Toronto bassist Don Thompson....

Toronto's Don Thompson dominated the nominations for Canada's eighth annual National Jazz Awards with seven nods, including musician of the year.
The B.C.-born Thompson, who performs on piano, bass and vibraphone, is in the running for several categories including bassist of the year, composer of the year, instrumentalist of the year, jazz recording of the year (For Kenny Wheeler ) and arranger of the year.
His Don Thompson Quartet is in competition for acoustic band of the year.

The Juno-award winning Thompson has lived and worked in Toronto since 1969. Once an artist in residence at the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1996, the musician has worked with the likes of Moe Koffman, Ed Bickert and Lenny Breau.
Right behind Thompson is another Toronto bassist, Roberto Occhipinti, who is up for six trophies including bassist of the year, guitarist of the year, instrumentalist of the year and musician of the year.
Cuban-born pianist Hilario Duran has five nominations while Vancouver's Brad Turner, a keyboardist and trumpeter, is competing in four categories.

Duran joins Occhipinti and Thompson in the arranger of the year category as well as musician of the year.
CBC Radio 2's Katie Malloch, who hosts Tonic, is up against Len Dobbin, Larry Green, Walter Venafro, Jaymz Bee and Heather Bambrick for broadcaster of the year.
Those in the running for female vocalist of the year are:
Diana Panton
Melody Diachun
Molly Johnson
Elizabeth Shepherd
Emilie-Claire Barlow

And for male vocalist of the year:
Joe Coughlin
Denzal Sinclaire
DK Ibomeka
George Evans
John Alcorn
Awards for 24 categories will be handed out May 14 at a gala in Toronto hosted by CBC Radio announcers Tim Tamashiro and Karen Gordon.
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2009/03/18/jazz-award-nominations.html