- Terri Lyne Carrington – Wind Flower
- Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway – Crooked Tree
- Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra feat. the Congra Patria Son Jarocho Collective – Las Poblanas
- Willie Nelson – With A Little Help From My Friends
- Aaron Neville with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band – Stompin’ Ground
- New York Youth Symphony & Michael Repper – Ethiopia’s Shadow in America: II. His Resignation and Faith
- Alphabet Rockers – Juneteenth
- Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder – Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
- White Sun – Pavan Guru
- Kabaka Pyramid & Peter Tosh – Mystik Man
- Bonnie Raitt – Just Like That
- Ozzy Osbourne – Patient Number 9 (feat. Jeff Beck)
- Samara Joy – Misty
- Magnus Lindgren, John Beasley & The SWR Big Band – Scrapple from the Apple (feat. Magnus Lindgren & Martin Auer)
- The Crossing – Donald Nally, conductor – Spectral Spirits: II. Eyewitness. Henry David Thoreau and the Passenger Pigeon
- Edgar Winter – Stranger (feat. Michael McDonald, Joe Walsh & Ringo Starr)
- Renée Fleming , Alison Krauss , Rhiannon Giddens & Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Before the Deluge (Arr. Caroline Shaw)
- Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet – Other Song
- ROSALÍA – HENTAI
- Geoffrey Keezer – Refuge
- Steven Feifke, Bijon Watson & Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra – I’ve Got Algorithm
- Robert Glasper – It Don’t Matter
- Brandi Carlile – Broken Horses
- Christine McVie – Songbird (Orchestral Version)
- Chaise Longue – Wet Leg
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