Artist News Awards

Jazz FM Awards presented

By Chris Cooke | Published on Thursday 11 June 2015

So it was the second ever Jazz FM Awards in that there London last night, and what a night it was. There was jazz. There were awards. And plenty of frequency modulation, I’m sure. Though given we’ve just been told by Victoria Milan – a website that helps married people organise an affair, because that’s a thing – that jazz fans are most likely to be cheaters, who knows what happened at the end of the party (metal-heads were least likely to cheat, in case you wondered).

But enough cheating, here are some winners…

UK Jazz Act Of The Year: GoGo Penguin
International Jazz Artist of the Year: Gregory Porter
Breakthrough Act: Bill Laurance

Instrumentalist of the Year: Shabaka Hutchings
Vocalist Of The Year: Zara McFarlane
Blues Artist Of The Year: Dr John
Soul Artist Of The Year: Jarrod Lawson
Jazz Innovation Of The Year: Jason Moran

Album Of The Year: Dianne Reeves – Beautiful Life
Live Experience Of The Year: Loose Tubes at Cheltenham Jazz Festival

PPL Lifetime Achievement: Hugh Masekela