Juno Award for Jazz Album of the Year – Group explained

The Juno Award for Jazz Album of the Year - Group has been awarded since 2015, as recognition each year for the best jazz album of a group in Canada.^[1]

Winners

Year	Performing artist(s)	Work	Nominees	Ref.
2015	Jane Bunnett and Maqueque	Jane Bunnett and Maqueque	Andrew Downing, Jim Lewis & David Occhipinti, Bristles Bobby Rice, Bobby Rice Latin Jazz Big Band: X-Treme Latin Jazz Brian Dickinson Trio, Fishs Eddy Myriad3, The Where
2016	Allison Au Quartet	Forest Grove	Brad Turner Quartet, Over My Head Jerry Granelli Trio, What I Hear Now Mark Kelso & The Jazz Exiles, Stealing From My Youth Peripheral Vision, Sheer Tyranny of Will
2017	Metalwood	Twenty	Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Real Enemies Dave Young Quintet, One Way Up Quinsin Nachoff's Flux, Flux Order of Canada Band, Sweet Canadiana
2018	David Braid, Mike Murley, Anders Mogensen and Johnny Aman	The North	Andrew Downing's Otterville, Otterville Carn Davidson 9, Murphy Christine Jensen and Ingrid Jensen, Infinitude Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop, Rev
2019	Andy Milne and Dapp Theory	The Seasons of Being	Allison Au Quartet, Wander Wonder Andrew Rathbun Large Ensemble, Atwood Suites Liebman/Murley Quartet, Live at U of T Quinsin Nachoff's Flux, Path of Totality	^[2]
2020	Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop	Abundance	Al Muirhead's Canadian Quintet, Undertones Brad Turner Quartet, Jump Up Dave Young Trio, Trouble in Mind Jane Bunnett and Maqueque, On Firm Ground / Tierra firme	^[3]
2021	Andy Milne and Unison	The reMission	Brandi Disterheft Trio with George Coleman, Surfboard Emie R Roussel Trio, Rythme de passage Florian Hoefner Trio, First Spring Pat LaBarbera and Kirk MacDonald, Trane of Thought, Live at the Rex	^[4]
2022	Avataar	Worldview	Lina Allemano Four, Vegetables Esteban Herrera, The Prophet The David Restivo Trio, Arancina Christine Tassan Quintette, Voyage intérieur	^[5]
2023	Florian Hoefner Trio	Desert Bloom	Andrew Rathbun Quintet, Semantics BadBadNotGood, Talk Memory Carn Davidson 9, The History of Us Mark Kelso and the Jazz Exiles, The Dragon's Tail	^[6]
2024	Hilario Duran and His Latin Jazz Big Band	Cry Me a River	Allison Au with the Migrations Ensemble, Migrations Canadian Jazz Collective, Septology: The Black Forest Session Mike Murley and Mark Eisenman Quartet, Recent History Nick Maclean Quartet feat. Brownman Ali, Convergence	^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Juno Award winners list by year. Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. March 18, 2015. April 2, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402205643/http://junoawards.ca/awards/yearly-summary/?group_id=212&category_ids=212&from_year=&to_year=&submit=Search. dead.
2. https://www.cbc.ca/music/junos/news/shawn-mendes-and-the-weeknd-lead-the-2019-juno-nominations-1.4992669 "Shawn Mendes and the Weeknd lead the 2019 Juno nominations"
3. Melody Lau, "Alessia Cara and Tory Lanez lead the 2020 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 28, 2019.
4. Holly Gordon and Andrea Warner, "Here are the 2021 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, June 4, 2021.
5. Holly Gordon, "Here are all the 2022 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, May 14, 2022.
6. Jenna Benchetrit and Arti Patel, "The Weeknd picks up 4 wins on Junos 2023 opening night". CBC News, March 11, 2023.
7. https://www.cbc.ca/music/junos/juno-awards-2024-full-list-winners-1.7149545 "Junos 2024: full list of winners"