Bird Award
The Bird Award was a jazz prize given annually from 1985 to 2005 at the North Sea Jazz Festival as an award for the complete works of jazz musicians and people who have made a contribution to jazz. Since 2006 it has been named as the Paul Acket Award after the founder of the festival. It is one of the most prestigious jazz awards in the Netherlands. Associated with the award is a concert by the award winners at the festival. Prize winners were:
- 1985 Miles Davis , Albert Mangelsdorff , John Engels , Han Bennink
- 1986 David Murray , Martial Solal , Rein de Graaff
- 1987 Benny Carter , Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen , Piet Noordijk
- 1988 Dizzy Gillespie , Stéphane Grappelli , Willem Breuker
- 1989 Art Blakey , John Surman , Misha Mengelberg
- 1990 Stan Getz , Philip Catherine , Ruud Brink
- 1991 Barry Harris , Rita Reys , Frans Elsen
- 1992 Norman Granz , Michiel de Ruyter , Pete Felleman
- 1993 Sonny Rollins , Hans Dulfer , Paul Acket
- 1994 Ornette Coleman , Pierre Courbois , Dutch Swing College Band
- 1995 Lionel Hampton , Toots Thielemans , Ernst Reijseger
- 1996 Ray Brown , Cees Slinger , Pim Jacobs
- 1997 Clark Terry , Jasper van't Hof , Greetje Kauffeld
- 1998 Max Roach , Hein van de Geyn , Aad Bos
- 1999 Cecil Taylor , Henk Meutgeert , Dick de Winter
- 2000 JJ Johnson , Michael Moore , Gerry Teekens
- 2001 Toon Roos
- 2002 Joe Zawinul , Eric Vloeimans
- 2003 Pat Metheny , Rob Madna , Perico Sambeat
- 2004 Rudy Van Gelder , Martijn van Iterson
- 2005 Jos Acket, Ben Allison
The award winner Pete Felleman (1921-2000) was the first disc jockey on Dutch radio, whose career began in 1947 with a jazz show on the radio station VARA . Aad Bos (* 1931 in Rotterdam) worked for VARA from 1960 to 1992 and as a jazz presenter for VPRO from 1992 to 1996 . Dick de Winter is a radio music producer and, together with Cees Schrama, founded the live jazz radio program Tros Sesjun , which existed from 1973 to 2003. Jos Acket is the wife of Paul Acket who founded the North Sea Jazz Festival . She had long organized the commercial management of the festival. Gerry Teekens, a former teacher who started touring for Jimmy Raney , Lee Konitz , Warne Marsh , Dexter Gordon and others in the late 1970s . a. organized, is the founder of the jazz label Criss-Cross Records .
The Bird Award was renamed the Paul Acket Award in 2006 - after the festival organizer who died in 1992 . It is awarded in two categories:
- Artists deserving against recognition
- 2006 Han Reiziger
- 2007 Gianluca Petrella
- 2008 Adam Rogers
- 2009 Stefano Bollani
- 2010 Christian Scott
- 2011 Arve Henriksen
- 2012 Craig Taborn
- 2013 Anat Cohen
- 2014 Ambrose Akinmusire
- 2015 Tigran Hamasyan
- 2016 Cécile McLorin Salvant
- Special Appreciation (not awarded every year)
- 2006 Conrad Herwig
- 2007 Dick Bakker (* 1947, composer, 1991-2005 director of the Metropole Orkest )
- 2009 Cees Schrama (presenter of the radio program Tros Sesjun)
- 2010 Quincy Jones
The winner, Han Reiziger (1934–2006) was a music producer and radio and TV music journalist for classical music, jazz and pop. He started out as a cabaret pianist. Since 1963 he worked for the VPRO, where from 1989 to 2001 he presented the TV show Reiziger in Muziek .