BBC Jazz Awards
Jazz musicians who received the BBC Jazz Awards: list of 16 recipients by year.
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 |