Prix ​​Charles Delaunay

The Prix ​​Charles Delaunay is a jazz prize that was awarded by the Académie du Jazz to the best book publication on jazz ( prix du meilleur livre traitant du jazz ) from 1985 onwards . After the prize was initially known as Le Prix du Livre de Jazz , it received the title Prix ​​Charles Delaunay after the death of long-standing jury member Charles Delaunay in 1988 . From 2010 they returned to the old title.

Award winners

1985: L'œil du Jazz by Herman Leonard (Ed. Filipacchi) and Delaunay's Dilemna by Charles Delaunay (Ed. W) 1986: West Coast Jazz by Alain Tercinet (Ed. Parenthèses) 1987: Big Bill Blues (autobiography by Big Bill Broonzy ), ed. by Yannick Bruynoghe republished by Marc Tomsin (Ed. Ludd) and for Le Jazz by Lucien Malson and Christian Bellest (Collection Que Sais-Je , Presses Universitaires de France) 1988: Dictionnaire du jazz , ed. by Philippe Carles , André Clergeat , Jean-Louis Comolli & Col. (Ed.Albin Michel) 1989: Miles, the autobiography of Miles Davis (Presse de la Renaissance) 1990: Las Vegas Tango by Laurent Cugny (Ed.POL / Collection Birdland) 1991: 'BeBop by Alain Tercinet (Ed.POL) 1992: Talkin 'That Talk, le langage du blues et du jazz by Jean-Paul Levet (Hatier) 1993: Electric Miles Davis (1968-1975) by Laurent Cugny (Birdland / André Dimanche Éditeur) 1994: Bessie Smith by Florence Martin (Editions du Limon / Collection Mood Indigo) 1995: Jazz Impro by Geoff Dyer (Editions Joëlle Lasfeld) 1996: Monk by Laurent De Wilde (L'Arpenteur / Gallimard) 1997: Une histoire de la batterie de jazz. Tome 1 by Georges Paczynski (Outre Mesure) 1998: Jazz Me Blues, (Photographies de Jean-Pierre Leloir ) by François Postif (Outre Mesure) 1999: Fiesta in Blue - Textes de jazz by Alain Gerber (Editions Alive) 2000: Une histoire de la batterie de jazz. Tome 2, Les années BeBop by Georges Paczynski (Outre Mesure)

2001: Le son que j'ai vu by Roy DeCarava (Phaïdon) 2002: LOUIE by Alain Gerber, (Fayard) 2003: Pour l'amour de Mingus by Sue Graham Mingus (Editions du Layeur). 2004: Bix Beiderbecke, a biography of Jean-Pierre Lion (Ed.Outre Mesure) 2005: Une chronologie du jazz by Philippe Baudoin (Outre Mesure). 2007: Les musiciens de jazz et leurs trois vœux by Pannonica de Koenigswarter (Buchet / Chastel) 2008: Jazz Covers by Joaquim Paulo (Taschen) 2009: Analyzer le jazz by Laurent Cugny (Outre Mesure) and Jazz et société sous l'Occupation by Gérard Régnier (L'Harmattan) 2010: Misterioso - Le petit livre à offrir à un amateur de jazz , texts by Pascal Anquetil , Raphaële Vidaling and Rémi Vimard (Tana Editions) 2011: KO-KO of Alain Pailler (Editions Alter ego) 2012: Petit Dictionnaire incomplet des incompris by Alain Gerber (Éditions Alter ego) 2013: Lâchez-moi by Hampton Hawes (with Don Asher) (13E Note Editions) 2014: Une histoire du jazz en France. Tome 1: Du milieu du XIXe siècle à 1929 by Laurent Cugny (Outre Mesure) and Tal Farlow, Un accord parfait. A Life in Jazz Guitar by Jean-Luc Katchoura with Michele Hyk-Farlow (Paris Jazz Corner) 2015: Lady in Satin by Julia Blackburn (Rivage Rouge / Payot) 2016: Music Is My Mistress by Duke Ellington and Claude Carrière (preface) (Slatkine) 2017: André Hodeir , le jazz et son double by Pierre Fargeton (Symétrie) 2018: Monk , by Youssef Daoudi (éditions Martin de Halleux)

Web links

• Palmares de l'Académie du Jazz 1965-2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Palmarès 1985