Tomorrow's Warriors

Tomorrow's Warriors is a non-profit-making organisation established in 1991 by original Jazz Warriors double bassist, Gary Crosby to nurture and develop talented young jazz musicians who wish to pursue a professional career in jazz. Tomorrow's Warriors represents the new face of jazz. The organisation has its roots in the Jazz Warriors, the seminal Big Band founded in 1985 as a platform for black "streetwise" jazz musicians which helped to incubate names such as Courtney Pine, Gary Crosby, Steve Williamson, Orphy Robinson, Cleveland Watkiss, and many others.
Tomorrow's Warriors essentially picks up where the Jazz Warriors left off in terms of its work with young musicians. Additionally, Tomorrow's Warriors:
- provides professional music "apprenticeships" and performance/educational workshops for young jazz musicians; organises and co-ordinates concerts and other public performances by young jazz musicians nationally and internationally;
- is an artist resource centre for other arts organisations and music industry professionals wishing to collaborate and/or work with jazz musicians;
- a local, national and international information/co-ordination/advisory resource centre for promoters, musicians, arts organisations, production companies, print/broadcast media, venues and others (for example, enterprise training centres).
Since inception, Tomorrow's Warriors has achieved an unparalleled level of success in helping many young musicians to launch successful professional careers in jazz and the organisation is now widely regarded as one of the key organisations in the UK for the professional development of young jazz musicians.
To date, former Tomorrow's Warriors core band members have won a clutch of prestigious awards, plus several nominations for MOBO, Urban and other music awards.
SOWETO KINCH:
Best Jazz Act 2004 [Urban Music Awards];
Best Instrumentalist 2004 [BBC Radio Jazz Awards];
Best Band 2004 [BBC Radio Jazz Awards];
Jazz Innovation 2004 [Peter Whittingham Award];
An Album Of The Year 2003 [Mercury Music Prize];
Best Jazz Act 2003 [MOBO Awards];
Rising Star 2002 [BBC Radio Jazz Awards];
International Young Saxophonist of the Year 2002 [White Foundation Intl Saxophone Competition [Montreux Jazz Festival]
DENYS BAPTISTE:
An Album Of The Year 1999 [Mercury Music Prize];
Best Jazz Act 1999 [MOBO Awards];
Rising Star 2000 [British Jazz Awards].
ABRAM WILSON:
Winner - First Prize - JAZZ CATEGORY - International Songwriting Competition 2005 [Nashville, TN, USA];
Nomination: Best Jazz Act 2005 [MOBO Awards];
Nomination: Best Band 2005 [BBC Radio Jazz Awards].
ANDREW McCORMACK:
Rising Star 2006 - BBC Jazz Awards
GARY CROSBY'S NU TROOP:
Best International Ensemble 1998 [Festival Jazz à Vienne, France Concours International dOrchestres];
Best Soloist 1998 (3rd) [Festival Jazz à Vienne, France Concours International dOrchestres].
JAZZ JAMAICA:
Best Ensemble 2006 [Parliamentary Jazz Awards].
JAZZ JAMAICA ALL STARS:
Best Band 2002 [BBC Radio Jazz Awards.
J-LIFE:
European Young Jazz Artists 1997 [International Jazz Federation, Leverkusen, Germany];
Best Ensemble 1998 [Perrier Young Jazz Awards];
Best Vocalist 1998 [Perrier Young Jazz Awards];
Best Début CD 1998 (2nd) [Perrier Young Jazz Awards].