VOTING OPENS FOR THE BBC JAZZ AWARDS 2008

Voting has opened for the 2008 BBC Jazz Awards once again celebrating the best of British jazz. The nominees have been chosen by a panel of industry experts and the public are invited to cast their votes in five of the nine categories at http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/jazzawards2008
The winners will be announced on Monday 21st July at London’s Mermaid Theatre.
This year’s nominations are:

1. BBC Radio 2 Artist Of The Year Award : NOW OPEN TO PUBLIC VOTE
Guy Barker
Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine
Humphrey Lyttelton

2. BBC Radio 2 Heart Of Jazz Award: NOW OPEN TO PUBLIC VOTE
Guy Barker
Ray Gelato
Tommy Smith

3. BBC Radio 3 Jazz Line-Up Best Ensemble Award : NOW OPEN TO PUBLIC VOTE
Empirical
Jazz Warriors - Afropeans
Tom Cawley's Curios

4. BBC Radio 3 Jazz On 3 Innovation Award : NOW OPEN TO PUBLIC VOTE
Basquiat Strings
Corey Mwamba Argentum
Evan Parker
Fraud

5. Best Album Award: NOW OPEN TO PUBLIC VOTE
Accident & Insurgency – Ambulance
Empirical – Empirical
The Amadeus Project – Guy Barker
Perception – Gwilym Simcock
Sienna Red – Simon Spillett
All Is Yes - This Is The Blessing

The winners will be announced online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/jazzawards2008/, highlights of the BBC Jazz Awards will broadcast on BBC Radio 2, and Jazz on 3 will broadcast a celebratory programme with contributions from the winners on Saturday 26th July on BBC Radio 3.
The BBC Jazz Awards are jointly produced by BBC Radio 2 and Radio 3.

BBC Radio 2 Jazz Programmes:
Big Band Special, Mondays at 10:00pm
Jools Holland, Mondays 10:30pm
Malcolm Laycock, Sundays at 10:00pm
BBC Radio 3 Jazz Programmes:
Jazz Library – Fridays at 10.30pm
Jazz On 3 – Fridays at 11.30pm
Jazz Line-Up – Saturdays at 4.00pm
Jazz Record Requests – Saturdays at 5.30pm