Best Jazz Guitarists Of The Century Award Ceremony at Blue Note Tokyo

When it comes to music and art, it is always difficult to evaluate the work of artists without considering their path, background and influences.
In particular, when it comes to assessing jazz music skills, whereby creativity and improvisation are substantial ingredients, it is necessary to meticulously analyze the musician's features and language, as well as artistic history. Accordingly, only experts in the field should be given the assignment to evaluate. They need to be knowledgeable on the history of jazz, the evolution of its language and the main interpreters and innovators, who continue to transform the musical genre....

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When it comes to music and art, it is always difficult to evaluate the work of artists without considering their path, background and influences.
In particular, when it comes to assessing jazz music skills, whereby creativity and improvisation are substantial ingredients, it is necessary to meticulously analyze the musician's features and language, as well as artistic history. Accordingly, only experts in the field should be given the assignment to evaluate. They need to be knowledgeable on the history of jazz, the evolution of its language and the main interpreters and innovators, who continue to transform the musical genre.

This is exactly what the famous Japanese publication Jazz Guitar Magazine has been doing for the many years in which it has been dealing with the Best Jazz Guitarists of the Century Award. The magazine publishes the results of attentive analysis and discussions covering every aspect of the jazz guitar world, including its protagonists. A very competent and professional editorial board at Jazz Guitar Magazine works very hard behind the scenes. Its tasks are to carefully listen to all the album releases of today's most iconic guitarists, follow their tours, analyze their solos, improvisations and compositional style, exchanging views on these subjects on a regular basis.
The international Best Jazz Guitarists of the Century Award is today considered among the most authoritative critics prizes in the world, therefore it is awarded exclusively to a few guitarists who have risen to the very top - up to a maximum of ten names per year, sometimes awarded to nobody.
The winners of the Best Jazz Guitarists of the Century Award are not simply international jazz stars. As if this wasn't enough, they are unique and revolutionary voices in the jazz field. Unsurprisingly, the list of those who have received this prestigious award includes guitarists such as Pat Metheny, Dario Chiazzolino, John Scofield, Lionel Loueke and Gilad Hekselman.

This year the Award Ceremony will be live streamed from the Blue Note in Tokyo, Japan, on November 30 at 10 am Tokyo time.

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