The Italian Jazz Awards (acronym IJA) are an independent musical review created in 2006 by Andrea Causi and managed by the ACM (Italian free management Agency) in collaboration with the American Management Agency. The purpose of the IJA is to reward the best Italian Jazz Musicians, chosen by an Artistic Board and voted on by the audience on the IJA Official Website. The awards are dedicated to the loving memory of the Italian Jazz pianist Mr. Luca Flores, who died in 1995.

Andrea Causi created the awards while a student of the Jazz Graduation Course of the Conservatory of music G.F. Ghedini in Cuneo. The first edition of the IJA started in 2007 along the lines of the American Jazz Awards.

The Review consists of four categories with four nominees chosen by an Artistic Board. The Board changes every two years, and is formed of Jazz musicians and journalists with the task of picking four finalists that will pass to the final phase of the contest: the public polls.

The only one Award of the review not voted on by the audience but chosen by the Artistic Board is the Honorary Award, assigned to the most important Italian Jazz musician of Europe and the world.

In February 2008, American jazz pianist Mr. Uri Caine

Uri Caine

Uri Caine is an American classical and jazz pianist and composer.-Early years:The son of Burton Caine, a professor at Temple Law School, Caine began playing piano at seven and studied with French jazz pianist Bernard Peiffer at 12. He later studied at the University of Pennsylvania where he came...

 was the special guest of the IJA'07 red carpet show ..

2007 Genoa

Genoa

Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

• Honorary Award: Mr. Luca Flores (posthumous assigned to Flores' sister Barbara)
• Best Jazz Act: Mr. Dado Moroni
  Dado Moroni
  Edgardo “Dado” Moroni is an Italian jazz pianist and composer.A self-taught musician, Dado, who was born in Genoa, Italy, started playing piano at age four...
  
  
• Best Jazz Singer: Ms. Danila Satragno

2008 - Sanremo

Sanremo

Sanremo or San Remo is a city with about 57,000 inhabitants on the Mediterranean coast of western Liguria in north-western Italy. Founded in Roman times, the city is best known as a tourist destination on the Italian Riviera. It hosts numerous cultural events, such as the Sanremo Music Festival...

/Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

/Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

• Honorary Award: Mr. Renato Sellani
• Best Jazz Act: Mr. Fabrizio Bosso
• Best Jazz Singer: Mr. Larry Franco
• Brand New Jazz Act: Mr. Paolo Alderighi
• Best Jazz Album: It's A Good Day - Patti Wicks Trio
• P-Choice Award: The Blue Dolls

Artistic Board: Freddy Colt, Maria Grazia Scarzella, Melania Renzi, Samuel J. Morris.

2009 - Alessandria

Alessandria

-Monuments:* The Citadel * The church of Santa Maria di Castello * The church of Santa Maria del Carmine * Palazzo Ghilini * Università del Piemonte Orientale-Museums:* The Marengo Battle Museum...

/Bari

Bari

Bari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, in Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples, and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas...

• Honorary Award: Mr. Franco Cerri
  Franco Cerri
  Franco Cerri is an Italian guitarist, born in Milan.Franco Cerri was considered as “the best Italian guitarist” and “the best guitarist that European jazz has produced” and became popular in Italy thanks to his participation to the television show Buone Vacanze...
  
  
• Best Jazz Act: Mr. Giovanni Amato
• Best Jazz Singer: Ms. Paola Arnesano
• Brand New Jazz Act: Mr. Francesco Negro
• Best Jazz Album: "Lifetime" - Daniele Scannapieco

Artistic Board: Tiziana Ghiglioni, Patti Wicks, Freddy Colt, Paolo Longo, Adriana Isoardi, Renzo Coniglio, Massimo Epinot.

2010 - Mola di Bari/Locorotondo/Bernalda

• Honorary Award: Mrs. Jula de Palma
  Jula de Palma
  Jula de Palma is an Italian singer.-Biography:She started to work in the early 1950s as a singer in radio with pianist, composer, and showman Lelio Luttazzi...
  
  
• Best Jazz Act: Mr. Mirko Signorile
• Best Jazz Singer: Mr. Giuseppe Delre
• Brand New Jazz Act: Mr. Attilio Troiano

Artistic Board: Barbara Flores, Guido Di Leone, Freddy Colt, Paolo Longo, Adriana Isoardi, Massimo Epinot.

2011 - Rome/Udine

• Honorary Award: Franco D'Andrea
  Franco D'Andrea
  Franco D'Andrea is an Italian pianist who plays mostly jazz and rock. He developed his style in the 1960s and won several awards in his home country...
  
  
• Best Jazz Act: Mauro Zazzarini
• Best Jazz Singer: Cinzia Spata
• Brand New Jazz Act: Barbara Errico

Artistic Board: Barbara Flores, Guido Di Leone, Eva Simontacchi, Stefano Maurizi, Roberto Chiriaco.