This year’s winners of the NZ Jazz Awards in Tauranga were Phil Broadhurst and Callum Allardice.

Awarded on Easter weekend during the National Jazz Festival in Tauranga, Phil Broadhurst’s ‘Panacea’ received the Best Jazz Album Tui, competing against Michael Houstoun & the Rodger Fox Big Band‘s ‘Concerti’ and Kevin Field‘s ‘The A List’.

Callum Alladice’s Sons of Thunder took home the inaugural Best Jazz Composition Award.