Here- in bold– are the 2009 Parliamentary Awards winners. And then a few unofficial ones on the night…
There were nine categories, and a tenth , special award.
1) Jazz Musician of the Year
Jason Yarde
Phil Robson
Zem Audu
2) Jazz CD
Norma Winstone, ‘Distances’
Phil Robson, ‘Six Strings & the Beat’
The Sam Crockatt Quartet, ‘Howeird’
3) Jazz Ensemble
Courtney Pine’s Jazz Warriors
Ryan Quigley Sextet
Zoe & Idris Rahman’s ‘Where Rivers Meet’ project
4) Jazz Venue
606 Club (London)
Fleece Jazz (South East England)
St Ives Jazz Club (Cornwall)
The Spin (Oxford)
Wakefield Jazz (Yorkshire)
5) Jazz Journalist
Kevin LeGendre
Mike Flynn
John L Walters
6) Jazz Broadcaster
Alyn Shipton
Mike Chadwick
Sarah Ward
7) Jazz Publication
jazzreloaded.com
Jazzwise
thejazzbreakfast.wordpress.com
8) Jazz Education
Nikki Iles
Orphy Robinson
Richard Michael
9) Services to Jazz
Brian Blain
Celia Greenwood
Val Wilmer
10) Special Award
Ronnie Scott’s on its 50th Anniversary
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Awards on the night
1) Best Gaffe
John Prescott (who else, you might ask?)
“On June 21st we’ll be electing a new sleeper………I mean speaker.”
2) Shortest acceptance speeches
First equal, and much appreciated: Ryan Quigley and Sam Crockatt.
3) Most touching acceptance speech
Kevin Le Gendre, explaining how lucky to do a job he loves, and paying sincere tribute to his father, far less fortunate
4) Best mimic
Richard Michael’s imitation of a Cowdenbeath teenager refusing to take any nonsense from a row of educational suits.
5) Best Yahboo moment
Richard Wheatly of JazzFM talking about his 500,000 audience numbers:
“That’s one in the eye for Smooth and one in the bank for Jazz.”
6) Prize for comic timing
Liane Carroll, presenting an award:
“Thank you all SO much..(thinks) ..Oh no, I haven’t won anything”
7) Getting carried away adlibbing Award
Paul Gambaccini announcing his engagement to Helen Mayhew.
8) Special always the bridesmaid/thank you for turning up Award
Mark Doffman of the Spin in Oxford. Fourth time nominee….
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Here’s the release from PPL with notes about the winners
http://www.ppluk.com/en/News–Events/Latest-News/WINNERS-ANNOUNCED-FOR-2009-PARLIAMENTARY-JAZZ-AWARDS/
And here’s an ice-cold counterblast to the music industry lobby from Vic Keegan in today’s Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/21/victor-keegan-music-industry
I wonder if there will be one next year, with the upheavals going on and articles on a few of the MPs involved. If not, then what sort of celebration of UK jazz is left?