JUDGES

Iliana Ilieva (Bulgaria)

Iliana founded Big Bang Booking & Management Agency in 2015. She is not a musician, but she is a music lover. A lawyer by profession loves good and unique music. She travels around the world in search of new and inspiring music bands.

Mery Zimny (Poland)

Mery Zimny is a music journalist based in Kraków, Poland. Co-founder of internet radio JAZZKULTURA. She collaborates with the Jazz Forum magazine. She also wrote to: Jazzpress, Gazeta Magnetofonowa, Ruch Muzyczny. For 2,5 years had worked at Off Radio Kraków.

Ralph Gluch (Switzerland)

Ralph Gluch works for 35 years as booking-agent. Collaboration among others at the moment with Craig Taborn, Ray Anderson, Erika Stucky, Tim Berne, Vadim Neselovskyi, Hank Roberts, Zoh Amba, Tomeka Reid, Luciano Biondini.

Jorge Grimaldos (Spain)

Film and television teacher and sound engineer with 40 years of experience in the audiovisual industry. He is also a musician and producer that has been presenting and directing the radio program and specialized web site Jazz Time Magazine for 20 years.

Marcela Breton (Colombia)

Marcela Breton is a Colombian-born jazz and literary critic. She is the editor of Hot and Cool : Jazz Short Stories and Rhythm and Revolt : Tales of the Antilles. Her work has appeared in various periodicals, including,

Paul Pace (UK)

Music bookings coordinator at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London. Ronnie Scott's has remained a central constant in Paul's lifelong love affair with jazz. He first visited the club to see the seemingly effortlessly swinging US tenor sax legend Zoot Sims in 1972.

Tor Hammerø (Norway)

Tor Hammerø is a reknowned Norwegian journalist. He has been working mainly with the biggest Norwegian commercial TV-channel TV 2 for almost 20 years.

Kodi Hutchinson (Canada)

Known as the host of CKUA’s ‘A Time for Jazz’, Kodi also heads award-winning record label, Chronograph Records, featuring top jazz musicians strictly from Western Canada. One of the most active professional musicians in the Western Canadian scene,

Vangelis Aragiannis (Greece)

Vangelis Aragiannis has been writing music reviews for over twenty years, published in various publications and websites (among them is the www.jazzntzaz.gr magazine). He runs the music website jazzbuzz.gr, in which he writes original articles, record reviews,[...]

Arnaldo DeSouteiro (Brazil)

Record Producer (Verve, CTI, JSR, Milestone, Sony and other labels), Jazz & Brazilian Music Historian, Manager, Journalist, Publicist, Screenplay Writer, Arranger, Composer, Percussionist, Educator, member of Jazz Journalists Association, and voting member of NARAS-GRAMMY.

Jagadeesh Ramanujam Mudambi (India)

Director of the Bangalore School of Music, heading the Jazz & Contemporary music Dept., Music Relations, concerts, events, programming. He was also involved in programming, producing a Jazz programme on air on Radio Indigo [...]

Ermanno Basso (Italy)

Ermanno Basso has been active in the world of international music for over 35 years where he has held various roles, covering all the roles of the music industry. Since 1997 he has been producer and label manager of the Kepach Music group based in Rome and New York, with a catalog of over 1000 titles for the labels: