The nominees have been announced for the Arqiva backed 2018 Jazz FM Awards

The nominations for the 2018 Jazz FM Awards have been announced.

Bassist extraordinaire Thundercat, formidable vocalist C cile McLorin Salvant, genre-bending bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding, and pioneering trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah are all up for awards alongside the cream of the thriving UK scene including Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia, Jacob Collier and Yazz Ahmed, as announced at this weeks nominations event held in London at Melomania at Cambridge Audio'.

Recognising the best emerging new artists, contemporary jazz icons and established stars from across the worlds of jazz, soul and blues, the Jazz FM Awards are now in their fifth outing and will celebrate what has been a remarkable year for jazz which has seen the genre continue to enjoy widespread critical acclaim and a huge resurgence in popularity. The ceremony will take place at Shoreditch Town Hall in London on International Jazz Day on 30 April.

As well as the awards presentation, which will be hosted by Jazz FM presenters Chris Philips and Jez Nelson, the night will feature several performances from a range of acclaimed artists led by rising star pianist and MD of this year's Jazz FM Awards House Band, Ashley Henry. Cecile McLorin Salvant, who was recently honoured at the Grammys, is the first artist confirmed to perform at the event and will showcase material from her 2017 release Dreams and Daggers. The US powerhouse vocalist has been nominated for two awards this year under the categories of International Jazz Act of the Year and the Arqiva supported Album of the Year, with the latter decided by public vote.

The recipients of the special award categories - PPL Lifetime Achievement Award, PRS For Music Gold Award and Impact Award - will be announced ahead of the ceremony. In previous years, these special award-winners have included Oscar-winning film director Damien Chazelle, Georgie Fame, Quincy Jones, Gregory Porter and the late Hugh Masekela.

Public voting is open now at www.jazzfmawards.com and will close on Monday 2nd April.

Richard Johnston, Head of Commercial Radio at Arqiva said:

Were delighted to be sponsoring the Album of the Year Award at the Jazz FM awards, which is now in its fifth year.

Digital radio is bringing more and more variety to listeners and its fantastic that Jazz FM are bringing this genre to a national audience, broadcasting in high fidelity DAB+ to listeners across the UK.

The Jazz FM Awards 2018 is a partnership between Jazz FM and Serious and is made possible with the support of Mishcon de Reya, PPL, PRS For Music, Rathbones, Oris Watches, Grange Hotels, Lateralize, Arqiva, Yamaha, RCS, Shoreditch Town Hall, Cambridge Audio, Denbies Wine Estate, Warsteiner, Sharpstream and British Airways.

Full list of 2018 Nominees:

Breakthrough Act of the Year

Ezra Collective

Nubya Garcia

Rob Luft

Soul Artist of the Year

Sponsored by RCS

Jordan Rakei

Leroy Hutson

Moonchild

UK Jazz Act of the Year (Public Vote)

Sponsored by Cambridge Audio

Dinosaur

Ezra Collective

Kansas Smitty's House Band

Digital Initiative of the Year

Esperanza Spalding: Exposure

Jacob Collier: I Harm U

Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club: Live Streaming

Instrumentalist of the Year

Sponsored by Grange Hotels

Evan Parker

Theon Cross

Yazz Ahmed

Blues Artist of the Year

Lucky Peterson

Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo'

Robert Cray

Jazz Innovation of the Year

Sponsored by Mishcon de Reya

Carleen Anderson: Cage Street Memorial

Joe Armon-Jones and Maxwell Owin: Idiom

Shabaka Hutchings

Vocalist of the Year

Sponsored by Lateralize

Alice Zawadzki

Liane Carroll

Zara McFarlane

International Jazz Artist of the Year

Sponsored by Oris Watches

C cile McLorin Salvant

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah

Thundercat

Album of the Year (Public Vote)

Sponsored by Arqiva

Blue Note All-Stars Our Point of View

C cile McLorin Salvant Dreams and Daggers

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah Diaspora

Denys Baptiste The Late Trane

Phronesis The Behemoth

Thundercat Drunk

Live Experience of the Year (Public Vote)

Sponsored by Rathbones

A Concert for Alice and John - Pharoah Sanders Quartet, Denys Baptiste and Alina Bzhezhinska EFG London Jazz Festival at The Barbican

An evening with Dave Holland Ambleside Days Festival at Zeffirellis Cinema

Jazz Re:Fest at Southbank Centre

Makaya McCraven featuring Theon Cross Trio and Jaimie Branch Fly or Die Ensemble - CHICAGOXLONDON Day 1 at Total Refreshment Centre

Randolph Matthews Jazz in the Round at Love Supreme Festival

Ronnie Scott's presents Ezra Collective EFG London Jazz Festival at Islington Assembly Hall

PPL Lifetime Achievement Award

TBA

Impact Award

TBA

PRS For Music Gold Award

TBA

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