The Parliamentary Jazz Awards in the

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are organised by the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group (APPJAG) at the

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. The group consists of over a hundred members drawn from across the UK political parties. The awards were the brainchild

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MP), a long-time enthusiast of the jazz genre who was concerned that there was a lack of national recognition for the work of jazz performers and venues across the UK. Blizzard was involved with organising and running the awards for 11 years. Also supporting the awards are Jazz Services, Jazz UK, ''

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'',Jazz breaking news: Voting Now Open For 2010 All Parliamentary Jazz Awards
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'', 20 January 2010. the UK Musicians' Union jazz section, and PPL. There are nine categories:Parliamentary Jazz Awards Winners Are Announced
''Jazzwise'', 21 May 2009. # Jazz Musician of the Year # Jazz Ensemble of the Year # Jazz Venue of the Year # Jazz Journalist of the Year # Jazz CD of the Year (released during the previous year by a band or musician) # Jazz Broadcaster of the Year # Jazz Publication of the Year # Jazz Education Award (for a person who has contributed to jazz in education) # Services to Jazz Award In 2009, a special award was presented to

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, as a tribute to the 50th anniversary of the well-known

club that year.

Winners

2021

* Jazz Vocalist of the Year: Georgia Mancio * Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year: Nubya Garcia * Jazz Album of the Year: Callum Au and Claire Martin “Songs and Stories” Stunt Records * Jazz Ensemble of the Year:

KOKOROKO Kokoroko (stylised as KOKOROKO) is a London-based eight-piece musical group led by Sheila Maurice-Grey, playing a fusion of jazz and Afrobeat. In February 2019 they were named "ones to watch" by the Guardian, after their track "Abusey Junction" ga ...

* Jazz Newcomer of the Year: Jas Kayser * Jazz Venue of the Year: Peggy’s Skylight * Jazz Media Award: Women In Jazz Media * Jazz Education Award: The Original UK Summer School * Services to Jazz Award:

Norma Winstone Norma Ann Winstone MBE (born 23 September 1941) is an English jazz singer and lyricist. With a career spanning more than 50 years, she is best known for her wordless improvisations. Musicians with whom she has worked include Michael Garrick, ...

* Lockdown Innovation Award: The Globe – Newcastle upon Tyne * Special APPJAG Award:

Digby Fairweather Richard John Charles "Digby" Fairweather (born 25 April 1946) is a British jazz cornetist, author and broadcaster. Biography Before becoming a professional musician, Fairweather was a librarian and has retained an interest in jazz bibliograph ...

, Lord Colwyn

2020

* Jazz Vocalist of the Year: Cherise Adams-Burnett * Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year: Sarah Tandy * Jazz Album of the Year: ‘Finding Home’ – Kate Williams Four Plus Three meets Georgia Mancio * Jazz Ensemble of the Year:

Nikki Iles Nikki Anne Iles ( née Burnham; born 16 May 1963) is a British jazz composer, pianist and educator. Early life Iles was born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, on 16 May 1963. She started her musical education at primary school, where she learnt to ...

Big Band * Jazz Newcomer of the Year: Luca Manning * Jazz Venue of the Year: PizzaExpress Jazz Club * Jazz Media Award: Corey Mwamba “Freeness” BBC Radio 3 * Jazz Education Award: Jon Eno BEM * Services to Jazz Award: Blow The Fuse * Special APPJAG Award:

2019

* Jazz Vocalist of the Year: Zoe Gilby * Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year: Josephine Davies * Jazz Album of the Year: ''Turas,'' Fergus McCreadie * Jazz Ensemble of the Year:

Ezra Collective Ezra Collective is a British jazz quintet composed of drummer and bandleader Femi Koleoso, bassist TJ Koleoso, keyboardist Joe Armon-Jones, trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi, and tenor saxophonist James Mollison. The group fuses elements of afro-beat, hip-h ...

* Jazz Venue of the Year Jazz: Watermill Jazz, Dorking * Jazz Newcomer of the Year: Xhosa Cole * Jazz Media Award: Ian Mann * Jazz Education Award:

*Services to Jazz Award: Cleo Laine *APPJAG Special Award: Henry Lowther

2018

* Jazz Vocalist of the Year: Ian Shaw * Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year: Arun Ghosh * Jazz Album of the Year: ''The Late Train,''

Denys Baptiste Denys Baptiste (born 1969) is an English jazz musician from London, England, where he was born to St Lucian parents. A graduate of Tomorrow's Warriors, Baptiste plays tenor and soprano saxophone in addition to composing. Baptiste played with ...

* Jazz Ensemble of the Year: Alison Rayner Quartet * Jazz Venue of the Year Jazz: Jazz at the Lescar,

Sheffield Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire a ...

* Jazz Newcomer of the Year: Shirley Tetteh * Jazz Media Award: Lance Liddle * Jazz Education Award:

Jean Toussaint Jean Toussaint (born July 27, 1960) is an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist. Life and career Toussaint was born in Aruba, Dutch Antilles, and was raised in Saint Thomas and New York City. He learned to play calypso as a child and att ...

*Services to Jazz Award: Jill Rodger *APPJAG Special Award: Gary Crosby OBE

2017

* Jazz Vocalist of the Year:

Cleveland Watkiss Cleveland Watkiss, (born 21 October 1959), is a British vocalist, actor, and composer. Biography Cleveland Watkiss was born in Hackney, East London, to Jamaican parents, and was one of nine children. He is the older brother of pianist Trevo ...

* Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year:

Shabaka Hutchings Shabaka Hutchings is a British jazz musician, composer and bandleader. He leads the bands Sons of Kemet and Shabaka and the Ancestors. He is also a member of The Comet Is Coming, performing under the stage name King Shabaka. Hutchings has p ...

* Jazz Album of the Year: '' Together As One'', Dinosaur * Jazz Ensemble of the Year:

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* Jazz Venue of the Year Jazz:

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Jazz Festival * Jazz Newcomer of the Year: Nerija * Jazz Media Award: Chris Philips * Jazz Education Award: Tomorrow's Warriors * Services to Jazz Award:

Tony Dudley-Evans Tony Dudley-Evans is Jazz Adviser to the Jazzlines programme at Town Hall/Symphony Hall Birmingham and Programme Adviser to the Cheltenham Jazz Festival. He now sees himself as a jazz promoter, but he was for many years a British linguist and expe ...

* APPJAG Special Awards:

Jim Mullen Jim Mullen (born 26 November 1945) is a Scottish, Glasgow-born jazz guitarist with a distinctive style, like Wes Montgomery before him, picking with the thumb rather than a plectrum. Biography Jim Mullen was guitarist with Pete Brown & Piblo ...

2016

* Jazz Vocalist of the Year: Emilia Mårtensson * Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year: Alexander Hawkins * Jazz Album of the Year: ''Let It Be Told'', Julian Argüelles * Jazz Ensemble of the Year: Empirical * Jazz Venue of the Year Jazz: Seven Jazz Leeds * Jazz Newcomer of the Year: Binker and Moses * Jazz Media Award:

Jez Nelson Jeremy Nelson MBE (born 1 April 1964) is a jazz broadcaster and television producer. Education Nelson was educated at Dulwich College (a boys' independent school in Dulwich, South London) and at King's College London, where he first began to D ...

, BBC Jazz on 3 * Jazz Education Award: Tommy Smith * Services to Jazz Award: Mary Greig * APPJAG Special Awards:

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and

Evan Parker Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944) is a British tenor and soprano saxophone player who plays free improvisation. Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free ja ...

2015

* Jazz Vocalist of the Year:

* Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year: Laura Jurd * Jazz Album of the Year: ''Swamp'' by Partisans * Jazz Ensemble of the Year: Engines Orchestra * Jazz Venue of the Year: St Ives Jazz Club * Jazz Newcomer of the Year: Peter Edwards * Jazz Media Award: London Jazz News website * Jazz Education Award:

National Youth Jazz Orchestra The National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO) is a British jazz orchestra founded in 1965 by Bill Ashton. In 2010. Mark Armstrong took over as Music Director of the flagship performing band, and Artistic Director of the organisation; Bill Ashton becam ...

* Services to Jazz Award: Chris Hodgkins * Special Award:

Peter Ind Peter Ind (20 July 1928 – 20 August 2021) was a British jazz double bassist and record producer. Early life Ind was born in Middlesex. His father was a builder. Ind began to learn the violin at the age of eight and played in his school orches ...

2014

* Jazz Vocalist of the Year – Christine Tobin * Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year –

Arun Ghosh Arun Ghosh (born 7 July 1941) is a former Indian football player who represented India internationally. He also played club football for both the Kolkata giants Mohun Bagan AC and East Bengal Club. Playing career He was part of the team that pl ...

* Jazz Album of the Year – ''Live at Cheltenham 13 Jazz Festival'', Troykestra * Jazz Ensemble of the Year – Beats & Pieces Big Band * Jazz Newcomer of the Year – Phil Meadows * Jazz Venue of the Year – EFG London Jazz Festival * Jazz Media Award – The

Jamie Cullum Jamie Cullum (born 20 August 1979) is an English jazz-pop singer, songwriter and radio presenter. Although primarily a vocalist and pianist, he also accompanies himself on other instruments, including guitar and drums. He has recorded nine stu ...

Show * Jazz Education Award – Issie Barratt, National Youth Jazz Collective * Services to Jazz Award –

David Redfern David Redfern (7 June 1936 – 22 October 2014) was an English photographer specialising in music photography. He worked as a photographer for 45 years and had over 10,000 pictures in his collection including photos of the Beatles and Jimi He ...

* Special Award –

Chris Barber Donald Christopher "Chris" Barber OBE (17 April 1930 – 2 March 2021) was an English jazz musician, best known as a bandleader and trombonist. He helped many musicians with their careers and had a UK top twenty trad jazz hit with "Petite Fle ...

2013

* Jazz Musician of the Year:

Guy Barker Guy Jeffrey Barker, (born 26 December 1957) is an English jazz trumpeter and composer. Early life Barker was born in Chiswick, London, the son of an actress and a stuntman. He started playing the trumpet at the age of twelve, and within a yea ...

* Jazz Album of the Year: '' Saltash Bells'',

John Surman John Douglas Surman (born 30 August 1944) is an English jazz saxophone, bass clarinet, and synthesizer player, and composer of free jazz and modal jazz, often using themes from folk music. He has composed and performed music for dance performanc ...

(ECM) * Jazz Ensemble of the Year: Impossible Gentlemen * Jazz Venue Award: The Vortex Jazz Club, London * Jazz Journalist of the Year: Rob Adams * Jazz Broadcaster of the Year: Mike Chadwick * Jazz Publication of the Year: '' Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert'', Catherine Tackley – * Jazz Education Award: Nick Smart * Services to Jazz Award:

Stan Tracey Stanley William Tracey (30 December 1926 – 6 December 2013) was a British jazz pianist and composer, whose most important influences were Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Tracey's best known recording is the 1965 album '' Jazz Suite Inspi ...

* Special Award:

Elaine Delmar Elaine Delmar (born 13 September 1939) is a British singer and actress, with a long career in stage acting, music recording and concert performances. Born in Harpenden, she is the daughter of Jamaican jazz trumpeter Leslie "Jiver" Hutchinson. A ...

2012

* Jazz Album of the Year:

Liane Carroll Liane Carroll (born 9 February 1964, London) is an English vocalist, pianist and keyboardist. Jazz critic Dave Gelly of ''The Observer'' has described her as "one of the most stylistically flexible pianists around, with a marvellous, slightl ...

, '' Up and Down''

2011

* Jazz Musician of the Year:

Brian Kellock Brian Kellock (born 1962) is a Scottish jazz pianist. Biography Born in Edinburgh, Kellock graduated with a B Music (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh in 1986. Since then, he has been establishing his position as one of the top piano playe ...

* Jazz Album of the Year: ''Midas'', John Turville * Jazz Ensemble of the Year: Brass Jaw * Jazz Promoter/Venue of the Year: The Hideaway ( Streatham, London) * Jazz Journalist of the Year:

John Fordham John Fordham (died 1425) was Bishop of Durham and Bishop of Ely. Fordham was keeper of the privy seal of Prince Richard from 1376 to 1377 and Dean of Wells before being named Lord Privy Seal in June 1377. He held that office until December 1381 ...

* Jazz Broadcaster of the Year: Paul Barnes * Jazz Publication of the Year: ''Goin' Home: The Uncompromising Life and Music of

Ken Colyer Kenneth Colyer (18 April 1928 – 8 March 1988) was an English jazz trumpeter and cornetist, devoted to New Orleans jazz. His band was also known for skiffle interludes. Biography He was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, but grew up i ...

'' by Mike Pointon, Ray Smith, Martin Colyer * Jazz Education Award: Ian Darrington * Services to Jazz Award:

Coleridge Goode George Coleridge Emerson Goode (29 November 1914 – 2 October 2015) was a British Jamaican-born jazz bassist best known for his long collaboration with alto saxophonist Joe Harriott. Goode was a member of Harriott's innovatory jazz quintet thro ...

* Special Award: Cleo Laine

2010

* Jazz Musician: Mark Lockheart * Jazz CD: ''No Messin'' by the Gareth Lockrane Septet * Jazz Ensemble: the Nigel Price Organ Trio * Jazz Venue: the Jazz Bar,

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* Jazz Journalist: Mike Flynn * Jazz Broadcaster:

Alyn Shipton Alyn Shipton (born 24 November 1953) is an English jazz author, presenter, critic, and jazz bassist. Early life Shipton became interested in jazz in his youth and formally studied cello, but also played double bass in a school jazz band. He pla ...

* Jazz Publication: ''

'' * Jazz Educator: Kathy Dyson * Services to Jazz Award: Brian Blane

2009

* Jazz Musician of the Year: Phil Robson * Jazz CD of the Year: ''Howeird'', The Sam Crockatt Quartet * Jazz Ensemble of the Year: The Ryan Quigley Sextet * Jazz Venue of the Year: Fleece Jazz (

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) * Jazz Journalist of the Year:

Kevin Le Gendre Kevin Le Gendre is a British journalist, broadcaster and author whose work focuses on Black music. He is deputy editor of ''Echoes'' magazine, has written for a wide range of publications, including ''Jazzwise'', ''MusicWeek'', '' Vibrations'', ' ...

* Jazz Broadcaster of the Year: Sarah Ward * Jazz Publication of the Year: jazzreloaded.com * Jazz Education Award: Richard Michael * Services to Jazz Award: Val Wilmer

2008

* Jazz Musician of the Year:

* Jazz CD: ''The Amadeus Project'' –

* Jazz Ensemble – Empirical * Jazz Venue: Tithe Barn, Needham,

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* Jazz Journalist:

* Jazz Broadcaster:

Helen Mayhew Helen Mayhew is a British radio presenter and producer, specialising in jazz music. Mayhew started with the BBC, and then moved to 102.2 Jazz FM at its launch, then rejoined the BBC where she presented her own weekly show, and finally returned t ...

* Jazz Publication: ''

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'' * Jazz Educator: Dennis Rollins * Services to Jazz Award: Paul Pace (of Ray's Jazz)

References

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External links

All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group website
Awards established in 2005 British jazz British music awards Jazz awards 2005 establishments in the United Kingdom Parliament of the United Kingdom