Pat Metheny Wins ECHO Jazz Award for International Instrumentalist of the Year, Guitar

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Congratulations to Pat Metheny, who has been named the winner of the ECHO Jazz 2015 Award for International Instrumentalist of the Year, Guitar, for his album with Pat Metheny Unity Group, Kin (←→), released last year on Nonesuch Records. Metheny won an ECHO for Tap: John Zorn's Book of Angels Vol. 20 in 2014 and for Orchestrion in 2011.

 

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Congratulations to Pat Metheny, who has been named the winner of the ECHO Jazz 2015 Award for International Instrumentalist of the Year, Guitar, for his album with Pat Metheny Unity Group, Kin (←→), released last year on Nonesuch Records. Metheny won the award in the same category last year for Tap: John Zorn's Book of Angels Vol. 20 and for other instruments for Orchestrion in 2011.

Pat Metheny Unity Group was also nominated for a 2015 ECHO Jazz Award for International Ensemble of the Year for Kin (←→). Nonesuch label mates Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman were also nominated for the ECHO Jazz Awards this year for International Instrumentalists of the Year in the Piano/Keyboards and Saxophone/Woodwinds fields, respectively.

The ECHO Jazz awards are conferred by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie (German Recording Academy), akin to the Grammy Awards in the United States. The organization has handed out the ECHO Music awards annually since 1992 and the ECHO Classic awards since 1994. The ECHO Jazz prizes are the latest addition, having launched in 2010, when Bill Frisell received the inaugural award for International Instrumentalist of the Year, Guitar.

This year's ECHO Jazz Awards ceremony will take place at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg on May 28. For additional details and the complete list of nominees, visit echojazz.de.

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    Pat Metheny Wins ECHO Jazz Award for International Instrumentalist of the Year, Guitar
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    Congratulations to Pat Metheny, who has been named the winner of the ECHO Jazz 2015 Award for International Instrumentalist of the Year, Guitar, for his album with Pat Metheny Unity Group, Kin (←→), released last year on Nonesuch Records. Metheny won the award in the same category last year for Tap: John Zorn's Book of Angels Vol. 20 and for other instruments for Orchestrion in 2011.

    Pat Metheny Unity Group was also nominated for a 2015 ECHO Jazz Award for International Ensemble of the Year for Kin (←→). Nonesuch label mates Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman were also nominated for the ECHO Jazz Awards this year for International Instrumentalists of the Year in the Piano/Keyboards and Saxophone/Woodwinds fields, respectively.

    The ECHO Jazz awards are conferred by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie (German Recording Academy), akin to the Grammy Awards in the United States. The organization has handed out the ECHO Music awards annually since 1992 and the ECHO Classic awards since 1994. The ECHO Jazz prizes are the latest addition, having launched in 2010, when Bill Frisell received the inaugural award for International Instrumentalist of the Year, Guitar.

    This year's ECHO Jazz Awards ceremony will take place at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg on May 28. For additional details and the complete list of nominees, visit echojazz.de.

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