Katie Noonan has won the gong for best jazz album at the ARIA Artisan and Fine Arts Awards for Blackbird, The Music Of Lennon and McCartney
See the list of nominees
And Lingua Franca, a band led by James Greening and Andrew Robson, won the the 2009 Australian Independent Records (AIR) award for Best Independent Jazz Album for The World According to James Plays the Music of Andrew Robson
Andrew said: “the list of nominees was very strong and it was great to be in such fine company”.
The other nominees were:
Greg Coffin Trio
It’s Neither Either Or. It’s Both And.
Julien Wilson and Stephen Magnusson
Kaleidoscopic
Sam Anning, Alan Browne and Mark Hannaford
Homage
The Mark Ginsberg Band
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