The nominees are announced for the 2022 Jazz FM Awards. The ceremony at which the winners will be announced is at Shoreditch Town Hall on 20 October  2022. The winners of the Gold Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Impact award will be announced later, in the run-up to the ceremony.

There are public votes in two categories (Public voting is open now at www.jazzfmawards.com and via Alexa and will close on Monday 26th September at 6pm):

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PUBLIC VOTE  – UK JAZZ ACT OF THE YEAR 

Blue Lab Beats 

KOKOROKO 

Georgia Cecile 


PUBLIC VOTE  – ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

Cleo Sol – Mother 

Blue Lab Beats – Motherland 

Emma-Jean Thackray – Yellow 

Fergus McCreadie – Forest Floor 

Kurt Elling – SuperBlue 

Robert Glasper – Black Radio III 

OTHER CATEGORIES

BREAKTHROUGH ACT OF THE YEAR 

Chelsea Carmichael

Jasmin Myra

Mica Millar

INTERNATIONAL JAZZ ACT OF THE YEAR 

Lady Blackbird 

Theo Croker 

Trombone Shorty 

SOUL ACT OF THE YEAR sponsored by Boisdale of Canary Wharf

Alex Isley 

Cleo Sol 

Mica Millar 

BLUES ACT OF THE YEAR sponsored by Imagine Cruising

Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram 

Joanne Taylor Shaw 

Mavis Staples and Levon Helm 

VOCALIST OF THE YEAR sponsored by Hampstead Jazz Club and Lateralize Records

Brigitte Beraha 

Georgia Cecile 

Omar 

INSTRUMENTALIST OF THE YEAR 

Emma Rawicz 

Fergus McCreadie 

Mark Kavuma 

THE DIGITAL AWARD 

jazzed 

Summer of Soul 

We Out Here 

INNOVATION AWARD sponsored by Mishcon de Reya

Blue Lab Beats 

Café OTO 

Jazz Is Dead 

NOTE: The Jazz FM Awards 2022 is made possible with the support of PPL and PRS for Music, Mishcon De Reya, Imagine Cruising, Boisdale of Canary Wharf, Hampstead Jazz Club, Lateralize, Savile Row Gin, Shoreditch Town Hall and Lotus.