List of Echo Jazz Prize Winners
This article lists all of the Echo Jazz winners .
Best seller of the year
- 2010: Diana Krall ( Quiet Nights )
- 2011: Till Brönner ( At the End of the Day )
- 2012: Wynton Marsalis , Eric Clapton ( Play the Blues: Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center )
- 2013: Melody Gardot ( The Absence )
- 2014: Caro Emerald ( The Shocking Miss Emerald )
- 2015: Gregory Porter ( Liquid Spirit )
- 2016: Diana Krall ( Wallflower )
- 2017: Gregory Porter ( Take Me to the Alley )
- 2018: Norah Jones ( Day Breaks )
Ensemble of the year (national)
- 2010: Tingvall Trio ( Vattensaga )
- 2011: em ( (em) Live at Jazzbaltica )
- 2012: Tingvall Trio ( Vägen )
- 2013: em ( Wasted & Wanted )
- 2014: Heinz Sauer & Michael Wollny ( Don't Explain )
- 2015: Michael Wollny Trio ( Space Dream )
- 2016: Michael Wollny Trio ( night drives )
- 2017: Joachim Kühn Trio ( Beauty & Truth )
- 2018: Omer Klein Trio ( Sleepwalkers )
Ensemble of the year (international)
- 2010: Vijay Iyer Trio ( Historicity )
- 2011: Brad Mehldau Trio ( Highway Rider )
- 2012: Trombone Shorty ( For True )
- 2013: Brad Mehldau Trio ( Where Do You Start )
- 2014: Rudresh Mahanthappa Gamak Ensemble ( Gamak )
- 2015: Vincent Peirani & Émile Parisien ( Belle Époque )
- 2016: James Farm ( City Folk )
- 2017: Branford Marsalis ( Upward Spiral )
- 2018: Parisien , Peirani , Schaerer & Wollny ( Out of Land )
Large ensemble album of the year
- 2010: Helge Sunde ( Finding Nymo )
- 2011: Omar Sosa , NDR Bigband ( Ceremony )
- 2012: Joachim Kühn Trio , hr-Bigband ( Out of the Desert Live - hr Bigband at Jazzfest Berlin )
- 2013: Stefano Bollani , NDR Bigband ( Big Band! )
- 2014: Michael Wollny with Tamar Halperin & HR Bigband ( Wunderkammer XXL )
- 2015: Christof Lauer & NDR Bigband ( Petite Fleur )
- 2016: Sebastian Sternal & Sternal Symphonic Society ( Sternal Symphonic Society Vol. 2 )
- 2017: Marius Neset & London Sinfonietta ( Snow Melt )
- 2018: Andreas Schaerer & Hildegard learns to fly Meets the Orchestra of the Lucerne Festival Academy ( The Big Wig )
Singer of the year (national)
Singer of the year (national)
- 2010: Theo Bleckmann ( Refuge Trio )
- 2011: Thomas Quasthoff ( Tell It Like It Is )
- 2012: Götz Alsmann ( In Paris )
- 2013: Michael Schiefel ( To Berlin Children )
Singer of the Year (national)
- 2010: Celine Rudolph ( Metamorflores )
- 2011: Lyambiko ( Something Like Reality )
- 2012: Jasmin Tabatabai ( A woman )
- 2013: Caro Josée ( Turning Point )
From 2010 to 2013, an ECHO Jazz was awarded nationally in the categories singer and singer, in 2014 both categories were combined and only one joint prize is awarded for the best singer.
- 2014: Peter Fessler ( Quality Time )
- 2015: Johanna Borchert ( FMbiography )
- 2016: Roger Cicero ( The Roger Cicero Jazz Experience )
- 2017: Lucia Cadotsch ( Speak Low )
- 2018: Céline Rudolph ( Obsession )
Singer of the year (international)
Singer of the year (international)
- 2010: Curtis Stigers ( Lost in Dreams )
- 2011: Bobby McFerrin ( Vocabularies )
- 2012: Kurt Elling ( The Gate )
- 2013: Curtis Stigers ( Let's Go Out Tonight )
Singer of the year (international)
- 2010: Melody Gardot ( My One and Only Thrill )
- 2011: Youn Sun Nah ( Same Girl )
- 2012: Cassandra Wilson ( Silver Pony )
- 2013: Malia ( Black Orchid )
From 2010 to 2013 an ECHO Jazz was awarded in the international singer and singer categories, in 2014 both categories were combined and only one common prize will be awarded for the best singer.
- 2014: Gregory Porter ( Liquid Spirit )
- 2015: Andreas Schaerer ( The Fundamental Rhythm of Unpolished Brains )
- 2016: José James ( Yesterday I Had the Blues )
- 2017: Norah Jones ( Day Breaks )
- 2018: Cécile McLorin Salvant ( Dreams and Daggers )
Instrumentalist of the year national - Saxophone / Woodwinds
- 2010: Klaus Doldinger ( On Stage )
- 2011: Heinz Sauer ( If (Blue) Then (Blue) )
- 2012: Johannes Enders ( Billy Rubin )
- 2013: Lutz Häfner ( Deep )
- 2014: Wanja Slavin ( Slavin-Eldh-Lillinger )
- 2015: Niels Klein ( Tubes and Wires )
- 2016: Rolf Kühn ( stereo )
- 2017: Daniel Erdmann ( Daniel Erdmann's Velvet Revolution )
- 2018: Charlotte Greve ( There Is Only Make )
International Instrumentalist of the Year - Saxophone / Woodwinds
- 2010: Branford Marsalis ( Metamorphoses )
- 2011: David Sanborn ( Only Everything )
- 2012: Joe Lovano ( Bird Songs )
- 2013: Kenny Garrett ( Seeds from the Underground )
- 2014: Joshua Redman ( Walking Shadows )
- 2015: Branford Marsalis ( In My Solitude: Live in Concert at Grace Cathedral )
- 2016: Kamasi Washington ( The Epic )
- 2017: Émile Parisien ( Sfumato )
- 2018: Michel Portal ( Eternal Stories )
Instrumentalist of the year national - brass instruments
- 2010: Frederik Köster ( Sign of the Times )
- 2011: Nils Wogram ( Listen to Your Woman )
- 2012: Joo Kraus ( Painting Pop )
- 2013: Nils Wülker ( Just Here, Just Now )
- 2014: Till Brönner ( Till Brönner )
- 2015: Sebastian Studnitzky ( Ky the String Project )
- 2016: Nils Wogram ( Nature )
- 2017: Frederik Köster ( Canada )
- 2018: Markus Stockhausen ( Far into the Stars )
Instrumentalist of the year international - brass instruments
- 2010: Roy Hargrove ( Emergence )
- 2011: Ray Anderson ( Hear You Say )
- 2012: Ambrose Akinmusire ( When the Heart Emerges Glistening )
- 2013: Christian Scott ( Christian a Tunde Adjuah )
- 2014: Terence Blanchard ( Magnetic )
- 2015: Ambrose Akinmusire ( The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint )
- 2016: Ibrahim Maalouf ( Kalthoum )
- 2017: Cuong Vu ( Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny )
- 2018: Ambrose Akinmusire ( A Rift in Decorum )
Instrumentalist of the year national - piano / keyboards
- 2010: Michael Wollny ( Wunderkammer , with Tamar Halperin )
- 2011: Stefan Rusconi ( It's a Sonic Life )
- 2012: Christian Elsässer ( Seemingly )
- 2013: Florian Weber ( Biosphere )
- 2014: Joachim Kühn ( Voodoo Sense )
- 2015: Michael Wollny ( Space Dream )
- 2016: Anke Helfrich ( Dedication )
- 2017: Michael Wollny ( tandem )
- 2018: Sebastian Sternal ( Home )
International Instrumentalist of the Year - Piano / Keyboards
- 2010: Uri Caine ( Plastic Temptation )
- 2011: Jason Moran ( Ten )
- 2012: Iiro Rantala ( Lost Heroes )
- 2013: Vijay Iyer ( Accelerando )
- 2014: Enrico Pieranunzi ( Live at the Viallage Vanguard )
- 2015: Chick Corea ( Solo Piano Portraits )
- 2016: Tigran Hamasyan ( Mockroot )
- 2017: Kenny Barron ( Book of Intuition )
- 2018: Baptiste Trotignon ( Chimichurri )
Instrumentalist of the year national - guitar
- 2010: not awarded according to the jury's decision
- 2011: Heiko Fischer ( Lucid )
- 2012: Max Frankl ( Stories )
- 2013: Giovanni Weiss ( Wilhelmsburg )
- 2014: Arne Jansen ( The Sleep of Reason - Ode to Goya )
- 2015: Tobias Hoffmann ( 11 Famous Songs Tenderly Messed Up )
- 2016: Giovanni Weiss ( Driving )
- 2017: Arne Jansen ( Nine Firmaments )
- 2018: Hanno Busch ( Share This Room )
International Instrumentalist of the Year - Guitar
- 2010: Bill Frisell ( Disfarmer )
- 2011: Lee Ritenour ( 6 String Theory )
- 2012: Julian Lage ( Gladwell )
- 2013: Lionel Loueke ( Heritage )
- 2014: Pat Metheny ( Tap: John Zorn's Book of Angels, Vol. 20 )
- 2015: Pat Metheny ( Kin )
- 2016: Philip Catherine ( The String Project - Live in Brussels )
- 2017: Charlie Hunter ( Everybody Has a Plan until They Get Punched in the Mouth )
- 2018: Scott DuBois ( Autumn Wind )
Instrumentalist of the year national - bass / bass guitar
- 2010: Henning Sieverts ( Blackbird )
- 2011: Dieter Ilg ( Otello )
- 2012: André Nendza ( Rooms Restored )
- 2013: Sebastian Gramss ( Homo Ludens )
- 2014: Dieter Ilg ( Parsifal )
- 2015: Eva Kruse ( In Water )
- 2016: Dieter Ilg ( My Beethoven )
- 2017: Eva Kruse ( On the Mo )
- 2018: Sebastian Gramss ( Gentle Giants )
Instrumentalist of the year international - bass / bass guitar
- 2010: Renaud Garcia-Fons ( La Linea del Sur )
- 2011: Charlie Haden ( Sophisticated Ladies )
- 2012: Renaud Garcia-Fons ( Méditerranées )
- 2013: Avishai Cohen ( Duende )
- 2014: Dave Holland ( Prism )
- 2015: Lars Danielsson ( Liberetto II )
- 2016: Lars Danielsson ( Just the Two of Us )
- 2017: Lars Danielsson ( Son Blowing )
- 2018: Kinga Głyk ( Dream )
Instrumentalist of the year national - drums / percussion
- 2010: Wolfgang Haffner ( Round Silence )
- 2011: Eric Schaefer ( [em] Live )
- 2012: Jonas Burgwinkel ( Source Direct )
- 2013: Bastian Jütte ( love-hate relationship )
- 2014: Dejan Terzic ( Melanoia )
- 2015: Eric Schaefer ( Space Dream )
- 2016: Benny Greb ( Moving Parts )
- 2017: Diego Piñera ( My Picture )
- 2018: Wolfgang Haffner ( Kind of Spain )
International Instrumentalist of the Year - Drums / Percussion
- 2010: Billy Hart ( Live at Cafe Damberd )
- 2011: not awarded according to the jury's decision
- 2012: Magnus Öström ( Thread of Life )
- 2013: Brian Blade ( Quiver )
- 2014: Antonio Sánchez ( New Life )
- 2015: Jeff Ballard ( Time's Tales )
- 2016: Kendrick Scott ( We Are the Drum )
- 2017: Antonio Sanchez ( The Unity Sessions )
- 2018: Antonio Sanchez ( Bad Hombre )
Instrumentalist of the Year - Special Instruments
Instrumentalist of the year national - other instruments
- 2010: not awarded according to the jury's decision
- 2011: not awarded according to the jury's decision
- 2012: not awarded according to the jury's decision
- 2013: Wolfgang Schlüter ( Visions )
Instrumentalist of the year international - other instruments
- 2010: Anouar Brahem ( The Astounding Eyes of Rita )
- 2011: Pat Metheny ( Orchestrion )
- 2012: Pascal Schumacher ( Bang My Can )
- 2013: Adam Bałdych ( Imaginary Room )
From 2010 to 2013 the category was called “Instrumentalist of the Year - Other Instruments” and was awarded in the national and international categories. In 2014, both categories were combined and there is now only one joint award for the best national or international instrumentalist of the year for special instruments.
- 2014: Vincent Peirani ( Thrill Box )
- 2015: Vincent Peirani ( Belle Époque )
- 2016: Hamilton de Holanda ( Bandolim )
- 2017: Vincent Peirani ( tandem )
- 2018: Chris Thile ( Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau )
Live act of the year
- 2010: Quadro Nuevo
- 2011: Quadro Nuevo
- 2012: Tingvall Trio
- 2013: Rusconi
Newcomer of the year (national)
- 2010: Angelika Niescier ( Sublime III )
- 2011: Tim Allhoff ( Prelude )
- 2012: Lisbeth Quartet ( Constant Travelers )
- 2013: Sebastian Sternal ( Symphonic Society )
- 2014: Monika Roscher ( Failure in Wonderland )
- 2015: Eva Klesse Quartet ( Xenon )
- 2016: Natalia Mateo ( Heart of Darkness )
- 2017: Anna-Lena Schnabel ( Books, Bottles, and Bamboo )
- 2018: Bamesreiter Schwartz Orchestra ( Metamorphosis )
Jazz label of the year
- 2010: ACT
- 2011: ACT
- 2012: ACT
- 2013: ACT
Editorial achievement of the year
- 2010: Claus Schreiner ( The Famous Lippmann + Rau Festivals )
- 2012: Harry Weinger ( First Impulse: The Creed Taylor Collection 50th Anniversary )
- 2013: Hans Lüdemann ( The Art of Trios 1-5 )
DVD of the year
- 2010: Diana Krall ( Live in Rio )
- 2011: not awarded according to the jury's decision
- 2012: Françoise Gazio ( Django Reinhardt - Three-Fingered Lightning )
- 2013: Renaud Garcia-Fons , Nicolas Dattilesi ( Solo - The Marcevol Concert )
Life's work
- 2010: Paul Kuhn
- 2011: Joachim Kühn , Rolf Kühn
- 2012: Claus Ogerman
- 2013: Toots Thielemans
- 2014: Dusko Goykovich
- 2015: Eberhard Weber
- 2016: Wolfgang Dauner
- 2017: Klaus Doldinger
- 2018: Ron Carter
Promoter of jazz
- 2010: Karsten Jahnke
- 2011: Manfred Eicher (rejected the award)
- 2012: Christiane Böhnke-Geisse, Unterfahrt jazz club
- 2013: Sedal Sardan , A-Trane
Dealer of the Year
- 2010: Ludwig Beck
- 2011: Dussmann das KulturKaufhaus
- 2012: Saturn Theresienhöhe Munich
- 2013: JPC-Schallplatten mail order company
Special prices
- 2010: Charlie Mariano (posthumous) (special award for extraordinary achievements in the jazz field)
- 2011: Herbie Hancock ( The Imagine Project ) (special award for the global recording project)
- 2012: Federal jazz orchestra (special prize for extraordinary achievements in the jazz field)
- 2015: young german jazz
- 2015: Oscar Peterson & Ben Webster ( During This Time )
- 2016: Brad Mehldau ( 10 Years Solo Live )
- 2017: Arne Reimer ( American Jazz Heroes ), est ( Symphony )
- 2018: Thelonious Monk ( Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ The quartet consists of Aaron Parks , Joshua Redman , Matt Penman , Eric Harland .
- ↑ a b List of winners 2010 ( memento of the original from June 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, 99 KB)
- ↑ a b c 2011 list of award winners ( memento of the original from June 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ List of winners 2012 (PDF, 32 KB)
- ↑ Friday, No. 16, April 20, 2011
- ^ Announcement (NMZ), April 23, 2010