We are happy to announce that the German Jazz Prize honors Aki Takase with its Prize for Lifetime Achievement.

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"For decades, the Japanese jazz musician has stood for a distinctive musical language that moves between composition and improvisation, across cultural contexts and aesthetic traditions.

With this award, the jury of the German Jazz Prize honours an artist who understands jazz not as a fixed style, but as an open and constantly evolving practice. Her influence is particularly evident in her participatory way of working and in the many musical connections that have emerged from it."

Congrats, Aki!
See Aki Takase's Intakt discography here