Trophies and takeaways at the Deutscher Jazzpreis

[rostasi]

Nate Chinen

[Clunky]

Angelika Niescier is terrific. Such intensity always worth hearing at length. She has a few fabulous releases in Intakt.

 

[T.D.]

...And I was honored to present a Special Jury Prize to the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY — not only as a posthumous nod to Karl Berger, but also as an acknowledgment of the vital work that the CMS, now directed by Billy Martin, still carries forward...

 

I attended a CMS (Creative Music Studio) monthly event yesterday in Kingston, NY. They acknowledged their award and were extremely grateful.

Thanks for posting the link. I'd read the article before the event, otherwise I might not have known what was being referred to.

Edited April 29 by T.D.

[rostasi]

Happy you found the article useful.
I liked how the folks there seem to acknowledge new talent as well as older.

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"...At this point I feel the need to state the obvious: there is no American equivalent to the German Jazz Prize, which honors the music as a field in flux. Here in the States, we tend to bestow honors either to living legends (“masters,” as it were) or brilliant conceptualists (“geniuses”), with not much room left for an artist still making their way..."