The shortlistees for the Contemporary Jazz Composition Award at the British Composer Awards are:

Iris Nonet by Trish Clowes

Lifelines by John Surman

Songs to the North Sky by Tim Garland

Other people connected to British jazz up for awards are Richard Rodney Bennett who has been nominated posthumously for the Choral composition for Colloquy with God , and a member of Laura Cole’s Metamorphic, Kerry Andrew who has been nominated for a Making Music Award for Screech.

The Awards bash is on Tuesday 3rd December at  Goldsmiths Hall. Radio 3 will broadcast the results on  Saturday 7 December on the show Hear and Now. Sponsor is PRS for Music, producer is BASCA, media partner BBC Radio 3. www.britishcomposerawards.com