Les Victoires du jazz is a program of annual French jazz awards which grew out of the larger Victoires de la Musique (of which they first featured as a class of awards in 1986). The prizes were then awarded within the Victoires de la musique classique from 1994-2001. In 2002, a ceremony dedicated specifically to jazz was created. [1] [2] [3]
Victoires de la Musique is an annual French award ceremony where the Victoire accolade is delivered by the French Ministry of Culture to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. The classical and jazz versions are the Victoires de la musique classique and Victoires du Jazz.
Jazz music has been popular in France since the 1920s. Its international popularity peaked in the 1930s, and it has been continually enjoyed since.
Franck Avitabile is a jazz pianist.
René Urtreger is a French bebop pianist.
Jean-Jacques Birgé is an independent French musician and filmmaker, at once music composer, film director, multimedia author, sound designer, founder of record label GRRR. Specialist of the relations between sound and pictures, he has been one of the early synthesizer players and home studio creators in France in 1973, and with Un d.m.i. the initiator of the return of silent movies with live orchestra in 1976. His records show the use of samplers since 1980 and computers since 1985.
Giovanni Mirabassi is a Paris-based Italian jazz pianist, born 4 May 1970 in Perugia, Italy. Self-taught, he learned by listening to Bud Powell, Art Tatum, and Oscar Peterson. He is strongly influenced by Enrico Pieranunzi. At seventeen, after a few important experiences in Italy, he settled in Paris in 1992.
Stéphane Belmondo is a French jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, and drummer. Including recordings made with his brother Lionel Belmondo and Yusef Lateef, he won the best French album category (L'Album français de l'année) in 2003, 2004 and 2005, and the best artist award (L'Artiste ou la Formation instrumentale française de l'année) in 2003 and 2004. in the French Victoires du Jazz awards. Along with his brother, he is noted for tribute albums that involve the musicians being honored.
Médéric Collignon is a French jazz vocalist, cornettist and saxhorn player.
Xavier Desandre Navarre, a.k.a. XDN, is a French jazz musician, percussionist and drummer.
The Victoires de la musique classique are an annual French classical music award event founded in 1986. The awards are the classical equivalent of the popular music awards Victoires de la Musique and the Victoires du Jazz. Most of the awards are for actual performers, orchestras, composers, etc. as opposed to the Diapason d'Or given to recordings, though there is an Enregistrement français de musique classique de l'année.
Éric Legnini is a Belgian jazz pianist and bandleader of the Éric Legnini Trio.
Vincent Peirani is a French jazz accordionist, vocalist and composer who has played internationally, collaborating with Denis Colin, François Jeanneau, Youn Sun Nah, Émile Parisien, Michel Portal, Louis Sclavis, and Michael Wollny, among others.
Paris Jazz Festival is a jazz festival in Paris, France, established in 1994.
Georgi Kornazov is a Bulgarian jazz trombonist and composer, who lives in Paris, France.
The Prix Django Reinhardt is an award granted by the French Académie du Jazz for the best French jazz musician of the year. It is named after Django Reinhardt. The prize is determined by a jury of jazz journalists, producers, and musicians.
François Salque is a contemporary French classical cellist.
Émile Parisien is a French soprano and alto saxophonist, jazz musician, and composer.
Claire Désert is a French classical pianist.
Sandra Nkaké is a French-Cameroonian actress and singer.
Philippe Gaillot is a French jazz-fusion guitarist, pianist, singer, and composer. He is also a producer and sound engineer.