Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

2022 • 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 2020 and Aug 30, 2021

2022 Winner is Taylor Eigsti with "Tree Falls"

Tree Falls

Taylor Eigsti

Nominees 2022

Winners

Year Winner Nomination Actions
2026 ARKAI Brightside All Nominees
2025 Taylor Eigsti Plot Armor All Nominees
2024 Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer, Rakesh Chaurasia As We Speak All Nominees
2023 Snarky Puppy Empire Central All Nominees
2022 Taylor Eigsti Tree Falls All Nominees
2021 Snarky Puppy Live At The Royal Albert Hall All Nominees
2020 Rodrigo y Gabriela Mettavolution All Nominees
2019 Steve Gadd, Steve Gadd Band Steve Gadd Band All Nominees
2018 Jeff Lorber Fusion, Jeff Lorber Prototype All Nominees
2017 Snarky Puppy Culcha Vulcha All Nominees
2016 Snarky Puppy, Metropole Orkest Sylva All Nominees
2015 Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer Bass & Mandolin All Nominees

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