Quincy Jones to bag Lifetime Achievement gong

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Quincy Jones to bag Lifetime Achievement gong at Jazz FM Awards 

Legendary US composer, producer, pioneer and all-round cool cat Quincy Jones
will take home this year’s PPL Lifetime Achievement Award as part of
2016’s Jazz FM Awards, which are produced by Serious and will take place
at the Bloomsbury Ballroom, London on 26 April. Jones, the habitual
Grammy-gatherer, is being acknowledged for his prolific impact upon the
music industry throughout a career spanning over six decades. Indeed,
one of his latest contributions to the biz, Jones’ protégé, the
precociously multi-talented Jacob Collier, is among the list of nominees for this year’s awards, which will be hosted by British broadcaster and comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli. 
Here’s the full list of Jazz FM Award nominees: Breakthrough Act of the Year: Binker & Moses; Jacob Collier; Nerija. International Jazz Artist of the Year: Kamasi Washington; Marcus Miller; Maria Schneider. Blues Artist of the Year: Alabama Shakes; Buddy Guy; Gary Clark Jnr. Soul Artist of the Year: Jill Scott; Leon Bridges; Lizz Wright. Instrumentalist of the Year: Mark Lockheart; Theon Cross; Zoe Rahman. Vocalist of the Year: Eska; Lauren Kinsella; Liane Carroll. Jazz Innovation of the Year: Black Top; Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah; David Virelles. Digital Initiative of the Year: Chassol; Jacob Collier; Tin Men & The Telephone. Album of the Year (Public Vote): Christian Scott Stretch Music; Hiatus Kiayote Choose Your Weapon; Kamasi Washington The Epic; Maria Schneider The Thompson Fields; Charenee Wade Offering; Snarky Puppy Sylva. UK Jazz Act of the Year (Public Vote): Binker & Moses; Matthew Halsall; Sons of Kemet. Live Experience of the Year (Public Vote):
Ice-T and Ron McCurdy, The Langston Hughes Project at the Barbican;
Maria Schneider at Symphony Hall, Birmingham; Taylor McFerrin at Rio
Club Glasgow. Lifetime Achievement: Quincy Jones.
– Spencer Grady
For more info visit www.jazzfmawards.com   

from /www.jazzwisemagazine.com

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	Quincy Jones to bag Lifetime Achievement gong at Jazz FM Awards Legendary US composer, producer, pioneer and all-round cool cat Quincy Jones will take home this year’s PPL Lifetime Achievement Award as part of 2016’s Jazz FM Awards, which are produced by Serious and will take place at the Bloomsbury Ballroom, London on 26 April. Jones, the habitual Grammy-gatherer, is being acknowledged for his prolific impact upon the music industry throughout a career spanning over six decades. Indeed, one of his latest contributions to the biz, Jones’ protégé, the precociously multi-talented Jacob Collier, is among the list of nominees for this year’s awards, which will be hosted by British broadcaster and comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli. Here’s the full list of Jazz FM Award nominees: Breakthrough Act of the Year: Binker & Moses; Jacob Collier; Nerija. International Jazz Artist of the Year: Kamasi Washington; Marcus Miller; Maria Schneider. Blues Artist of the Year: Alabama Shakes; Buddy Guy; Gary Clark Jnr. Soul Artist of the Year: Jill Scott; Leon Bridges; Lizz Wright. Instrumentalist of the Year: Mark Lockheart; Theon Cross; Zoe Rahman. Vocalist of the Year: Eska; Lauren Kinsella; Liane Carroll. Jazz Innovation of the Year: Black Top; Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah; David Virelles. Digital Initiative of the Year: Chassol; Jacob Collier; Tin Men & The Telephone. Album of the Year (Public Vote): Christian Scott Stretch Music; Hiatus Kiayote Choose Your Weapon; Kamasi Washington The Epic; Maria Schneider The Thompson Fields; Charenee Wade Offering; Snarky Puppy Sylva. UK Jazz Act of the Year (Public Vote): Binker & Moses; Matthew Halsall; Sons of Kemet. Live Experience of the Year (Public Vote): Ice-T and Ron McCurdy, The Langston Hughes Project at the Barbican; Maria Schneider at Symphony Hall, Birmingham; Taylor McFerrin at Rio Club Glasgow. Lifetime Achievement: Quincy Jones. – Spencer Grady For more info visit www.jazzfmawards.com from /www.jazzwisemagazine.com