Rusconi receives Echo Jazz as Live Act of the Year
The crossover trio Rusconi, led by Swiss pianist and composer Stefan Rusconi, will be awarded the Echo Jazz live act of the year award this year. The Belgian Toots Thielemans receives the Echo Jazz in recognition of his life's work.
Label of the Year is once again ACT; the Munich-based label specializing in jazz is receiving this award for the fourth time in a row. Both award winners, Live Act and Label of the Year, were determined in recent weeks by public voting on jazzthing.de.
Rusconi won over the audience against the greats Wayne Shorter, Enrico Rava, Esperanza Spalding and Rudresh Mahanthappa. Rusconi, consisting of Stefan Rusconi, Fabian Gisler and Claudio Strüby, has been on the road for 6 years and has so far played over 200 concerts, mainly in Europe and Asia, both on renowned festival stages and in indie venues.
