Dave Brubeck To Receive BBC Lifetime Achievement Award
Friday, June 8, 2007
Veteran pianist, composer and educator Dave Brubeck is to be this year's recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Jazz Awards to be held next month. A full list of the nominations and some winners for this year's awards was made at a special concert last night when some of the nominees, including Claire Martin, Soweto Kinch and Martin Taylor performed short selections. The announcement that Dave Brubeck is to receive this special award was made by drummer Billy Cobham who then joined Kinch and Guy Barker plus rhythm section for a rendition of Thelonious Monk's 'Off Minor'.
The Services To Jazz award this year will be presented to bassist and educator Gary Crosby, the force behind Tomorrow's Warriors and Jazz Jamaica, while the international award will go to French-American singer Madeleine Peyroux. The other nominations announced were: Best Album: Tom Cawley’s Curios, Hidden; Neil Cowley Trio, Displaced; Fraud, Fraud; Soweto Kinch, A Life In the Day of B19; Byron Wallen, Meeting Ground; Abram Wilson, From the Ferris Wheel to the Modern Day Delta.
Radio 2 Jazz Artist of the Year: Madeleine Peyroux, Curtis Stigers and Allen Toussaint Radio 2 Heart of Jazz Award: Martin Taylor, Georgie Fame and Abram Wilson Jazz Line-Up Best Band: Finn Peter’s Finntet, Stan Tracey Octet and Byron Wallen’s Indigo Jazz on 3 Innovation Award: Tom Bancroft, Soweto Kinch and Evan Parker. Instrumentalist Award: Liam Noble, Gwilym Simock and Liam Noble Best Vocalist Award: Claire Martin, Ian Shaw and Norma Winstone Rising Star Award: James Allsopp, Tom Arthurs and Simon Spillett