Set to take place on International Jazz Day on Monday April 30th at Shoreditch Town Hall in London, this year’s Jazz FM awards will be honouring newcomers, innovators, and established practitioners of the jazz idiom.
Double Grammy winner, US singer, Cécile McLorin Salvant, is due to perform at the ceremony, and is also a nominee in the category of International Jazz Artist of the Year, alongside Thundercat and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah. Elsewhere, British acts are well represented and include Shabaka Hutchings, Jacob Collier, Yazz Ahmed, Jordan Rakei, Evan Parker, Rob Luft, and Zara McFarlane.
Also up for a gong are Esperanza Spalding, Robert Cray, Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’, and soul veteran Leroy Hutson…
The full list of nominees are…
Breakthrough Act of the Year
Ezra Collective
Nubya Garcia
Rob Luft
Soul Artist of the Year
Jordan Rakei
Leroy Hutson
Moonchild
UK Jazz Act of the Year (Public Vote)
Dinosaur
Ezra Collective
Kansas Smitty’s House Band
Digital Initiative of the Year
Esperanza Spalding: Exposure
Jacob Collier: I Harm U
Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club: Live Streaming
Instrumentalist of the Year
Evan Parker
Theon Cross
Yazz Ahmed
Blues Artist of the Year
Lucky Peterson
Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’
Robert Cray
Jazz Innovation of the Year
Carleen Anderson: Cage Street Memorial
Joe Armon-Jones and Maxwell Owin: Idiom
Shabaka Hutchings
Vocalist of the Year
Alice Zawadzki
Liane Carroll
Zara McFarlane
International Jazz Artist of the Year
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
Thundercat
Album of the Year (Public Vote)
Blue Note All-Stars – Our Point of View
Cécile McLorin Salvant – Dreams and Daggers
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – Diaspora
Denys Baptiste – The Late Trane
Phronesis – The Behemoth
Thundercat – Drunk
Live Experience of the Year (Public Vote)
A Concert for Alice and John – Pharoah Sanders Quartet, Denys Baptiste and Alina Bzhezhinska – EFG London Jazz Festival at The Barbican
An evening with Dave Holland – Ambleside Days Festival at Zephirellis Cinema
Jazz Re:Fest at Southbank Centre
Makaya McCraven featuring Theon Cross Trio and Jaimie Branch Fly or Die Ensemble – CHICAGOXLONDON Day 1 at Total Refreshment Centre
Randolph Matthews – Jazz in the Round at Love Supreme Festival
Ronnie Scott’s presents Ezra Collective – EFG London Jazz Festival at Islington Assembly Hall
