The Prix Billie Holiday is a jazz prize that was awarded from 1973 by the Académie du Jazz to the best album in the field of jazz singing ( meilleure nouveauté vocale ). From 1984 to 1997 the best re-release of the year ( réédition ) was also awarded; from 1998 the prize was renamed Prix du Jazz Vocal .
1986: Nothing But the Blues by Joe William (Delos / DAM) and After Midnight by Nat King Cole (Capitol / Pathé-Marconi) ( réédition ).
1987: Live in Paris by Dee Dee Bridgewater (Affinity / CNU / Just in) and Straight Ahead by Abbey Lincoln (Candid / Harmonia Mundi) ( réédition )
1988: Live at Birdland West by Carmen McRae (Concord / DAM) and My First 15 Sides (OFF / Média) by Sarah Vaughan ( réédition )
1989: Close Enough for Love by Shirley Horn (Verve / Polygram Jazz) and Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook by Ella Fitzgerald (Verve / Polygram Jazz) ( réédition )
1990: Freddie Freeloader by Jon Hendricks and Friends (Denon / Lucien Hades) as well as The Divine Sarah Vaughan (CBS) and Recipe for Soul (DCC / Média 7) by Ray Charles ( ré´´edition )
1991: You Gotta Pay the Band by Abbey Lincoln / Stan Getz (Verve / Polygram Jazz) and Violets for Your Furs (SteeplenChase Records / Harmonia Mundi) by Shirley Horn ( rééditon )
1992: Rachelle Ferrell (Something Else / Harmonia Mundi) and Sonderpreis In Memoriam to The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve (Verve / Polygram), Billie Holiday, Decca Recordings (GRP / BMG) and The Voice of Jazz - Complete Recordings 1933-1940 ( Affinity / Charly Records / Média 7)
1993: Heritage by Nnenna Freelon (Columbia / Sony Music)
1994: Songs and Momments by Kevin Mahogany (Enja / Harmonia Mundi)
