In 2015, he received the Slagwerkkrant Poll Award for Fusion / World Drums for the last time, after being frequently chosen as a jazz drummer of the year. This year our readers again voted him number 1 in the Fusion / World category. This is undoubtedly due to his enormous amount of activities in the past year, his now famous popularity in China and of course his wonderful solo project: the Climate Change album that was recently released.