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Jazzon Award
Nagrada Jazzon
 Street address: LokalPatriot, Prešernov trg 6, SI-8000 Novo mesto, Slovenia
Mailing address: P O Box 100, SI-8000 Novo mesto, Slovenia
Telephone: 386 (0) 7 337 4371
Fax: 386 (0) 7 337 4601
E-mail: lokalpatriot@lokalpatriot.si
Proprietor: LokalPatriot, Novo Mesto
Contact: Marijan Dovič Art Director
E-mail: marijan.dovic@lokalpatriot.si
Contact: Jure Dolinar Programme Manager
Telephone: 386 (0) 41 399659
E-mail: jure.dolinar@lokalpatriot.si
Dates and duration: Annual
The Jazzon Award, a grand award for the best Slovene jazz composition, is granted each year at the JAZZINTY International Music Workshop and Festival, Novo mesto by LokalPatriot, Novo Mesto with the aim of promoting creative jazz composition in Slovenia. Lokalpatriot organises a pre-selection competition for musical scores, and a final concert in which shortlisted works are performed by young and promising Slovene jazz ensembles. Following the award ceremony the music is published on a CD.
The name and design of the award is based on the legend of Jason and the Argonauts, who fled with the Golden Fleece across the Black Sea and up the Danube in an attempt to escape King Aietes. Thus Jason crossed the territory of today's Slovenia and, according to myth, established the town of Ljubljana en route.
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