Top 10 Male Vocal Performances (vocal only)
"Vocal only" means that those who are also play an instrument on the recording belong in another category.
- Kurt Elling: "Night Dream" from Live in Chicago
- Leon Thomas: "Creator Has a Master Plan" from Karma by Pharoah Sanders
- Bob Dorough: "Nothing Like You" from the Sorcerer by Miles Davis
- Oscar Brown, Jr.: "But I Was Cool" from Sin and Soul
- Joe Williams: "Everyday I Have the Blues" from Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings (with Count Basie)
- Miles Griffith and Roger Holland: "Yes, Yes, Oh Yes" from Truth, Justice and the Blues by James Williams and ICU
- Johnny Hartman: "My One and Only Love" from John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (with John Coltrane)
- Bobby McFerrin: "Third Floor Richard" from A Night in Copenhagen by Charles Lloyd
- King Pleasure: "Parker's Mood," reissued on various collections
- Tony Bennett: "When In Rome" from The Bill Evans/Tony Bennett Album