BBC Jazz Awards
Jazz musicians who received the BBC Jazz Awards: list of 16 recipients by year.
The BBC Jazz Awards were set up in 2001 and had the status of one of the premier jazz awards in the United Kingdom (among those presenting the awards were Denis Lawson, Sue Mingus, Humphrey Lyttelton, Ian Carr, Clive James, Mike Gibbs, Julian Joseph, Moira Stuart, Annie Whitehead, Mark Knopfler, Dave Brubeck, and Kenneth Clarke). There were awards for Best Musician, Best Vocalist, Rising Star, Best Album, Jazz Innovation, Radio 2 Jazz Artist, Services to Jazz, Best of Jazz and others. Programmes linked to the awards were broadcast on both Radio 2 and Radio 3. In March 2009, the BBC announced that the Jazz Awards were closed. It briefly returned in 2011 as The British Jazz Awards but has not been held since.
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Recipients
| 2004 | Soweto Kinch British jazz musician |
| — | Quincy Jones American record producer and composer (1933–2024) |
| — | Oscar Peterson Canadian jazz pianist (1925–2007) |
| — | Dave Brubeck American jazz pianist and composer (1920–2012) |
| — | Wynton Marsalis American jazz musician and educator |
| — | Clark Terry American swing and bebop trumpeter (1920–2015) |
| — | Charlie Haden American musician and educator (1937–2014) |
| — | George Shearing British-American jazz pianist |
| — | Cleo Laine English jazz singer and actress (1927–2025) |
| — | Acker Bilk English recording artist; clarinetist and vocalist (1929-2014) |
| — | John Surman British saxophonist and clarinetist |
| — | John Dankworth British musician (1927-2010) |
| — | Stacey Kent American recording artist; singer |
| — | Esbjörn Svensson Trio Swedish jazz trio |
| — | Return to Forever American jazz fusion group led by Chick Corea |
| — | Madeleine Peyroux American jazz singer, songwriter, and guitarist |