Jazz & Blues Award

The Jazz & Blues Award Berlin was an annual music award ceremony in Berlin , which was launched in 2001 by the “Jazzinitiative Berlin eV” and lasted until 2009.

Characteristic

The Berlin Jazz Initiative, which organizes the award ceremony, is an association of jazz organizers, jazz clubs, musicians and jazz lovers whose aim is to provide the capital's jazz with an appropriate platform.

At the Jazz & Blues Award , which has now become an established event in the German jazz landscape, as evidenced by the growing interest in the media and the increasing number of applicants and visitors, a jury award ( combo award, special award) and award an audience award. The prize figure is the “Ella”, a bronze statue, now also known as the “Berlin Jazz Oscar”. By 2007, nearly a hundred bands and artists had performed at the awards ceremony. For the majority of them, this performance was the beginning of a sustainable career. One of the patrons of the event was Till Brönner , who was honored as a German Jazz Ambassador at the 6th Jazz & Blues Award Berlin 2006 by the President of the German Jazz Federation .

List of award winners

2001: Night Train , Jacobien Vlasman Quartet, "Detroit" Gary Wiggins Group (2nd place), Blue Bayou Band (3rd place)
2002: Godwana ( Taiko Saitō , Thibault Falk, Thomas Auffarth and Marc Draeger), both critic and audience award
2003: Manfred Dierkes Trio (Combo Award), Rolf von Nordenskjöld Orchestra (Special Award)
2004: Deep Strings (Combo Award), Waldi Weiz and Band (Special Award)
2005: Griese-cap quartet (Combo-Award), Clave Azul (Special-Award), Sinti Swing Berlin (audience award).
2006: Kattorna (Combo Award), Abdourahmane Diop & Griot Music Company (Special Award)
2007: Blowing Front (Combo-Award), Jazzvocals (Special-Award)
2008: Marc Schmolling & Iris Roman (German Realbook), Mo'Blow (Funk Jazz)
2009: Marie Séférian Quartet, Benjamin Attiche Quartet

Discography

2001: Jazz & Blues Award 2001 (studio 1058)
2002: Jazz & Blues Award 2002 (Monopoly)
2003: Jazz & Blues Award 2003 (Monopoly)
2004: Jazz & Blues Award 2004 (Monopoly)
2005: Jazz & Blues Award 2005 (Icestorm)
2006: Jazz & Blues Award 2006 (studio 1058)
2007: Jazz & Blues Award 2007 (studio 1058)

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Ronny Jakubaschk: The 1st Jazz & Blues Award in the BKA , In: Berliner Zeitung from August 16, 2001
Sylke Merbold: Jazz & Blues Award 2005 , In: Jazzzeitung , issue 2/2006

Web links

Homepage of the Berlin Jazz Initiative

Individual evidence

^ Je : "Ella": 1st Jazz & Blues Award Berlin in the BKA. Retrieved July 7, 2016 .
↑ with Christiankap (tp, flh), Christof Griese (s, fl), Johannes Kersthold (p), Dirk Strakhof (b) and Rainer Winch (dr) ( Nachrichten Jazzzeitung 12/2005)
↑ with Magnus Schriefl (tp), Dan Freeman (ts), Simon Harrer (tb), Daniel Stawinski (p), Eudinho Soraes (b), Robby Geerken (congas), Diego Piñera (d) ( Nachrichten Jazzzeitung 12/2005)

[1] Je : "Ella": 1st Jazz & Blues Award Berlin in the BKA. Retrieved July 7, 2016 .

[2] with Christiankap (tp, flh), Christof Griese (s, fl), Johannes Kersthold (p), Dirk Strakhof (b) and Rainer Winch (dr) ( Nachrichten Jazzzeitung 12/2005)

[3] with Magnus Schriefl (tp), Dan Freeman (ts), Simon Harrer (tb), Daniel Stawinski (p), Eudinho Soraes (b), Robby Geerken (congas), Diego Piñera (d) ( Nachrichten Jazzzeitung 12/2005)