| Lila Downs | Ojo De Culebra | Shake Away | Manhattan Records |
| Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate | Machengoidi | Ali & Toumani | Nonesuch World Circuit |
| Nina Gerber | Brahms Lullaby | Sweet Dreams | Goatscape |
| Ledward Kaapana | Aloha La O Waiane | Grandmaster Slack Key Guitar | Rhythm & Roots |
| Xuefei Yang | Waiting For Guests | Si Ji | GSP |
| Az Samad | Stella By Starlight | Az Samad | Az Samad |
| Tinh | The Rice Dance | My Vietnamese Suite | East Wind Records |
| Anton Emery | Child's Grove | Noone Lasses | Anton Emery |
| Leo Kottke | Accordian Bells | One Guitar No Vocals | RCA Victor |
| Duo Erato (Risa Carison, Martha Masters) | Pasquinini Sonata in d minor Allegro | Musings | GSP |
| John Fahey | Lion | Return of the Repressed | Rhino |
| Devin Rice & Erin Aas | Whiskey in the Water Tower | Arrival | Devin Rice & Erin Aas |
| Teja Gerken | Full Moon Waltz | Postcards | Teja Gerken |
| Steve Baughman | Ashokan Farewell | Life in Prism | |
| Paul Galbraith | Siciliana from Sonata #1 in g minor | Bach Sonatas & Partitas | Delos |
| Pat Metheny & Charlie Haden | Message To A Friend | Beyond The Missouri Sky | Polygram |
| Miles Davis | Flamenco Sketches | Kind Of Blue | Columbia |
| Victoria Dondysh | Partita #1 in B flat BWV 825 Sarabande | JS Bach 6 Partitas for Clavier | Centaur |
| Billy Kyle | Between Sets | Jazz Piano A Smithsonian Collection | Sony Special Products |
| Quartetto Italiano | String Quartet Op.76 No.2 Vivace Assai | A Haydn Celebration | Harmonia Mundi |
| Clifford Brown & Max Roach | Joy Spring | Bebops Greatest Hits | Rhino |
| Carol Adee | Courante | Bach To Nature | Well Tempered Productions |
| Joshua Rifkin | Scott Joplin's New Rag | Scott Joplin Piano Rags | Nonesuch |
| Randy Wilkinson | The Flatt Pavan | Elizabeth Music For Dulcimer | Kicking Mule |
| Duke Ellington | Take It Easy | the Brunswick Era vol.1 1926-29 | Decca MCA |
| Anne Akiko Meyers & Akira Eguchi | Schubert: Fantasy in C major Opus 159 Allegretto | Smile | Koch |
| Charles Mingus | Fables of Faubus | Ah Um | Columbia Legacy |
| Marc Andre Hamelin | Piano Sonata # 41 B flat H.16/41 Allegro | Haydn Piano Sonatas | Hyperion |
| Pete Seeger | Ox Driver's Song | American Favorite Ballads | Smithsonian Folkways |
| Bloodstone | Natural High | Natural High | Rhino |
| Mt Diablo String Band | Happy Tune | Grand Picnic | Squirty |
| Eric Bibb | Turning Pages | Booker's Guitar | TelArc Blues |
| Ensemble of the Bulgarian Republic | Retche Mama Da Me Jeni | Music of Bulgaria | Nonesuch |
| the Holy Modal Rounders | Euphoria | Prestige Folklore Years | Prestige Folklore |
| Barbara Keith | Detroit or Buffalo | Barbara Keith | Warner Reprise |
| various artists | Tambu: Hear When De Dubby Bawl | Smithsonian Folkways World Music Collection | Smithsonian Folkways |
| Ollabelle | Elijah Rock | Ollabelle | Sony |
| India Arie | Growth | Voyage To India | Motown |
| Jory Nash | Careful How You Break My Heart | Folk Jazz Blues & Soul | Thin Man |
| Sharon Isbin | The Unquiet Grave Joan Baez Suite Opus 144/IV | Journey to the New World | Sony Classics |
| Sylvia Herold & Euphonia | Here's Adieu My Lovely Nancy | Lovely Nancy | Sylvia Herold |
| Udit Narayan | Jaadu Teri Nazar | Rough Guide to Bollywood | World Music Network |
