On 12 January, the Jazz Academy awarded three prizes to Stéphane Guillaume and Laurent Cugny, two jazzmen supported by the BNP Paribas Foundation.

The composer and saxophonist Stéphane Guillaume, who the BNP Paribas Foundation has been supporting over the last two years, won two prizes. He won the Django Reinhardt Prize – a prestigious award recognising the French musician of the year. He also won the French Recording Prize for “Windmills Chronicles”, the album that appeared last autumn, recorded with 11 musicians.

Concerning Laurent Cugny, for whom the BNP Paribas Foundation has been supporting the proposal for a jazz opera “The tectonics of clouds”, he received the Jazz Book Prize for “Analysing jazz” – published by Outre-Mesure, 600 pages.

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