John Fenton (New Zealand)
President of the judging panel. John is a member of the Jazz Journalists Association, videographer and photographer.
His blog was recently assessed by Blog Feed as being among the top 50 Jazz blogs worldwide.
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Kathryn Shackleton (UK)
Currently booking the artists for Watermill Jazz in Dorking, UK, Kathryn has also been a jazz reviewer for BBC Music, a sound engineer and acted as an agent for the brilliant US trumpet player Abram Wilson. She has been a panellist for the UK [...]
Howard Mandel (USA)
President of the Jazz Journalists Association, author, educator, editor, webcaster, blogger, print journalist and board member of the Jazz Institute of Chicago. Two-time winner of ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music journalism, [...]
Hiroki Sugita (Japan)
Jazz journalist for thirty-two years, Director of jazz website “PJ Portrait in Jazz”. Contributor of the Japanese leading magazine “Swing Journal” (1990-2010) as reviewer, interviewer, discographer and member of a selection committee of Jazz Disc Awards.
Dubi Lenz (Israel)
Broadcaster, editor, artistic director of The Red Sea Jazz Festival - Member, WCO (World Culture Open) consultant board, and head of the jury in the music competition in WCO's festivities in Seoul (September 2004) - Member of the Israeli Education Ministry’s Music Committee.
Beatriz Ortega (Spain)
FeminaJazz Festival founder and producer, Beatriz Ortega is the director and CEO of her own agency representing a variety of jazz talent from Spain. Always promoting and supporting new artists she gives workshops and consulting sessions all over the world [...]
Eddie Becton (USA)
Eddie Becton is an author with over twenty years of jazz experience as a writer, producer, broadcaster, and professor. He taught History of Jazz in America at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, as well as other courses in the African American
Andrea Keller (Australia)
Andrea Keller is a Melbourne-based pianist, composer and improviser. She is an active member of Australia’s contemporary creative jazz community through multiple roles as performer, composer, arranger, recording artist, researcher, teacher, mentor, and curator.
Anna-Maria Nitschke (Netherlands)
Anna-Maria Nitschke is a vocalist & songwriter and senior producer of the Jazz Department at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, home to the largest jazz education program in Europe. As senior producer,
Lars Thor Jensen (Denmark)
Lars Thor Jensen is project manager at JazzDanmark and has been working there since 2011. Lars is doing both national and international projects. The international projects are focusing on countries such as Germany, France and the Nordic countries.
Jacopo Guidi (Italy)
Siena Jazz Artistic and Didactic Director, since 2014 Music Director of Un Tubo Jazz Club in Siena, Jacopo Guidi grown up between Italy and Germany, where he studied saxophone first in Berlin and later in Siena.
