Les Victoires du jazz is a program of annual French jazz awards which grew out of the larger

Victoires de la Musique Victoires de la Musique (; en, Victories of Music) 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 ...

(of which they first featured as a class of awards in 1986). The prizes were then awarded within the

Victoires de la musique classique The Victoires de la musique classique (; en, "Victories of Classical Music") 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 Victo ...

from 1994-2001. In 2002, a ceremony dedicated specifically to

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...

was created.

Jazz musician of the year

* 1986 :

Didier Lockwood Didier Lockwood (11 February 1956 – 18 February 2018) was a French violinist. He played in the French rock band Magma in the 1970s, and was known for his use of electric amplification and his experimentation with different sounds on the electri ...

* 1987 :

Stéphane Grappelli Stéphane Grappelli (; 26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997, born Stefano Grappelli) was a French jazz violinist. He is best known as a founder of the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the fi ...

* 1988 :

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 ...

* 1990 :

Artist or group of the year

* 2002 : Emmanuel Bex Trio BFG (avec

Glenn Ferris Glenn Arthur Ferris (born June 27, 1950) is an American jazz trombonist who has also worked in other fields. Outside of jazz he has played for Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, and Duran Duran. He studied classical music from 1958 to 196 ...

et Simon Goubert) * 2003 : Sylvain Luc Trio Sud * 2004 : Lionel Belmondo et Stéphane Belmondo * 2005 : Stéphane Belmondo * 2006 : Daniel Mille * 2007 : Hadouk Trio * 2008 : Andy Emler MégaOctet * 2009 :

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 ...

* 2010 : Médéric Collignon Jus de Bocse * 2011 : Jean-Philippe Viret Trio * 2012 : Bojan Z * 2013 :

Ibrahim Maalouf Ibrahim Maalouf ( ar, ابراهيم معلوف, ; born 5 November 1980 in Beirut) is a French-Lebanese trumpeter, producer, arranger, and composer. In 2022, he became the first Lebanese instrumentalist nominated at the Grammy Awards for his albu ...

* 2014 : Émile Parisien * 2015 : Vincent Peirani * 2016 : * 2017 : * 2018 : Laurent de Wilde * 2019 : Anne Paceo * 2020 : et * 2021 : * 2022 :

Sophie Alour Sophie Alour (born 24 December 1974) is a French jazz musician who plays saxophone, clarinet, and flute. Biography Alour started playing the clarinet at the music school in Quimper, when she was 13 years of age. When she was 19, she started t ...

Group of the year

* 2017 : * 2018 : The Amazing Keystone Big Band * 2019 : directed by Fred Pallem * 2020 : Trio Viret, Dal Sasso Big Band, and

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* 2021 : Belmondo Quintet

Jazz revelation of the year

* 1996 : Jean-Yves D'Angelo

Instrumental revelation (
Frank Ténot Frank Ténot (31 October 1925 – 8 January 2004) was a press agent, pataphysician and jazz critic. He managed a number of publications over the course of his long association with Daniel Filipacchi. He is best remembered as one of the founders o ...
prize)

* 2003 : Baptiste Trotignon * 2004 : Franck Avitabile New Trio * 2005 : Pierre Bertrand et Nicolas Folmer pour le Paris Jazz Big Band * 2006 : Le Sacre du Tympan * 2007 : Médéric Collignon Jus de Bocse * 2008 :

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 ...

et Yaron Herman, lauréats ex-aequo * 2009 : Emile Parisien Quartet * 2010 :

* 2011 : Anne Paceo Triphasé * 2012 : Sandra Nkaké * 2013 : * 2014 : Vincent Peirani * 2015 : * 2016 : ; Rising star * 2017 : * 2018 : * 2019 : * 2020 : , * 2021 : * 2022 :

Vocal artist or group of the year

* 2002 : Anne Ducros * 2003 : Anne Ducros * 2006 :

Elisabeth Kontomanou Elisabeth Kontomanou (born 30 November 1961) is a French jazz singer and composer who has lived in America and Sweden. Life Kontomanou was born in Sète (France) in 1961. She moved to New York in the 1990s and then on to Stockholm where she was ...

* 2008 : André Minvielle * 2009 : Bernard Lubat * 2010 : * 2011 :

David Linx David Linx (born 22 March 1965) is a Belgian jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. ...

and Maria João ; Vocalist of the year * 2017 : * 2018 :

Cécile McLorin Salvant Cécile McLorin Salvant (born August 28, 1989) Kaplan, Fred"Cécile McLorin Salvant's Timeless Jazz" '' The New Yorker'', May 22, 2017. is an American jazz vocalist. She was the winner of the first prize in the Thelonious Monk International Jaz ...

* 2019 : David Linx * 2020 : * 2021 : * 2022 :

Jazz instrumental album of the year

* 1985 :

, ''Out of the Blues'' * 1992 :

, '' Playground'' * 1993 :

André Ceccarelli André "Dédé" Ceccarelli (born 5 January 1946) is a French jazz drummer. Biography After learning to play the drums from his father, Ceccarelli started out playing in the salons of the Hotel Royal Nice Promenade des Anglais at the age of fi ...

, ''Hat Snatcher'' * 1994 :

, ''Promenade with Duke'' * 1995 :

Marcel Azzola Marcel Azzola (10 July 1927 – 21 January 2019) was a French accordionist. He performed with Stan Getz and Jacques Brel, among others. The famous line "" ("Heat up, Marcel") in Brel's song "Vésoul" refers to Azzola, who played the accordion d ...

, ''L'Accordéoniste'' et

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 ...

, ''Conférence de presse'' * 1997 : Richard Galliano, ''New York Tango'' * 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 ...

, ''Smile'' (Blue Note / EMI) * 2004 : Lionel Belmondo et Stéphane Belmondo, ''Hymne au soleil'' (B-Flat recordings/Discograph) * 2005 : Stéphane Belmondo, ''Wonderland'' (B-Flat recordings/Discograph) * 2006 : Lionel Belmondo, Stéphane Belmondo et

Yusef Lateef Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston; October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in America. Although Lateef's main instruments ...

, ''Influence'' (B-Flat recordings/Discograph) * 2007 :

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 ...

''Birdwatcher'' et Bojan Z, ''Xenophonia'' (Ex Aequo) * 2008 : Pierre de Bethmann, ''Oui'' (Nocturne) * 2009 : Orchestre national de jazz Daniel Yvinec, ''Around Robert Wyatt'' (Bee jazz/Abeille Musique) * 2010 : Andy Emler Megaoctet, ''Crouch, touch, engage'' (Naïve) * 2011 : Éric Legnini & The Afro Jazz Beat, ''The Vox'' (Discograph) * 2013 : Médéric Collignon et le Jus de Bocse, ''À la recherche du roi frippé'', (Just Looking Production) * 2014 : & Supersonic, ''Thomas de Pourquery & Supersonic Play

Sun Ra Le Sony'r Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific ou ...

'', (Quark/L'Autre Distribution) * 2015 : , ''Nouvelle vague'' * 2016 : , ''Mechanics'' * 2020 :

, ''Cooking'' * 2021 :

, ''MP85'', produced, directed and arranged by Bojan Z (Label Bleu) * 2022 :

, ''Ghost Song'', (Nonesuch) ;"Sensation" album of the year : * 2017 : Émile Parisien, ''Sfumato'' * 2018 : Roberto Negro, ''Badada'' * 2019 : Vincent Peirani, ''Living Being II (Night Walker)'' ;Unclassable album of the year : * 2017 : & Caja Negra, ''Joy'' * 2018 : , ''Music is My Hope'' * 2019 : (نيسم جلال), ''Quest Of The Invisible (2CD)'' ;World Music album of the year * 2020 : , ''Visto en el Jueves'' * 2021 : San Salvador, ''La grande folie'' * 2022 : Piers Farcini, ''Shapes of the fall''

Honor award

* 2010 : Marcus Miller et

George Benson George Washington Benson (born March 22, 1943) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He began his professional career at the age of 19 as a jazz guitarist. A former child prodigy, Benson first came to prominence in the 1960s, play ...

* 2011 :

* 2012 :

Maceo Parker Maceo Parker (; born February 14, 1943) is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s and Prince in the 2000s. Parker was a prominent soloist on many o ...

et Jean-Philippe Allard * 2017 :

Guy Le Querrec Guy Le Querrec (born 1941 in Paris, France) is a French photographer and filmmaker, noted for his documentary images of jazz musicians. He is a member of Magnum Photos. Career Le Querrec took his first photographs as a teenager using a basic Fex ...

(photographer) * 2018 :

Rhoda Scott Rhoda Scott (born July 3, 1938) is an American soul jazz organist. Scott was first attracted to the organ in her father’s church at age seven. "It's really the most beautiful instrument in the world", she stated in a 2002 interview. "The firs ...

* 2019 :

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 ...

Gregory Porter Gregory Porter (born November 4, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He has twice won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album: first in 2014 for ''Liquid Spirit'' and then again in 2017 for '' Take Me to the Alley''. Early l ...

* 2020 :

Orchestre national de jazz Orchestra National de Jazz is a French jazz ensemble originally created at the initiation of Jack Lang, at that time Minister of Culture. Its first leader was François Jeanneau. Members ONJ François Jeanneau, 1986 * François Jeanneau : s ...

* 2021 : Alain Jean-Marie{{Cite web , lang = fr , author= Yasmina Yacou , title = Le pianiste guadeloupéen Alain Jean-Marie honoré aux Victoires du Jazz 2021 , url = https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/guadeloupe/le-pianiste-guadeloupeen-alain-jean-marie-honore-aux-victoires-du-jazz-2021-1123294.html , date= 8 October 2021 , website= La Première , access-date = 23 June 2022 * 2022 :

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 ...

Prizes no longer awarded

Blues album of the year

* 2003 :

Jean-Jacques Milteau Jean-Jacques Milteau (born 17 April 1950, Paris) is a French blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter, as well as radio presenter. Career Milteau became interested in the harmonica when he first heard folk and rock music (such as Bob D ...

Midem prize

* 2003 :

Esbjörn Svensson Bror Fredrik "Esbjörn" Svensson (16 April 1964 – 14 June 2008) was a Swedish jazz pianist and founder of the jazz group Esbjörn Svensson Trio, commonly known as e.s.t. Svensson became one of Europe's most successful jazz musicians at the tur ...

* 2004 :

Norah Jones Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. She has won several awards for her music and as of 2012, has sold more than 50 million records worldwide. ''Billboard'' named her the ...

(Blue Note/EMI) * 2006 : Tineke Postma

People's choice prize

* 2003 : Captain Mercier * 2004 : Lionel et Stéphane Belmondo ''Hymne au soleil'' (B-Flat recordings/Discograph) * 2005 :

Erik Truffaz Erik Truffaz (born 3 April 1960 in Chêne-Bougeries, Switzerland) is a French jazz trumpeter, infusing elements of hip hop, rock and roll and dance music into his compositions. Early life Truffaz was introduced to music by his father, a saxop ...

, Saloua * 2009 : Patrick Artero ''Vaudoo'' (Plus Loin/Harmonia Mundi)

International Artist or group of the year

* 2004 :

Richard Bona Richard Bona (born 28 October 1967) is a Cameroon-born American multi-instrumentalist and singer. Early life Bona Penda Nya Yuma Elolo was born in Minta, Cameroon, into a family of musicians, which enabled him to start learning music from a y ...

(Universal, France/Universal) * 2005 : Madeleine Peyroux

International Album French production of the year

* 2010 : ''Chamber Music'' :

Ballaké Sissoko Ballaké Sissoko (born 1968) is a Malian player of the kora. He has worked with Toumani Diabaté and Taj Mahal, and is a member of the group 3MA with Driss El Maloumi and Rajery. Biography Ballaké's father, Djelimady Sissoko, was a notable mus ...

& Vincent Segal, (No Format/Universal) * 2011 : ''À fable'' :

Tigran Hamasyan Tigran Hamasyan ( hy, Տիգրան Համասյան; born July 17, 1987) is an Armenian jazz pianist and composer. He plays mostly original compositions, which are strongly influenced by the Armenian folk tradition, often using its scales and mod ...

Verve Records Verve Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group (UMG). Founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, the label is home to the world's largest jazz catalogue, which includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simon ...

References

External links

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