Jazz FM, which is due to host its annual and eagerly anticipated awards ceremony, at the Bloomsbury Ballroom in London on Tuesday April 26th has just announced a list of this year’s nominees. There are some impressive names among them, including much-vaunted jazz virtuosi such as KAMASI WASHINGTON, CHRISTIAN SCOTT and MARCUS MILLER, female singers JILL SCOTT, ESKA and LIZZ WRIGHT, international groups SNARKY PUPPY and HIATUS KAIYOTE and top UK musicians MATTHEW HALSALL, ZOE RAHMAN, BINKER & MOSES and SONS OF KEMET.
Public voting in three categories – Album Of The Year, UK Jazz Act Of The Year, and Live Experience Of The Year – opens today (February 24th) and closes on 31st March. It can be accessed by this link: http://www.jazzfmawards.com/
GREGORY PORTER, who is due to perform at the awards in April, is to be the recipient of a JAZZ IMPACT AWARD.
Says Jazz FM’s CEO Jonathan Arendt: “We are delighted to announce this year’s Jazz FM Awards nominees celebrating the extraordinary work from established international Grammy-winning superstars to up and coming homegrown talent, this is sure to be our biggest and best year yet.”
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Full list of 2016 Nominees:
Breakthrough Act of the Year
· Binker & Moses
· Jacob Collier
· Nerija
International Jazz Artist of the Year (Sponsored by Yamaha)
· Kamasi Washington
· Marcus Miller
· Maria Schneider
Blues Artist of the Year
· Alabama Shakes
· Buddy Guy
· Gary Clark Jnr
Soul Artist of the Year
· Jill Scott
· Leon Bridges
· Lizz Wright
Instrumentalist of the Year (Sponsored by Arqiva)
· Mark Lockheart
· Theon Cross
· Zoe Rahman
Vocalist of the Year
· Eska
· Lauren Kinsella
· Liane Carroll
Jazz Innovation of the Year (Sponsored by Mishcon de Reya)
· Black Top
· Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah
· David Virelles
Digital Initiative of the Year (Sponsored by 7digital)
· Chassol
· Jacob Collier
· Tin Men and the Telephone
Album of the Year (Public Vote)
· Christian Scott ‘Stretch Music’
· Hiatus Kiayote ‘Choose Your Weapon’
· Kamasi Washington ‘The Epic’
· Maria Schneider ‘The Thompson Fields’
· Charenee Wade ‘Offering’
· Snarky Puppy ‘Sylva’
UK Jazz Act of the Year (Public Vote)
(Sponsored by Grange Hotels)
· Binker & Moses
· Matthew Halsall
· Sons of Kemet
Live Experience of the Year (Public Vote)
· Ice-T and Ron McCurdy – The Langston Hughes Project at the Barbican
· Maria Schneider at Symphony Hall Birmingham
· Taylor McFerrin at Rio Club Glasgow
Lifetime Achievement
(Sponsored by PPL)
To be announced in due course
