Orchard-Distributed Artists Score At BBC Jazz Awards

 

Alan Barnes, Jim Tomlinson, Andrew McCormack, Anita Wardell Among Top Winners



NEW YORK – July 24, 2006, – The Orchard, the world’s leading digital distributor and marketer of independent music, today announced that jazz artists Alan Barnes, Jim Tomlinson, Andrew McCormack, and Anita Wardell – all signed to Orchard-distributed labels – won awards at the prestigious BBC Jazz Awards, held July 13 at London's Mermaid Theatre and broadcast on the BBC’s Radio 2 and Radio 3.

“The success of our labels and artists at the BBC Jazz Awards is a reflection of our commitment to the global jazz community,” said Greg Scholl, chief executive of The Orchard. “Through creative marketing in the digital world, we have been able to help our distributed labels increase their sales volumes well beyond the potential of brick-and-mortar retail. We congratulate all the winners of this year’s BBC Jazz Awards and look forward to more success stories in the future.”


Below is the list of Orchard-distributed winners and their label affiliations and BBC Jazz Awards categories:

ARTIST   LABEL AWARD
Alan Barnes   Proper Records, U.K.    Best Instrumentalist
Jim Tomlinson    O+ Music, France       Album of the Year, “The Lyric” (featuring Stacey Kent)
Andrew McCormack    Dune Music, U.K.         Rising Star
Anita Wardell        Specific Jazz/Proper Records     Radio 2 Best of Jazz


About The Orchard
The Orchard is the world’s leading digital distributor and marketer of independent music, with a catalogue of more than one million tracks representing 73 countries, thousands of labels, and every music genre. This catalogue includes titles from multi-platinum acts such as Green Day, Coldplay, Ray Charles, and Barenaked Ladies, as well as from breaking bands like The Hold Steady, Bedouin Soundclash, and Immortal Technique. The Orchard supplies all the leading legal digital music stores and mobile operators throughout the world and markets its labels’ catalogues for sync song placements in films, commercials, and television shows. The company is owned by Dimensional Associates, the private equity arm of JDS Capital Management, Inc. whose portfolio companies also include eMusic and Dimensional Music Publishing. The Orchard is headquartered in New York and London, with offices in 23 countries and six continents. For more information, please visit: www.theorchard.com