{"id":11875,"date":"2026-04-26T19:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deutscher-jazzpreis.de\/?p=11875"},"modified":"2026-04-26T19:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:38:18","slug":"die-22-preistraegerinnen-des-deutschen-jazzpreises-2026-stehen-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deutscher-jazzpreis.de\/en\/die-22-preistraegerinnen-des-deutschen-jazzpreises-2026-stehen-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"The 22 award winners of the German Jazz Prize 2026 have been announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the German Jazz Prize 2026 ceremony on 25 April in Bremen, 22 individuals, ensembles and projects from the jazz scene were honoured. Among the central awards were the&nbsp;<em>Lifetime Achievement Award<\/em>&nbsp;presented to<strong>&nbsp;Aki Takase, Rebekka Salomea<\/strong>&nbsp;as&nbsp;<em>Artist of the Year<\/em>, and<strong>&nbsp;Phil Donkin<\/strong>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<em>Album of the Year<\/em>. Internationally recognised artists were also honoured, including&nbsp;<strong>Sullivan Fortner<\/strong>&nbsp;as&nbsp;<em>International Artist of the Year<\/em>&nbsp;and Johnathan Blake for&nbsp;<em>International Album of the Year<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Curious to see who else won this year?\u00a0<\/strong>You\u2019ll find the full list of prize winners\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deutscher-jazzpreis.de\/en\/preistraeger-innen\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The award ceremony took place as part of the 20th anniversary of<em>&nbsp;jazzahead!<\/em>&nbsp;and brought together numerous guests from music, culture and media in the Hanseatic city on the shores of the Weser. The evening was accompanied by a high-profile musical programme, including performances by the<strong>&nbsp;Moses Yoofee Trio, Adeolu, hilde&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>ganavya<\/strong>, who turned the German Jazz Prize into an unmissable live music event and showcased the latest facets of jazz.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Missed it? No worries!<\/strong>\u00a0The recording of the awards ceremony is already available to watch on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GcR64a2hKeQ\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0and will soon be available on demand on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ardmediathek.de\/suche\/deutscher%20jazzpreis\">ARD Mediathek<\/a>, a streaming platform run by German public broadcaster ARD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Still not had enough?\u00a0<\/strong>Then have a listen to the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/de\/playlist\/prize-winners-2026\/pl.6692f03ede024cdc849be642885e0fb5\">winners\u2019 playlist<\/a><\/strong>, curated by\u00a0<em>Apple Music<\/em>! What\u2019s more, as part of a partnership with the music streaming service, you can also dive into the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nl.initiative-musik.de\/c\/206\/9127426\/0\/0\/0\/189181\/371d62e657.html?testmail=yes\">sounds of all the nominees and individual categories<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the German Jazz Prize 2026 ceremony on 25 April in Bremen, 22 individuals, ensembles and projects from the jazz scene were honoured. Among the central awards were the&nbsp;Lifetime Achievement Award&nbsp;presented to&nbsp;Aki Takase, Rebekka Salomea&nbsp;as&nbsp;Artist of the Year, and&nbsp;Phil Donkin&nbsp;for&nbsp;Album of the Year. Internationally recognised artists were also honoured, including&nbsp;Sullivan Fortner&nbsp;as&nbsp;International Artist of the Year&nbsp;and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deutscher-jazzpreis.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deutscher-jazzpreis.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deutscher-jazzpreis.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deutscher-jazzpreis.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deutscher-jazzpreis.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.deutscher-jazzpreis.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11882,"href":"https:\/\/www.deutscher-jazzpreis.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875\/revisions\/11882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deutscher-jazzpreis.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deutscher-jazzpreis.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deutscher-jazzpreis.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}