FORMER JURY MEMBERS
Here you can find former jury members of the German Jazz Prize:

Label Manager (enja & yellowbird records)

Owner Donau115

“Late Night Jazz” Presenter and Author; Winner of the German Radio Prize, WDR Jazz Prize for Journalistic Achievements

Artist Manager / Tour Agent / Label

Owner of the Skip Records label

Freelance Cultural Journalist, Presenter and Podcaster, International Music Journalism Award 2021

Freelance Journalist and Curator

Artistic Director Jazz Festival Bingen Swingt, Director schwere reiter musik Munich

Label Manager, Producer, Vocalist

Program Manager North Sea Jazz Festival

Guitarist, Producer; Curator Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) – Projects “The Backroom” and “Black Atlantic”

Freelance Presenter, Author and Editor in the Field of Culture, Music, Jazz for Corso, DLF, WDR and BR, among others.

Comedian

Music Critic and Author

Owner of the Music Company GLM Music

Jazz Singer, Professor of Jazz and Pop Singing at the Mannheim University of Music, Head of the Stimmwerk Singing School

Artistic Producer & Talent Development Metropole Orkest

Jazz Editor rbbKultur, Presenter, Author

Saxophonist and Composer

Poet, Performer, Director, who reads, hosts, sings, and Produces Poetry Films

Communications Manager ACT Music

Percussionist and Singer

Musicologist and Music Educator, Jazz Pianist and Founder of o-tone music

Freelance Curator (e.g. SUPERGAU Festival), Lecturer (HfMT Hamburg), Artistic Director Jazz & The City Festival Salzburg

Pianist, Composer & Podcaster

Founder, President, Recording Artist Motéma Music

Managing Director, Artist Agent and Booker at Handshake Booking, Festival Organiser Honey Lake Sessions.

Curator Counterflows Festival Glasgow, Senior Producer Café OTO

Artist Manager and Agent at Air Artist Agency, Organiser LetterOne RISING STARS Jazz Award

Internationally renowned Jazz Double Bass Player, three-time ECHO Jazz Award winner

Swedish Jazz and Improvisation Singer

Jazz Guitarist, Composer, Lecturer at the University of Lucerne

Artistic Director Enjoy Jazz Festival, Speaker of the UNESCO Cities of Music

Director of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt

Editorial Director WDR 3 Jazz & World

Marketing/Distribution Manager ECM Records

Singer, Composer

Musician, Saxophonist

Journalist and Broadcaster

Actress, Singer

Freelance Jazz Journalist

Vocalist, Arranger, Composer; Queer Cheer Collective

Booking Agent & Tour Promoter (Karsten Jahnke Konzertdirektion), Festival Programming (ELBJAZZ)

Artistic Director CASA DEL JAZZ (Rome), JAZZMI Festival (Milano)

Jazz Singer

Managing Director Traumton Records, Board Member VUT

Music Journalist and Concert Presenter

Co-founder and A&R Director of International Anthem, Chicago USA

Programmer Jazz Maastricht/JazzOut Fest – Advisor Dutch Performing Arts Fund

Flutist, Conceptualist, Composer, Professor of Music at University of Virginia

Booking Agent & Artist Manager Jazzhaus Artists / Jazzhaus Freiburg GmbH

Singer, Songwriter

Recording Artist, Producer, Archivist

Jazz Editor SWR2

Saxophonist and Composer

Founder and Artistic Director of We Jazz

Label Manager for Distribution at Outhere Music, Nomadic Record Dealer; Radio Co-Host of Jazz Programs

Jazz Pianist and Composer

Drummer, Singer, Composer and Musical Producer

Jazz Trumpeter and Professor at the University of Music and Theatre Munich

Opera Singer, Professor in singing

Booker and founder of the maganda agency

Guitarist, Multi-Instrumentalist, Songwriter, Producer

Vocalist, Composer, Professor at the Jazz Institute Berlin

Artistic Director at “The Jazz Gallery” New York City

Music Journalist and Presenter at Bayrischer Rundfunk, Jazz Singer

Percussionist and University Professor

Singer, Composer, Co-Organiser of the PENG Festival

Artistic Director jazzahead! and Sendesaal Bremen

Founder Shoestring Jazz Booking

Radio / Music Journalist, NDR Kultur

Owner / Producer Gearbox Records

Jazz Trumpet Player and CEO of Ella & Louis Jazz Club Mannheim

Booking Agent at Tinka Steinhoff Booking

Radio Program Director / Producer and Tour and Artist Manager

Drummer/Producer

Trumpeter, Pianist, Composer, Founder & Musical Director XJAZZ Festival

Music Critic

Music Producer, Songwriter, DJ, Grammy Nominee, Ivor Novello Award-Winner, Entrepreneur with Focus on Sustainability

Jazz and Soul Singer

Managing Director Moers Kultur GmbH/moers festival

Artist and Concert Manager; Tambour Music Management

Jazz Musician and Pianist

Founder Magnet Festival, Production Team Jazzfest Berlin

Booking Agent, Manager, Tour Promoter, Wolkenstein Agency