2004 Best Album: The Journey Home – Colin Steele Best Band: Soweto Kinch Best Vocalist: Ian Shaw Best Instrumentalist: Soweto Kinch Rising Star: Seb Rochford Best New Work: Cheltenham "Jerwood Rising Stars" Commission – Richard Fairhurst Jazz Innovation: F-IRE Collective Services to Jazz: Jed Williams International Award of the Year: Wynton Marsalis Jazz Heritage Award: Keith Nichols Lifetime Achievement: George Melly
2005 Best Band: Acoustic Ladyland Jazz On 3 Innovation: Huw Warren Rising Star: Gwilym Simcock Best Instrumentalist: Peter King Best Vocalist: Liane Carroll Radio 3 Jazz Line-up Album: Tony Kofi Radio 2 Jazz Artist of the Year: Jamie Cullum Best of Jazz Award: Liane Carroll Gold Award: Acker Bilk Services to Jazz: John Cumming Lifetime Achievement: Oscar Peterson
2006 Radio 2 Jazz Artist of the Year: Jools Holland Best of Jazz award: Anita Wardell Radio 3 Jazz Line-Up award for Best Band: Dennis Rollins' Badbone and Co Radio 3 Jazz on 3 award for Innovation or Achievement in New Music: Tim Garland's Lighthouse Project Album of the Year: The Lyric (featuring Stacey Kent) – Jim Tomlinson Rising Star: Andrew McCormack Best Instrumentalist: Alan Barnes Best Vocalist: Clare Teal Services to Jazz in the UK: Ian Carr Lifetime Achievement: Quincy Jones