Best Jazz Guitar : Lee Ritenour - Stolen Moments
Best Pop Album : Prefab Sprout - Jordan: The Comeback
Best Intelligent Heavy Metal Guitar : Steve Vai - Passion & Warfare (everything's relative)
Best Jazz Piano : Benny Green - Lineage
Best Led Zeppelin/Elvis Spoof : Dread Zeppelin - Un-led-ed
Best World Music : Dead Can Dance - Aion
Best African Music : Johnny Clegg - Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World
Best Blues Guitar : Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues
Best Folk/Pop album : Suzanne Vega - Days of Open Hand
Biggest Disappointment : Paul Simon - Rhythm of the Saints
Best Metheny Album : Pat Metheny - Question and Answer
Single of the Year : Madonna - Vogue
Best News of the Year : Donald Fagen is recording again