German Jazz Award

The German Jazz Award, Albert Mangelsdorff Prize, is next to the Hans Koller Prize of the most important jazz prize in the German-speaking world and is considered the highest honor for a German jazz musician. It is awarded in two-year intervals by the Union of German jazz musician to an "outstanding and epoch- defining jazz personality ".

The award was named after Albert Mangelsdorff, the most famous trombonist of the European jazz scene, and is equipped by the GEMA Foundation with 15,000 euros. Usually, he will be awarded later this year as part of a jazz festival and goes occasionally, the "frontier worker" between jazz and other styles of music, such as the 2003 Berlin Jazz Festival to the pianist and composer Ulrike Haage.

2011, the German Jazz Prize is awarded for the tenth time. The previous and the designated winners are:

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