The Prix Django Reinhardt is an award granted by the French

Académie du Jazz The Académie du jazz (English: Jazz Academy) is a non-profit French association created in 1954, which annually awards the best artists and the best musical productions in the world of jazz. The founding president was violinist André Hodeir follo ...

for the best French jazz musician of the year. It is named after

Django Reinhardt Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his Romani nickname Django ( or ), was a Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer. He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe and has been hailed as one of its most ...

. The prize is determined by a jury of jazz journalists, producers, and musicians. In 2006 the double CD ''50 ans Prix Django Reinhardt'' (with booklet) was released for the prize's 50th anniversary.

Winners

* 2017: Fred Nardin * 2016: Paul Lay * 2015: Airelle Besson * 2012: Émile Parisien * 2011:

Nguyên Lê Nguyên Lê (Vietnamese: ''Lê Thành Nguyên''; born 14 January 1959) is a French jazz musician and composer of Vietnamese ancestry. His main instrument is guitar, and he also plays bass guitar and guitar synthesizer. He has released albums ...

* 2010: Sylvain Luc * 2009:

Stéphane Guillaume Stéphane Guillaume (born February 9, 1984) is a Haitian former professional footballer who played as a defender. He spent most of his career playing in the MLS. At international level, he represented the Haiti national team. Career Club Gui ...

* 2008: Médéric Collignon,

Géraldine Laurent Géraldine Laurent (born 18 January 1975) is a French jazz alto saxophonist. Laurent studied classical piano at the Niort conservatoire before changing to alto saxophone at the age of 12. She has been a member of the Christophe Joneau quartet. In ...

* 2007:

Pierre Christophe Pierre Christophe (16 July 1880 – 13 February 1971) was a French animalier sculptor. He studied with the sculptor Georges Gardet, and participated for many years in the annual salon, receiving honorable mention in 1897 and 1899 and first p ...

* 2006: Pierrick Pedron * 2005: François Moutin, Louis Moutin * 2004: Pierre de Bethmann * 2003:

Jacky Terrasson Jacky Terrasson (born November 27, 1965) is a French jazz pianist and composer. Background Terrasson's mother is African-American from Georgia, and his father is French. From his parents he heard classical music as a child. He began piano lesson ...

* 2002:

Bojan Zulfikarpašić Bojan Zulfikarpašić ( sr-cyr, Бојан Зулфикарпашић), known professionally as Bojan Z. (born February 2, 1968) is a Serbian jazz pianist. Early life He started playing and studying piano at the age of 5 in music school "Kosta ...

(Bojan Z) * 2001: Baptiste Trotignon * 2000: Jean-Michel Pilc * 1999: Sophia Domancich * 1998: Manuel Rocheman * 1997: Daniel Huck * 1996: Simon Goubert * 1995: Emmanuel Bex * 1994: Lionel Belmondo, Stéphane Belmondo * 1993: Laurent de Wilde, Sylvain Beuf * 1992: Richard Galliano * 1991:

Jean-Loup Longnon Jean-Loup Longnon (born February 2, 1953, Paris) is a French jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger. He is the nephew of Guy Longnon. Longnon comes from a family of writers and musicians and first studied piano and cello, but at the age of 15 he ...

* 1990: Hervé Sellin * 1989: Laurent Cugny * 1988:

Louis Sclavis Louis Sclavis (born 2 February 1953) is a French jazz musician. He performs on clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone in a variety of contexts, including avant-garde jazz, free jazz, free improvisation and contemporary classical. Life ...

* 1987:

Marc Ducret Marc Ducret (born 19 August 1957) is a contemporary avant-garde jazz guitarist who frequently collaborates with saxophonist Tim Berne. Ducret's guitar style is idiosyncratic, having been called "highly original and very expressive," but also ...

* 1986: Zool Fleischer * 1985: Antoine Hervé * 1984: Marc Bertaux * 1983: Éric Le Lann * 1982:

Michel Petrucciani Michel Petrucciani (; ; 28 December 1962 – 6 January 1999) was a French jazz pianist. From birth he had osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disease that causes brittle bones and, in his case, short stature. He became one of the most accomplish ...

* 1981:

François Couturier François Couturier (born 2 May 1950 in Fleury-les-Aubrais, Orléans) is a French jazz pianist. Biography Couturier began learning piano at the age of six. A year after earning his degree in classical piano and musicology in 1977, he met Jac ...

* 1980:

François Jeanneau François Jeanneau (born June 15, 1935, Paris) is a French jazz saxophonist, flautist, and composer. Jeanneau studied flute under René Leroy at the Paris Conservatory, but was an autodidact on saxophone.Michel Laplace, "Francois Jeanneau". '' The ...

* 1979: Alain Jean-Marie * 1978: Michel Graillier * 1977:

Henri Texier Henri Texier (born 27 January 1945) is a French jazz double bassist. At the age of sixteen, fascinated by the double bass, Texier became a self-taught bassist, crediting Wilbur Ware most as an influence. He formed his first group with Georges ...

* 1976:

Christian Escoudé Christian Escoudé (born 1947) is a French Gypsy jazz guitarist. He grew up in Angoulême and is of Romani descent on his father's side. His father was also a guitarist who was influenced by Django Reinhardt. When Escoudé was ten, his father b ...

* 1975: Joseph Dejean * 1974: Jean-François Jenny-Clark * 1973: Alby Cullaz * 1972: Bernard Lubat * 1971: Ivan Jullien * 1970: François Guin * 1969: Michel Roques * 1968:

Michel Portal Michel Portal (born 27 November 1935) is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of modern European jazz". Early life Portal was born in Bayonne on ...

* 1967:

Jean-Luc Ponty Jean-Luc Ponty (born 29 September 1942) is a French jazz violinist and composer. Early life Ponty was born into a family of classical musicians in Avranches, France. His father taught violin, his mother taught piano. At sixteen, he was admitt ...

* 1966: Gilbert Rovère * 1965: Jean-Louis Chautemps * 1964:

Eddy Louiss Eddy Louiss (2 May 1941 – 30 June 2015) was a French jazz musician. Eddy started playing in his father Pierre's orchestra in the 1950s. Pierre changed the family name from Louise to Louiss. As a vocalist, he was a member of Les Double Six of ...

* 1963:

Pierre Michelot Pierre Michelot (3 March 1928 – 3 July 2005) was a French jazz double bass player and arranger. Early life Michelot was born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris on 3 March 1928. He studied piano from 1936 until 1938. He switched to playin ...

* 1962: Maurice Vander * 1961:

René Urtreger René Urtreger (born July 6, 1934) is a French bebop pianist. Early life Urtreger was born in Paris and began his piano studies at the age of four, studying privately first, and then at the Conservatory. He studied with an orientation toward jaz ...

* 1960:

Georges Arvanitas Georges Arvanitas (June 13, 1931 – September 25, 2005) was a French jazz pianist and organist. Life and career He was born in Marseille, a child of Greek immigrants from Constantinople. At the age of four he began studying piano and initially ...

* 1959: Roger Guérin * 1958: Barney Wilen * 1957: Christian Chevallier * 1956:

Martial Solal Martial Solal (born August 23, 1927) is a French jazz pianist and composer. Biography Solal was born in Algiers, French Algeria, to Algerian Jewish parents. He was persuaded to study clarinet, saxophone, and piano by his mother, who was an oper ...

* 1955:

Guy Lafitte Guy Lafitte (12 January 1927 – 10 June 1998) was a French jazz saxophonist. Career A native of Saint-Gaudens, Haute-Garonne, France, he worked with Mezz Mezzrow from 1951 to 1952 and Big Bill Broonzy in 1951. In 1954 he made Paris his home and ...

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