Jamie Cullum, Acker Bilk and Oscar Petersen were amongst winners at the BBC Jazz Awards held at the Mermaid Theatre in London at the weekend. Cullum won the listener-voted Radio 2 Artist of the year, Canadian Oscar Petersen got a lifetime achievement award, whilst Acker Bilk was the inaugural recipient of a new special award, the Gold Award. Other recipients included Acoustic Ladyland who won Best Band Award, singer and pianist Liane Carroll who won two awards, best vocalist and best jazz artist, and Gwilym Simcock, who won the Rising Star Award.
Jul 5, 2005
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Cullum, Bilk and Petersen pick up jazz awards
Jamie Cullum, Acker Bilk and Oscar Petersen were among the winners at the BBC Jazz Awards held at the Mermaid Theatre in London.