Category: Radio 2; Radio 3
Date: 08.06.2006
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91Èȱ¬ Radio 2 and 91Èȱ¬
Radio 3 are preparing to celebrate their sixth annual 91Èȱ¬
Jazz Awards.
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This year's awards will feature revered names from
the industry including producer/arranger and global jazz superstar Quincy
Jones, Jools Holland - the UK's most popular
pianist and bandleader, and the multi-platinum selling Jamie
Cullum.
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This year the 91Èȱ¬ is also delighted to welcome back
broadcaster, writer and authority on music Paul
Gambaccini as host
for the evening.
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The 2006 list of nominees features a plethora of popular jazz names including Polar
Bear, Clare Teal, Tim Garland, Georgie
Fame, Jason Yarde and many more.
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The legendary Quincy Jones will be awarded the Lifetime
Achievement Jazz Award, and Ian Carr will be recognised for his contribution
to the industry with the Services to Jazz
In The UK Award.
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The 91Èȱ¬ plays an integral role in raising the profile of jazz and the 91Èȱ¬ Jazz Awards have become one of the most important events in the calendar of the jazz community.
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Every week Radio 2 and Radio 3 commit many hours to
broadcasting a diverse range of jazz, incorporating cutting-edge,
contemporary artists alongside some of the genre's legendary players.
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This year five awards have been voted for by listeners of 91Èȱ¬ radio. A combined bbc.co.uk poll and phone poll has decided the winners of the 91Èȱ¬
Radio 2 Best of Jazz Award, 91Èȱ¬ Radio 2 Jazz Artist
of the Year, as well as the 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3 Jazz On
3 Innovation Award, 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3 Jazz Line-Up Best
Band Award and this year's Best Album Award.
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Votes were cast from the 25 March until 14 April
(details on bbc.co.uk/jazzawards).
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The nominees in the 2006 91Èȱ¬ Jazz Awards are:
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Radio 2 Jazz Artist of the Year
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The artist or group who has done most to further
the cause of popular jazz-making on both Radio 2 and the wider jazz stage.
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Nominations:
- Jools Holland
- Georgie Fame
- Elaine Delmar
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The Best of Jazz Award
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The artist or group playing in
an accessible style who has kept the music at the forefront of
public attention and who continues to find inspiration in familiar
harmonies, melodies and styles as found, for example, in mainstream,
swing, bop and traditional jazz amongst others.
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Nominations:
- Bobby Wellins
- Anita Wardell
- Ray Gelato
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Radio 3 Jazz Line-Up Award for Best Band
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For the group making the jazz headlines over the past
12 months.
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Nominations:
- John Taylor Trio
- Ronnie Rae Quintet
- Dennis Rollins Badbone & Co
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Radio 3 Jazz on 3 Award for Innovation or Achievement in New Music
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For the artist who has made an outstanding contribution
to reinventing and refreshing jazz.
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Nominations:
- Tim Garland's Lighthouse Project
- Jason Yarde
- Spring Heel Jack
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Album Of The Year
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For the new jazz album, released April
2005 to April 2006, judged most likely to stay on the turntables
for a long time.
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Nominations:
- Held on the Tips of Fingers - Polar Bear
- Last Chance Disco - Acoustic Ladyland
- Max - Partisans
- Angel of the Presence - John Taylor
- Yeah! - Alan Barnes
- The Lyric - Jim Tomlinson featuring Stacey Kent
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The Rising Star, Best
Instrumentalist and Best
Vocalist categories are decided by a selection of industry
figures.
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Rising Star
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Nominations:
- Andrew McCormack
- Julia Biel
- Polly Gibbons
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Best Instrumentalist
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Nominations:
- Alan Barnes
- Seb Rochford
- Tim Garland
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Best Vocalist
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Nominations:
- Ian Shaw
- Jacqui Dankworth
- Clare Teal
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Services To Jazz In The UK
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The Services to Jazz Award 2006 will be presented to trumpeter, band leader, writer and broadcaster Ian Carr, a man who has dedicated over 40 years of his life to pioneering the many movements of British jazz.
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During his highly respected playing career, Carr was
responsible for the formation of the Rendell-Carr quintet with Don
Rendell and the ground-breaking jazz-rock band Nucleus as well as
being a highly sought after sideman.
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He has written biographies of
jazz musicians Keith Jarrett and Miles Davis and is the co-author
of reference works such as The Rough Guide to Jazz.
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Lifetime Achievement
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The 91Èȱ¬ is delighted to present the 91Èȱ¬ Jazz Lifetime Achievement Award to Quincy
Delight Jones Jr, better known to his friends and the industry as 'Q'.
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In the Fifties the trumpeter started arranging and
recording with a diverse range of artists including Sarah Vaughan,
Ray Charles, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dinah Washington and Cannonball
Adderly.
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He is the all-time most nominated Grammy artist, with
a total of 76 nominations and 26 awards, and has also received
an Emmy Award, seven Oscar nominations, and the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts.
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He has written scores for many blockbuster films including
Kill Bill and The Italian Job (original). Quincy became the
most sought after producer when Michael Jackson's first solo album
Off the Wall sold eight million copies making Jackson an international
superstar.
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The pair teamed again in 1982 to make Thriller.
It became the best selling album of all time, selling over 30
million copies around the globe and spawning an unprecedented six
Top Ten singles, including Billie Jean, Beat It and Wanna Be
Startin' Somethin'.
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Jones
also produced the popular NBC-TV series Fresh Prince
of Bel Air. There is nothing that this man has touched which
has not turned to gold. The 91Èȱ¬ is delighted to honour him this year
with The Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Notes to Editors
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The 91Èȱ¬ Jazz Awards 2006 Double CD will available to buy on 26 June 2006 (on Specific Jazz). It will be available nationwide and includes tracks from all of this year's nominees.
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91Èȱ¬ Jazz Awards broadcast details:
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Jazz on 3
Radio 3, Friday 14 July, 11.30pm
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Jazz Line-Up
Radio 3, Saturday 15 July, 5.00pm
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91Èȱ¬ Jazz Awards (full concert)
Radio 2, Monday 17 July, 8.00pm
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There will be more information on the awards and a chance to listen again at bbc.co.uk/radio2 and bbc.co.uk/radio3.
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Producers of the Awards
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Public tickets for the event are available from Monday 12 June via bbc.co.uk/tickets or
by phoning:
- Radio 2: 08700 100 200
- Radio 3: 08700 100 300
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91Èȱ¬ Radio 2 Jazz Programmes
- Michael Parkinson's Sunday Supplement
Sundays at
11.00am
- Malcolm Laycock Show
Sundays 10.00pm
- Humphrey Lyttelton's Best of Jazz
Mondays 8.00pm
- Courtney Pine's Jazz Crusade
Mondays 9.00pm (back
on air 4 September)
- The Jools Holland Show
Mondays 9.30pm (back on
air late November)
- Big Band Special
Mondays 9.00pm
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91Èȱ¬ Radio 3 Jazz Programmes
- Jazz Legends
Fridays 4.00pm
- Jazz On 3
Fridays 11.30pm
- Jazz Line-Up
Saturdays 4.00pm
- Jazz Record Requests
Saturdays 5.00pm
- Jazz File
Saturdays 6.00pm
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