Best Cerebral Pop Album : STING - The Soul Cages
Best Obscure Pop Album : JELLYFISH - Bellybutton
Best Stadium Rock Album : SIMPLE MINDS - Real Life
Best World Music Album : JEAN-LUC PONTY - Tchokola
Best Jazz Piano Album : BENNY GREEN - Greens
Best Jazz Saxophone Album : BOB BERG - In The Shadows
Best Jazz Guitar Album : STEVE KHAN - Let's Call This
Best Hendrix Impersonation : ERIC GALES BAND
Best Fusion Album : CHAD WACKERMAN - Forty Reasons
Best J.J. Cale Impersonation : DIRE STRAITS - On Every Street
Best Guitar Album : ANDY SUMMERS - World Gone Strange
Best Compilation Album : Two Rooms (music of Elton+Bernie)
Best Zappa Album : FRANK ZAPPA - Make A Jazz Noise Here
Single of the Year : BRYAN ADAMS - Everything I Do
Biggest Disappointment : Donald Fagen's NY Rock & Roll Revue
Best News of the Year : same as last year: Donald Fagen's new album will be out soon
Worst News of the Year : Frank Zappa has cancer