Among the winners of the Ivors Composer awards announced last night on BBC Radio 3 were Renell Shaw’s ‘The Vision They Had’ receiving the award for Jazz Composition for Small Ensemble for this work commissioned by the Vortex Jazz Club. The Jazz Composition for Large Ensemble winner was Charlie Bates for ‘Crepuscule.’

Trumpeter Yazz Ahmed won a special award for Innovation. Composer Julian Joseph becomes an Ivors Academy Fellow, the Academy’s highest honour.

Full list of winners: further details