The Jazz / Blues Category
All jazz and blues styles from jazz ballads to classic 12 bars, traditional, experimental and modern are welcome in this category. This could also be a suitable category for contemporary jazz based easy listening styles, or heavily jazz influenced bands (eg Steely Dan). Instrumental jazz or blues compositions may also be entered in this category. Past winners have included sophisticated jazz, experimental, raw blues, trad, latin influenced and more. We are constantly surprised and impressed by the variety of entries in this category.
Winners, Finalists, Semi Finalists, Commended Entries...
In addition to the Category Winner there are also many Finalist, Semi Finalist and Commended Entry winners in this category - see the Prizes Page for full details of prizes - and everyone will have their songs heard and examined and rated by industry professionals. Every writer who makes the finals will receive International Copyright Registrations at SongCopyright.org courtesy of the UKSC. Everyone who enters will receive valuable and useful song pitching opportunities and songwriting courses with SongU and also free Broadjam memberships which together are worth US$100. Plus every songwriter is given the judges score for each song and also receives a UKSC Certificate for every song entered with details of the writer's achievement and position. This competition gives a genuine chance to all songwriters to be noticed and discovered by the music industry in London and to have their songs judged and scored by industry professionals. Many entrants who didn't win a category have been noticed and promoted through the contest and have received royalty earning radio play for their entries and many more have been featured in the press, in radio interviews and on prime time television. Many entrants in this contest have been published, or have been signed or produced, by top industry figures who closely follow this event looking for new talent.
Jazz / Blues Songs:
Below are some examples of successful entries in this category:
Winners, Finalists, Semi Finalists, Commended Entries...
In addition to the Category Winner there are also many Finalist, Semi Finalist and Commended Entry winners in this category - see the Prizes Page for full details of prizes - and everyone will have their songs heard and examined and rated by industry professionals. Every writer who makes the finals will receive International Copyright Registrations at SongCopyright.org courtesy of the UKSC. Everyone who enters will receive valuable and useful song pitching opportunities and songwriting courses with SongU and also free Broadjam memberships which together are worth US$100. Plus every songwriter is given the judges score for each song and also receives a UKSC Certificate for every song entered with details of the writer's achievement and position. This competition gives a genuine chance to all songwriters to be noticed and discovered by the music industry in London and to have their songs judged and scored by industry professionals. Many entrants who didn't win a category have been noticed and promoted through the contest and have received royalty earning radio play for their entries and many more have been featured in the press, in radio interviews and on prime time television. Many entrants in this contest have been published, or have been signed or produced, by top industry figures who closely follow this event looking for new talent.
Jazz / Blues Songs:
Below are some examples of successful entries in this category:
Something's Wrong by Billy D. UK Songwriting Contest Blues Winner in 2013.
Nietzsche Tonight by Phil Danter - UKSC jazz Winner in 2013
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I Ain't Got No Love Left by Australian songwriter Bryony Morgan was winner of the Jazz/Blues Category in 2010. UKSC judge, top producer and musical director Richard Niles described it as the year's "most original entry with a lot of well executed dynamic changes. Beginning as an old '30s blues, its shifts gears to a great rock/blues riff and an emotive song... shifting gears at the end to return to the solo voice, this is a compelling entry".
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Paul Raj is a London based songwriter, singer, jazz musician and music teacher. He says he writes for "jazz aficionados, soulsters, romantics and musicians" and this impressive song entry, State Of Mind, was chosen by the UKSC judges as their 2012 UKSC Jazz / Blues category winner.
This song was the firm favourite and first choice of top producer and undisputed jazz expert Richard Niles who picked it as the most outstanding entry among all the jazz/blues finalists in 2011. Kate Ockenden is a pianist, singer and songwriter and this winning song Relativity is the title track of a new compilation of her jazz/funk compositions.
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Call This A Draw by Holly Sheard
Finalist in 2010 Call This A Draw by Yorkshire songwriter and singer Hollie Sheard was a Finalist in the UK Songwriting Contest 2010 (Jazz/Blues Category). Here is the song performed by her full band Hollie Sheard & Friends. |
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