
The Jazz Bell Awards were announced and celebrated on Thursday 3 May 2012 at a gala event in Melbourne.
Awards were presented for a range of categories:
- Best Australian Jazz Vocal Album – Kristin Berardi Meets the Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra (Kristin Berardi and the JMO)
- Most Original Australian Jazz Album – Fish Boast of Fishing (Peter Knight)
- Best Australian Contemporary Jazz Album – 1234 (Nick Haywood Quartet)
- Best Australian Traditional Jazz Album – Collected Works Volume II: Fifty Years of New Orleans Jazz (Allan Browne)
- Best Australian Jazz Song of the Year – Spir (Luke Howard and Janos Bruneel)
- Best Australian Jazz Ensemble – Andrea Keller Quartet
- Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year – Alex Boneham
- 2012 Inductee to the Graham Bell Hall of Fame – Brian Brown
For more information see the official Bells website bellawards.org >