Prix Bill Coleman
The namesake of the jazz prize, the American jazz musician Bill Coleman at a performance in the Cafe Society , around 1947. Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .
The Prix Bill Coleman is a jazz prize that was awarded by the Académie du Jazz from 1973 to 1988 for the best album of classical jazz ( meilleur disque de Jazz Classique ), initially under the name Oscar or Prix du meilleur disque de Jazz Classique . After the Academy awarded Bill Coleman, a musician who was active in France for many years, the Prix in Honorem at the end of 1980, the name of the Prix du meilleur disque de Jazz Classique was changed to Prix Bill Coleman at the end of the year . In later years the award was known as the Prix du Jazz Classique ; Furthermore, musicians or productions were honored, which stylistically move in the pre- bebop era.
Laureate of the Prix du meilleur disque de Jazz Classique
- 1973: Illinois Jacquet & Wild Bill Davis (Black & Blue / Barclay )
- 1974: Sirius by Coleman Hawkins ( Pablo )
- 1975: In Paris by Don Byas (Barclay)
- 1976: The Artistry of Tatum by Art Tatum ( Vogue )
- 1977: Montreux '77 by Ray Bryant (Pablo)
- 1978: Concerts de Duke Ellington à Carnegie Hall en 1943/44/46/47 by Duke Ellington ( Prestige / Musidisc Europe)
- 1979: Panama Francis and his Savoy Sultans (Black & Blue)
- 1980: In Washington DC 1956 by Lester Young (Pablo 2308 325-219 / RCA) and Django Reinhardt avec l'ATC Band by Django Reinhardt (Vogue 406505).
Prize winner of the Prix Bill Coleman
- 1981: Kansas City Shout by Count Basie , Big Joe Turner , Eddie Cleanhead Vinson (Pablo / RCA) and Blues in Orbit by Duke Ellington (CBS)
- 1982: The Thundering Herds 45/48 by Woody Herman (CBS)
- 1983: Django au Club Saint-Germain by Django Reinhardt (Vogue)
- 1984: Live by Charlie Shavers , Budd Johnson and André Persiany (Black & Blue / WEA Filipacchi)
- 1985: Earl Bostic by Earl Bostic (Charly)
- 1986: Tippin 'Out by Roy Eldridge (Affinity / Média)
- 1987: no award
- 1988: Saxomania by Claude Tissendier and Benny Carter (IDA / OMD)
- 1989–1991: no award
- 1992: Echoes of Carolina by François Rilhac & Louis Mazetier , (with Alain Marquet ), (Stomp Off / Jazz Trad).
Prize winner of the Prix du Jazz Classique
- 2004: Nicolas Peslier
- 2005: Piano on my Mind by Rossano Sportiello (Jazz Connaisseur / Jazztrade)
- 2006: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax by Jelly Roll Morton (Rounder / Harmonia Mundi)
- 2007: Heroes by Roger Kellaway (IPO Records)
- 2009: Hits by Brits by Harry Allen (Challenge / Intégral Distribution)
- 2010: Swingin 'Sidney Bechet by Paris Swing Orchestra & André Villeger (Black & Blue)
- 2011: Drumset in the Sunset by Guillaume Nouaux ( Autoproduction / Jazztrade-Jazzophile)
- 2012: Live at the Players by Aaron Diehl (CD Baby).
- 2013: Lunceford Still Alive! the Tuxedo Jazz Band (Jazz aux Remparts)
- 2014: Mélancolies d'un Soir by Tchavolo Schmitt (Label Ouest)
- 2015: For Duke and Paul by André Villéger and Philippe Milanta (Camille Prod / Socadisc)
- 2016:
- 2017: Tribute to Lionel Hampton by Michel Pastre
- 2018: Homage to Duke Ellington by Les Rois du Fox-Trot
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Notes and individual references
- ↑ Palmarès 1980
- ↑ Les prix de L'académie de jazz de France
- ↑ In addition, a Prix du meilleur disque de Jazz Classique (inédits) went to Joe Newman for the new editions of his albums All I Wanna Do Is Swing and I'm Still Swinging (RCA 42389/99).
- ↑ as Prix du meilleur disque de Middle Jazz
- ↑ This year as the Prix du meilleur enregistrement de Jazz Traditionnel
- ↑ In addition to the Prix du Jazz Classique , the Prix du meilleur album de Jazz traditionnel ou classique was awarded; he went to Warren Vaché for his album Dream Dancing ( Arbors Records )