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| ‘This award makes me want to go home and practice.’ Pat Metheny receiving the PRS Gold Award Photo by John L Walters |
FULL LIST OF 2018 WINNERS AND NOMINEES
Breakthrough Act of the Year – Sponsored by Yamaha
WINNER: Nubya Garcia
Ezra Collective
Rob Luft
Soul Artist of the Year – Sponsored by RCS
WINNER: Moonchild
Jordan Rakei
Leroy Hutson
UK Jazz Act of the Year (Public Vote) – Sponsored by Cambridge Audio
WINNER: Ezra Collective
Dinosaur
Kansas Smitty’s House Band
Digital Initiative of the Year
WINNER: Esperanza Spalding: Exposure
Jacob Collier: I Harm U
Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club: Live Streaming
Instrumentalist of the Year – Sponsored by Grange Hotels
WINNER: Evan Parker
Theon Cross
Yazz Ahmed
Blues Artist of the Year – Sponsored by British Airways
WINNER: Robert Cray
Lucky Peterson
Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’
Jazz Innovation of the Year – Sponsored by Mishcon De Reya
WINNER: Shabaka Hutchings
Carleen Anderson: Cage Street Memorial
Joe Armon-Jones and Maxwell Owin: Idiom
Vocalist of the Year – Sponsored by Lateralise
WINNER: Zara McFarlane
Alice Zawadzki
Liane Carroll
International Jazz Artist of the Year – Sponsored by Oris Watches
WINNER: Cécile McLorin Salvant
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
Thundercat
Album of the Year (Public Vote) – Sponsored by Arqiva
WINNER: Thundercat – Drunk 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
Live Experience of the Year (Public Vote) – Sponsored by Rathbones
WINNER: Ronnie Scott’s presents Ezra Collective – EFG London Jazz Festival at Islington Assembly Hall
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 Zeffirellis 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
PPL Lifetime Achievement Award
WINNER: Dame Cleo Laine
Impact Award
George Benson
PRS For Music Gold Award
WINNER: Pat Metheny
Categories: miscellaneous
Glad Evan Parker gets some recognition.
Some of the other!! Can only conclude Jazz FM does not get out much!
Here is Chris Gilvear's account of the ceremony drawing attention to the Windrush generation and how their plight ran through the occasion Link Here