The 2011 Australian Jazz Bell Awards will be handed out tomorrow at the new home at Melbourne’s Regent Plaza Ballroom.
The event will be hosted by Tracey Curro and acknowledge the various sub-categories in jazz no generally given attention at the more hig-profile music awards such as the ARIA Awards.
The Australian Jazz Bell Awards were named after Australian Jazz Legend Graham Bell.
The judges for the 2011 Awards include Albert Dadon, jazz musician and founder of the awards, musician Aaron Searle, Adrian Jackson, artistic director of the Wangaratta Jazz Festival, Gerry Koster, producer and presenter of Jazz Up Late in ABC Classic FM, composer Dr Jenny Game-Lopata, Laurence Donohue-Greene, Managing Editor if the New York City Jazz Record, jazz performer Martin Jackson, Michael Tortoni, owner of Bennetts Lane Jazz Club and artistic director of the Melbourne Jazz Festival and Robert Burke, the deputy head of the School of Music at Monash University.
The nominees are:
Tarrawarra Estate Winery Best Australian Jazz Vocal Album
Vince Jones, Modern Folk
Elly Hoyt, Elly Hoyt
Hayden Jones, Nine Lives Slipping
Palace Cinemas Best Australian Jazz Blend Album
The Subterraneans, The Subterraneans
Mark Isaacs Resurgence Band, Aurora
Baz, Lady from Toulouse
Gibson Guitars Best Australian Jazz Contemporary Album
Mike Nock Trio, An Accumulation of Subtleties
Misinterprotatato, The Gentle War
Joe Chindamo, Another Place Some Other Time
Brand Partners Best Australian Traditional Jazz Album
Stephen Grant, Jazz Hands
Leigh Barker, The New Sheiks
Hot Licks Jazz Band, Hot Licks Jazz Band
APRA Best Australian Jazz Song of the Year
Andrea Keller, Place
Johannes Luebbers Dectet, Ashes to Ashes
Eugene Ball, Song from the Highest Tower
Fender Katsalidis Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year
Casey Golden
Johannes Luebbers
Eamon Dilworth
Monash University Best Australian Jazz Ensemble
Australian Art Orchestra/Young Wagilak Group
Mark Isaacs Resurgence Band
Andrea Keller Quartet
The winners will be announced at a glittering event hosted by Tracey Curro on May 5 in Melbourne’s Regent Plaza Ballroom. Tickets available at $165 per person, $1650 per table of 10. Email the jazz bell team on info@bellawards.org for more details.
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