2022 Jazz Music Awards Nominations & Honorary Awards: Full Listing – Billboard

Saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter is slated to obtain a lifetime achievement award on the inaugural Jazz Music Awards, set for Oct. 22 on the Cobb Vitality Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta.

Shorter, 88, got here to prominence within the late Nineteen Fifties as a member of Artwork Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Within the Sixties, he joined Miles Davis’ quintet after which co-founded the jazz fusion band Climate Report. Shorter, an 11-time Grammy winner, obtained a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy in 2015 and the Polar Music Prize in 2017.

Six different honorary awards might be offered on the Jazz Music Awards, along with eight aggressive awards.

The late pianist and composer McCoy Tyner, who died in 2020, will obtain the Jazz Legend award. Fashionable jazz trumpeter and composer Ambrose Akinmusire will obtain the Jazz Innovator Award; vocalist, composer, and educator Dr. Lenora Helm Hammonds, the Jazz Schooling Award; avant-garde saxophonist and woodwinds participant and composer Henry Threadgill, the Jazz Composer Award; and veteran musician and educator James H. Patterson, the Jazz Impression Award.

The Baylor Project are the highest nominees in aggressive classes, with three nods for his or her album, Generations. The Baylor Venture are four-time Grammy nominees.

Subsequent according to two nominations every are Orrin Evans, Kenny Garrett, Brian Culbertson, Christian McBride and Brandee Youthful.

“We’re honored to acknowledge and current a variety of dynamic and modern artists together with our six award honorees and our 33 nominees,” Wendy F. Williams, creator and government producer of the Jazz Music Awards, mentioned in an announcement. “We’re formally the primary and solely awards present to completely have fun jazz music on a world platform in North America…By recognizing our honorees and nominees, we’re giving thanks for his or her unbelievable artistry that furthers the richness of the jazz custom, which is integral to American music and tradition.”

The Jazz Music Awards will characteristic dwell performances by Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ledisi, Lizz Wright and Jazzmeia Horn. Recording artist and composer Terri Lyne Carrington will function musical director and co-executive producer for the inaugural ceremony.

“The Jazz Music Awards is a essential and essential platform for the worldwide jazz neighborhood,” Carrington mentioned in an announcement. “It’s important that we highlight and have fun artists throughout all hybrids of jazz, lots of whom have been neglected or unsung all through their careers.”

The eligibility interval for the inaugural awards ran from April 1, 2021, via March 31, 2022. There are 4 nominees in most classes, however due to a tie, there are 5 nominees in one of the best duo, group or massive band class. Additionally, one of the best worldwide artist (modern or mainstream) class didn’t obtain sufficient nominations to make the ultimate poll this 12 months.

Tickets to the occasion, with its motto “Celebrating the Spirit of Jazz,” went on sale Monday. For updates on the awards ceremony, go to jazzmusicawards.com.

Right here’s an entire record of nominees within the eight aggressive classes:

Greatest Mainstream Artist
Joey DeFrancesco, Extra Music
Kenny Garrett, Sounds From The Ancestors
Christian McBride & Inside Straight, Stay on the Village Vanguard
Brandee Youthful, Someplace Totally different

Greatest Modern Artist
Brian Bromberg, A Little Driving Music
Ben Tankard, SHINE!
Lindsey Webster, “I Didn’t Imply It”
Ragan Whiteside, “Off the Cuff”

Greatest Duo, Group, or Large Band
The Baylor Venture, Generations
Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Power, Expensive Love
Christian McBride & Inside Straight, Stay on the Village Vanguard
Rely Basie Orchestra, Stay at Birdland
(underneath the route of Scotty Barnhart)
Kevin Eubanks and Orrin Evans, EEE (Eubanks-Evans-Expertise)

Greatest New Jazz Artist (Modern or Mainstream)
Simon Moullier, Countdown
Julieta Engenio, Bounce
Kazemde George, I Insist
Samara Pleasure, Samara Pleasure

Greatest Vocal Efficiency
The Baylor Venture, Generations
Somi Kakoma, Dreaming Zenzile
Stacey Kent, Songs From Different Locations
Shawnn Monteiro, You Are There

Greatest Mainstream Album
The Baylor Venture, Generations
Orrin Evans, The Magic of Now
Kenny Garrett, Sounds From The Ancestors
Brandee Youthful, Someplace Totally different

Greatest Modern Album
Bob Baldwin, The Keep at Dwelling Collection, Quantity 1
Brian Culbertson, The Trilogy Pink
Sonny Emory, Soul Ascension
Gabriel Mark Hasselbach, Tongue & Groove

Track of the Yr (Fan Vote)
Norman Brown, “Again At Ya”
Brian Culbertson, “Really feel the Love”
Justin-Lee Schultz, “Gruv Child”
James “PJ” Spraggins, “Up From Right here”