Juno Award for Best Jazz Album

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]