Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year explained

The Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year has been awarded since 2000, as recognition each year for the best vocal jazz album in Canada.

Winners

Best Vocal Jazz Album (2000  - 2002)

Year	Winner(s)	Album	Nominees	Ref.
2000	Diana Krall	When I Look in Your Eyes	Jeri Brown, I've Got Your Number Kate Hammett-Vaughan, How My Heart Sings Karin Plato, There's Beauty in the Rain Carol Welsman, Swing Ladies, Swing!
2001	Joni Mitchell	Both Sides Now	Molly Johnson, Molly Johnson Marc Jordan, This Is How Men Cry Ranee Lee, Dark Divas Denzal Sinclaire, I Found Love
2002	Diana Krall	The Look of Love	Susie Arioli Swing Band, It's Wonderful Emilie-Claire Barlow, Tribute Jeri Brown, Image in the Mirror the Triptych Melissa Walker, I Saw the Sky

Vocal Jazz Album of the Year (2003  - present)

Year	Winner(s)	Album	Nominees	Ref.
2003	Diana Krall	Live in Paris	Coral Egan, the path of least resistance Molly Johnson, Another Day Susie Arioli Swing Band, Pennies from Heaven Joani Taylor and Bob Murphy, The Wall Street Sessions
2004	Holly Cole	Shade	Jeri Brown, Firm Roots Ranee Lee, Maple Groove Denzal Sinclaire, Denzal Sinclaire Carol Welsman, The Language of Love
2005	Diana Krall	The Girl in the Other Room	Susie Arioli Band feat. Jordan Officer, That's for Me Kate Hammett-Vaughan Quintet, Eclipse Marc Jordan, Make Believe Ballroom Dione Taylor, Open Your Eyes
2006	Diana Krall	Christmas Songs	Paul Anka, Rock Swings Cadence, Twenty For One Ranee Lee, Just You, Just Me Sophie Milman, Sophie Milman
2007	Diana Krall	From This Moment On	Lori Cullen, Calling for Rain Kellylee Evans, Fight or Flight? Molly Johnson, Messin' Around Elizabeth Shepherd, Start to Move
2008	Sophie Milman	Make Someone Happy	Emilie-Claire Barlow, The Very Thought of You Holly Cole, Holly Cole Deborah Cox, Destination Moon Michael Kaeshammer, Days Like These
2009	Molly Johnson	Lucky	Diana Panton, If the Moon Turns Green... Elizabeth Shepherd (musician), Parkdale Yvette Tollar, Ima Nikki Yanofsky, Ella...Of Thee I Swing
2010	Ranee Lee	Ranee Lee Lives Upstairs	Emilie-Claire Barlow, Haven't We Met? Michael Kaeshammer, Lovelight Diana Krall, Quiet Nights Carol Welsman, I Like Men
2011	Kellylee Evans	Nina	Emilie-Claire Barlow, The Beat Goes On Laila Biali, Tracing Light Jeff Healey, Last Call Nikki Yanofsky, Nikki
2012	Sonia Johnson	Le Carré de nos amours	Fern Lindzon, Two Kites Sophie Milman, In the Moonlight The Nylons, Skin Tight Diana Panton, To Brazil with Love
2013	Emilie-Claire Barlow	Seule ce soir	Diana Krall, Glad Rag Doll Diana Panton, Christmas Kiss Elizabeth Shepherd, Rewind Carol Welsman, Journey
2014	Mike Rud ft. Sienna Dahlen	Notes on Montréal	Matt Dusk, My Funny Valentine: The Chet Baker Songbook Sonia Johnson, Charles Biddle Jr. and Annie Poulain, Triades Amy McConnell and William Sperandei, Stealing Genius Erin Propp with Larry Roy, Courage, My Love
2015	Diana Panton	Red	Julie Crochetière, Counting Dreams Angela Galuppo, Angela Galuppo Molly Johnson, Because of Billie Elizabeth Shepherd, The Signal
2016	Emilie-Claire Barlow	Clear Day	Dan Brubeck Quartet, Live from the Cellar Jaclyn Guillou, This Bitter Earth Tara Kannangara, Some Version of the Truth Alex Pangman, New
2017	Bria Skonberg	Bria	Heather Bambrick, You'll Never Know Matt Dusk and Florence K, Quiet Nights Barbra Lica, I'm Still Learning Amanda Tosoff, Words
2018	Diana Krall	Turn Up the Quiet	Matt Dusk, Old School Yule Kellylee Evans, Come On Michael Kaeshammer, No Filter Bria Skonberg, With a Twist
2019	Laila Biali	Laila Biali	Holly Cole, Holly Diana Krall and Tony Bennett, Love Is Here to Stay Diana Panton, Solstice/Equinox Jodi Proznick and Laila Biali, Sun Songs	^[1]
2020	Dominique Fils-Aimé	Stay Tuned!	Jazz Affair, Wishes Monkey House, Friday Elizabeth Shepherd, Montreal Bria Skonberg, Nothing Never Happens	^[2]
2021	Sammy Jackson	With You	Laila Biali, Out of Dust Sophie Day, Clémence Matt Dusk, Sinatra Diana Krall, This Dream of You	^[3]
2022	Caity Gyorgy	Now Pronouncing: Caity Gyorgy	Alex Bird and the Jazz Mavericks, You Are the Light and the Way Holly Cole Trio, Montreal (Live) Elizabeth Shepherd and Michael Occhipinti, The Weight of Hope Amanda Tosoff, Earth Voices	^[4]
2023	Caity Gyorgy	Featuring	Laura Anglade and Sam Kirmayer, Venez donc chez moi The Ostara Project, The Ostara Project Diana Panton, Blue Nikki Yanofsky, Nikki by Starlight	^[5]
2024	Dominique Fils-Aimé	Our Roots Run Deep	Denielle Bassels, Little Bit a' Love Laila Biali, Your Requests Alex Bird and Ewen Farncombe, Songwriter Caity Gyorgy and Mark Limacher, You're Alike, You Two	^[6]

Notes and References

1. 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"
2. Melody Lau, "Alessia Cara and Tory Lanez lead the 2020 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 28, 2019.
3. Holly Gordon and Andrea Warner, "Here are the 2021 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, June 4, 2021.
4. https://sorstu.ca/gala-des-prix-juno-2022-charlotte-cardin-devance-justin-bieber-et-the-weeknd-dans-les-nominations/ "Gala des prix JUNO 2022 | Charlotte Cardin devance Justin Bieber et The Weeknd dans les nominations!"
5. Jenna Benchetrit and Arti Patel, "The Weeknd picks up 4 wins on Junos 2023 opening night". CBC News, March 11, 2023.
6. https://www.cbc.ca/music/junos/juno-awards-2024-full-list-winners-1.7149545 "Junos 2024: full list of winners"