The Nicolas DOR Prize was named after the late Belgian jazz and tv personnality who, associated with Jean-Marie PETERKEN (in charge now of the Jazz à Liège Festival and the "Maison du jazz" in the same town) also organized the historical Comblain-La-Tour jazz Festival until the mid-sixties.
The Prize (now 60.000 BEF), created in 1992 with the support of the PAB/BAP (Belgian Artistic Promotion) of SABAM (Belgian Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers), goes each year to the best Belgian band that plays original compositions during Jazz à Liège Festival.
