Nominations announced for the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2024
The nominations have today been announced for the 2024 Parliamentary Jazz Awards. The Awards, are organised by the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Group (APPJG) and supported by music licensing company PPL. The recipients of the 2024 Parliamentary Jazz Awards will be announced on Tuesday 29th October 2024. The Parliamentary Awards celebrate and recognise the vibrancy, diversity, breadth and talent of the jazz scene throughout the United Kingdom.
The award categories reflect the ever-increasing scope of talent from within the UK’s jazz scene: Jazz Vocalist of the Year; Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year; Jazz Album of the Year; Jazz Ensemble of the Year; Jazz Newcomer of the Year; Jazz Venue of the Year; Jazz Media Award; Jazz Education Award; and the Services to Jazz Award.
Following the online public vote for the Awards, the shortlist was then voted upon by a selection panel, that represent a broad cross-section of backgrounds united in their passion and knowledge of jazz. The winners, chosen by judging members of the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Group (APPJG), will be announced on Tuesday 29th October 2024.
Chi Onwurah MP, Chair of APPJG, said: “These awards are a great opportunity to celebrate the talents and energies of the great musicians, educators, promoters, record labels, jazz organisations, blogs, jazz magazines and journalists who helped kept jazz flourishing. These shortlists demonstrate the wealth of talent and commitment that exists in the British jazz scene. Now in its 19th year, the Parliamentary Jazz Awards honour the best of British jazz. MPs and Peers in the All Party Group are grateful to PPL for supporting the event.”
Peter Leathem OBE, Chief Executive Officer of PPL said: “PPL is delighted to support the 2024 Parliamentary Jazz Awards. The shortlist reflects both the phenomenal jazz talent we have here in the UK and the community built around them in the nations and regions. Congratulations to all the nominees on their success to date.”
The full list of nominees is as follows:
Jazz Vocalist of the Year
Emma Smith
Anita Wardell
Liane Carroll
Imogen Ryall
Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year
Emma Rawicz
Deschanel Gordon
Ross Stanley
Jazz Album of the Year
Yussef Dayes “Black Classical Music”
Zoe Rahman “Colour Of Sound”
corto alto “Bad With Names”
Imogen Ryall “Sings The Charlie Mingus/Joni Mitchell Songbook”
Jazz Ensemble of the Year
Blue Lab Beats
Five Way Split
Alina Bzhezhinska’s HipHarpCollective
Jazz Newcomer of the Year
Alex Clarke
Amy Gadiaga
Donovan Haffner
Ife Ogunjobi
Jazz Venue of the Year
Café Oto
Swansea Jazz Club
91 Living Room
Verdict Brighton
Jazz Media Award
Richard Williams
Kevin Le Gendre
Gilles Peterson
Jazz Education Award
Paula Gardiner
York Music Forum
Nikki Yeoh
Services to Jazz Award
Joe Paice
George Nelson – Moment’s Notice
Jean Toussaint
Ends
11th August 2024
For further information please contact:
Chris Hodgkins
Tel: 0750 764 9077
Email: chris.hodgkins3@googlemail.com
Notes to editors
The All Party Parliamentary Jazz Group (APPJG) currently has over 73 members from the House of Commons and House of Lords across all political parties. Their aim is to encourage wider and deeper enjoyment of jazz, to increase Parliamentarians’ understanding of the jazz industry and issues surrounding it, to promote jazz as a musical form and to raise its profile inside and outside Parliament. The Group’s officers as at the Inaugaral Meeting on 23rd July 2024 are the Chair, Chi Onwurah MP and Deputy Chair, Lord Mann. The Officers are Jo White MP and Lord Crathorne.
The Secretary is Chris Hodgkins with the assistance of Simon Jennings, Will Riley-Smith and Meg Richards of NorthPoint Strategy and Andrew Lansley. The Secretary operates on a strictly pro bono basis and no expenses of any kind are paid to the Secretariate. The contact address is: admin@appjag.org
For further details of the Group including recent minutes and please see: https://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/members/apg/
All-Party Parliamentary Groups are informal groups of Members of both Houses with a common interest in particular issues. The views expressed in this report are those of the group. This is not an official publication of the House of Commons or the House of Lords. It has not been approved by either House or its committees.
About PPL
PPL is the UK music industry’s collective management organisation (CMO) for performers and recording rightsholders, founded in 1934. We license recorded music in the UK when it is played in public (bars, nightclubs, shops, offices, etc.) or broadcast (BBC, commercial radio, commercial TV, etc.) and we work to ensure that revenue flows back to both our own members and those of our international CMO partners. Our members include both independent and major record companies, together with performers ranging fromemerging grassroots artists through to established session musicians and globally renowned artists.
In 2023, PPL’s revenue was £283.5 million, the highest in the organisation’s 90-year history, and we paid closeto 165,000 performers and recording rights holders.PPL’s public performance licensing is carried out on our behalf by PPL PRS Ltd, the joint venture between PPL and PRS for Music. Through a network of agreements with CMOs around the world, we also collect performance rights royalties internationally when music is played overseas in public and used on TV, radio and some online streaming services, as well as for private copying. International royalties are an increasinglyimportant revenue stream for performers and recording rightsholders.
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