award, presented by the Juno Awards to the year's best jazz album by a Canadian artist. It was presented from 1977 until 1993, following which it was discontinued and replaced with separate categories for Contemporary Jazz and Mainstream/Traditional Jazz.^[1]

Winners

Year	Winner	Album	Nominees	Ref.
1977	Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	The Atlantic Suite	Jingle Man — Moe Koffman Travelin' On — Oscar Peterson The Jazz Album — Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Nowhere But Here — Joel Shulman
1978	Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Big Band Jazz	Ed Bickert — Ed Bickert Museum Pieces — Moe Koffman Transformations/Invocation — Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six Country Place — Don Thompson
1979	Tommy Banks Big Band feat. Big Miller	Jazz Canada Montreux 1978	Big Band Jazz, Vol. II — Humber College Jazz Ensemble Things Are Looking Up — Moe Koffman Bones Blues — Pete Magadini More Than Ever — Ted Moses
1980	Ed Bickert and Don Thompson	Sackville 4005	Determination — Michael Stewart, Keith Blackley Night Child — Oscar Peterson Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass Again — Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Walking on Air — Jim Galloway
1981	Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Present Perfect	The Book of the Heart — Glen Hall Circles — Don Thompson Entre Amis — Bob Stroup Live in Jazz City — Bob Stroup Tommy Ambrose at Last — Tommy Ambrose with the Doug Riley Band
1982	The Brass Connection	The Brass Connection	Au Privave — Wray Downes and Dave Young Clear Vision — Joe Sealy Jump Street — Peter Leitch Live in Digital — Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass
1983	Fraser MacPherson and Oliver Gannon	I Didn't Know About You	Bells - Don Thompson and Rob Piltch Blues Tales in Time - Paul Cram Sometime in Another Life - Peter Leitch and George McFetridge Time Warp - Time Warp
1984	Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	All in Good Time	A New Look — Doug Hamilton and The Brass Connection Bye Bye Baby — Ed Bickert Indian Summer — Fraser MacPherson The Lion's Eyes — Steve Holt
1985	Don Thompson	A Beautiful Friendship	Avenue B — The Bill King Quintet Free For Now — The Oliver Whitehead Quintet MacPherson — Fraser MacPherson The Many Moods of Oliver Jones — Oliver Jones
1986	Oliver Jones	Lights of Burgundy	Atras De Porta — Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Boss Brass & Woods — Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass featuring Phil Woods Doomsday Machine — Denny Christianson Big Band The Rob McConnell Sextet Old Friends/New Music — The Rob McConnell Sextet
1987	Oscar Peterson	If You Could See Me Now	Cafe Alto - Dave Turner Speak Low, Swing Hard - Oliver Jones Trio Streetniks - The Shuffle Demons Trio Jon Ballantyne - Jon Ballantyne
1989	The Hugh Fraser Quintet	Looking Up	Beyond Benghazi - Paul Cram Orchestra Contredanse - Karen Young and Michael Donato In Dew Time - Jane Bunnett Jean Beaudet Quartet - Jean Beaudet Quartet
1990	Jon Ballantyne Trio feat. Joe Henderson	Skydance	Friday the 14th — Bernie Senesky Off Centre — Time Warp Pas de Probleme — The Hugh Fraser Quintet Something's Here — The Edmonton Jazz Ensemble
1991	Mike Murley	Two Sides	The Dave McMurdo Jazz Orchestra — Dave McMurdo Oscar Peterson Live — Oscar Peterson Renee Rosnes — Renee Rosnes Time Warp Live at George's Jazz Room — Time Warp
1992	Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	The Brass Is Back	Climbing — Barry Elmes Gliding — Stan Samole
Brian Dickinson	In Transition
Renee Rosnes	For the Moment
1993	P. J. Perry	My Ideal	Brassy and Sassy — Rob McConnell and The Boss Brass Last Call at the Blue Note — Oscar Peterson Trio Rectangle Man — John Stetch Time & Tide — Mike Murley	^[2]

Notes and References

1. "Quirky mix of nominees for 1994 Junos". The Globe and Mail, February 9, 1994.
2. "Worth waiting for: A Juno award in March for best jazz album was one more indication that P.J. Perry's career, more than 35 years on, is finally unfolding as it should". The Globe and Mail, June 26, 1993.