1973

AMATEURS

Germany

• Interaction

Austria

• Consort

Belgium

• Full Moon Music

Great Britain

• Tyne River Jazzmen (Out of competition)
• Ron Young Band (Out of competition)

Spain

• BAF
• Grup de Jazz d’Amics de les Arts de Terrassa
• The Squinting Seven

France

• Marc Alibert Quartet (Out of competition)
• Swinging Jazz Group (Out of competition)
• Jean-Pierre Birt Trio
• Les Pissenlits
• Staphyloccocal Nuclease
• Swing Quartet (Out of competition)
• Happy Free Music Ensemble

Sweden

• Maggie’s Blue Five

Switzerland

• Elaoïn
• Formation

Czechoslovakia

• Academic Jazz Band

First prize (traditional jazz): Maggie’s Blue Five

Honorable mention (middle jazz) (first prize not awarded): Swinging Jazz Group

First prize (modern jazz): Elaoïn and Grup de Jazz d’Amics de les Arts de Terrassa, ex-aequo

First prize (free jazz): Formation

Best soloist award: Tomas Ornberg, saxophonist of Maggie’s Blue Five, and Urs Voerkel, pianist of Formation

Best Spanish group award: Grup de Jazz d’Amics de les Arts de Terrassa

PROFESSIONALS

Archipel

• Ives-Marie Seraline: organ, guitar, flute
• Ives Lannot: bass
• Alain Darquet: drums
• Francis Saure: guitar
• Jean-Claude Paisley: congas, bongos
• Guillaume M’Bongo: congas, bongos, vocals
• Jean-Pierre Espil: harmonica, vocals

Benny Waters Quartet

• Benny Waters: soprano sax, tenor sax, clarinet

Clark Terry Big Band

• Clark Terry: trumpet
• Stan Shafran: trumpet
• Oscar Gamby: trumpet
• Vince di Martino: trumpet
• Richard Williams: trumpet
• Ernie Wilkins: sax
• Arnie Lawrence: sax
• Chris Woods: sax
• Jimmy Heath: sax
• George Barrow: sax
• Richard Boone: trombone
• Sonny Costanzo: trombone
• Jack Jeffers: trombone
• Jimmy Wilkins: trombone
• Horace Parlan: piano
• Eddie Jones: bass
• Grady Tate: drums

Blues from Kansas City

• Milt Buckner: piano, vibraphone
• Jay McShann: piano
• Roland Lobligeois: bass
• Paul Gunther: drums
• Michael Silva: drums
• Al Casey: guitar
• Helen Humes: vocals
• Jimmy Slide: dance
• Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown: guitar, violin
• Candy Johnson: tenor sax, baritone sax
• Arnett Cobb: tenor sax