The ARIA Music Award for Best Jazz Album is an award presented within the Fine Arts Awards at the annual ARIA Music Awards.
The award for Best Jazz Album was first presented in 1987, when George Golla Orchestra, received a trophy for their album, Lush Life (1987). Paul Grabowsky has won the award seven times in various guises (leader of the Paul Grabowsky Trio, Paul Grabowsky Sextet, duet with Vince Jones, duet with Katie Noonan, duet with Kate Ceberano and as a member of Wizards Of Oz).
Winners and nominees In the following table, the winner is highlighted in a separate colour, and in boldface; the nominees are those that are not highlighted or in boldface.ARIA Award previous winners.
Year Winner(s) Album title 1987 The George Golla Orchestra Lush Life Various Artists The Esso Australian Jazz Summit Dick Hughes The Last Train For Casablanca Leaves Once In A Blue Moon Vince Jones Tell Me a Secret Maree Montgomery Woman of Mystery 1988 Vince Jones It All Ends Up in Tears The Don Burrows Quintet with the Adelaide Connection Nice 'n' Easy 1989 Wizards of Oz Soundtrack Kate Ceberano & Wendy Matthews You've Always Got The Blues Cool Dudes Cool Dudes James Morrison Postcards From Down Under Various Artists Jazz Live At Soup Plus 1990 Paul Grabowsky Trio Six by Three Allan Browne Genre Jumping Jazz James Morrison Swiss Encounter Live at the Montreaux Jazz Festival Various Artists Jim McLeod's Jazz Tracks Vince Jones Trustworthy Little Sweethearts 1991 Clarion Fracture Zone Blue Shift The Last Straw The Last Straw Dale Barlow Horn James Morrison Snappy Doo Paul Grabowsky The Moon And You 1992 Dale Barlow Hipnotation Ten Part Invention Ten Part Invention Mike Nock Quartet Dark And Curious James Morrison Manner Dangerous Carl Orr Seeking Spirit 1993 Bernie McGann Trio Bernie McGann Trio Vince Jones Future Girl Paul Grabowsky Tee Vee Judy Bailey Notwithstanding James Morrison & Ray Brown Two The Max! 1994 Mike Bukovsky Wanderlust Mike Nock Touch Judy Bailey Sundial The Catholics The Catholics AtmaSphere Flying 1995 Mark Simmonds Freeboppers Fire Bernie McGann Trio McGann McGann Bobby Gebert Trio The Sculptor Australian Art Orchestra Ringing The Ball Backwards The Allan Browne Quartet Birdcalls 1996 Paul Grabowsky Trio When Words Fail The Engine Room Full Steam Ahead Bob Bertles Quintet Rhythm Of The Heart Bob Barnard Live At The Sydney Opera House Barney McAll Exit 1997 Bernie McGann Trio Playground Scott Tinkler Trio Dance Of Delulian Ian Chaplin Quartet Tjapangati Col Nolan Nolans Groove Clarion Fracture Zone Less Stable Elements The Catholics Life On Earth 1998 Chaplin, Tinkler, Rex, Lambie The Future In Today Shelley Scown & The Paul Grabowsky Trio Angel Rolf Stube The Jazz Police Kevin Hunt Plays JS Bach Joe Chindamo Anyone Who Had A Heart 1999 Andrew Speight Quartet Andrew Speight Quartet Scott Tinkler Trio Sofa King Janet Seidel The Way You Wear Your Hat Jamie Oehlers Strut Browne Haywood Stevens Sudden In A Shaft Of Sunlight 2000 James Muller Trio All Out Mike Nock & Marty Ehrlich The Waiting Game Janet Seidel Art Of Lounge Vol 2 The Catholics Barefoot Australian Art Orchestra, Sruthi Laya Ensemble Into The Fire 2001 Bernie McGann Trio Bundeena Paul Grabowsky Trio Three Michelle Nicolle After The Rain Joe Chindamo Trio The Joy Of Standards Andrew Robson Trio Sunman Allan Browne's New Rascals East St Kilda Toodleoo 2002 Andrea Keller Thirteen Sketches The Umbrellas Bravo Nino Rota James Muller Thrum James Morrison Scream Machine Dale Barlow Dale Barlow Live 2003 Andrea Keller Mikrokosmos The World According To James Wayback The Necks Athenaeum, Homebush, Quay & Raab Kevin Hunt Trio Love Walked In Andrew Robson On 2004 The Necks Drive By Paul Grabowsky Tales of Time and Space Mike Nock's Big Small Band Big Small Band Live Michelle Nicolle The Crying Game Alister Spence Trio Flux 2005 Paul Grabowsky & Katie Noonan Before Time Could Change Us The Necks Mosquito/See Through Oehlers & Keevers Grace Aronas Culture Tunnels Andrea Keller Quartet Angels and Rascals 2006 The Necks Chemist Paul Grabowsky & Bernie McGann Always Mark Sholtez Real Street James Muller Kaboom Don Burrows, The Mell-O-Tones & Phillip Sametz Non Stop Flight - Great Music Of The Swing Era 2007 Mike Nock & Dave Liebman Duologue Mark Isaacs Resurgence Joe Chindamo & Graeme Lyall Smokingun Andrea Keller Quartet Little Claps Alister Spence Trio Mercury 2008 Andrea Keller Footprints Oehlers, Grabowsky & Beck Lost And Found Mike Nock Project Meeting Of The Waters Joe Chindamo Duende The Romantic Project Grace Knight Willow Deni Hines & James Morrison The Other Woman 2009 Katie Noonan Blackbird: The Music of Lennon and McCartney Michelle Nicolle The Loveliest Night Mark Isaacs Resurgence Band Tell It Like It Is Kate Ceberano & Mark Isham Bittersweet Dale Barlow, George Coleman Jr, Mark Fitzgibbon & Sam Anning Treat Me Gently 2010 James Morrison & The Idea Of North Feels Like Spring The Necks Silverwater Joseph Tawadros The Hour of Separation Joe Chindamo Another Place Some Other Time Dick & Christa Hughes Twenty First Century Blues 2011 Elixir First Seed Ripening The Idea of North Extraordinary Tale Sarah McKenzie Don't Tempt Me Kristin Berardi & The Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra Kristin Berardi Meets The Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra Allan Browne, Marc Hannaford, Sam Anning Shreveport Stomp 2012 Sarah McKenzie Close Your Eyes James Morrison Snappy Too Bernie McGann Wending Grace Knight Keep Cool Fool Barney McAll Graft Steven Rossitto Night & Day 2013 The Idea of North Smile Tommy Emmanuel & Martin Taylor The Colonel & The Governor Renee Geyer Swing Jonathan Zwartz The Remembering & Forgetting of the Air Andrea Keller Family Portraits 2014 Paul Grabowsky Sextet The Bitter Suite Andrea Keller Quartet with Strings Wave Rider Emma Pask Season Of My Heart Graeme Lyall, John Hoffman, Tony Gould, Ben Robertson, Tony Floyd The Hunters & Pointers Vince Jones The Monash Sessions 2015 Barney McAll Mooroolbark Allan Browne Quintet Ithaca Bound King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Quarters! Paul Grabowsky Solo Sarah McKenzie We Could Be Lovers 2016 Vince Jones & Paul Grabowsky Provanance Don Burrows & James Morrison In Good Company Emma Pask Cosita Divina Stu Hunter The Migration The Idea of North Ballads 2017 James Morrison (with BBC Concert Orchestra and Keith Lockhart) The Great American Songbook Australian Art Orchestra Water Pushes Sand James Morrison & James Morrison Academy Jazz Orchestra James Morrison With His Academy Jazz Orchestra King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Sketches Of Brunswick East The Vampires The Vampires meet Lionel Loueke 2018 Jonathan Zwartz Animarum Barney McAll Hearing the Blood Elixir featuring Katie Noonan Gratitude and Grief Jake Mason Trio The Stranger in the Mirror James Morrison, Patti Austin, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Northey Ella and Louis 2019 Kate Ceberano and Paul Grabowsky Tryst Andrea Keller Transients Vol.1 Angela Davis Little Did They Know Barney McAll Zephyrix Phil Slater The Dark Pattern 2020 Paul Kelly & Paul Grabowsky Please Leave Your Light On Katie Noonan The Sweetest Taboo Luke Howard All That Is Not Solid (Live At Tempo Rubato, Australia / 2020) Mike Nock, Hamish Stuart, Julien Wilson, Jonathan Zwartz This World Nat Bartsch Forever More 2021 Mildlife Automatic Australian Art Orchestra, Reuben Lewis, Tariro Mavondo & Peter Knight Closed Beginnings Kristen Beradi, Sean Foran & Rafael Karlen Haven Petra Haden and the Nick Haywood Quintet Songs from my Father Vazesh The Sacred Key 2022 Mildlife Live from South Channel Island Barney McAll Precious Energy Mike Nock, Hamish Stuart, Julien Wilson & Jonathan Zwartz Another Dance Sam Anning Oaatchapai Springtime Springtime 2023 The Vampires featuring Chris Abrahams Nightjar Lance Gurisik Cull Portal Mike Nock Hearing Sinj Clarke The Height Of Love Surprise Chef Education & Recreation 2024 Mildlife Chorus Audrey Powne From the Fire Elixir (featuring Katie Noonan, Zac Hurren & Ben Hauptmann) A Small Shy Truth Tourismo Torque Vanessa Perica Orchestra The Eye is the First Circle 2025 Lucy Clifford Between Spaces of Knowing Evans Robson Quartet Zenith Lachlan McKenzie Departures TL;DR and Peter Knight Too Long; Didn't Read Touch Sensitive In Paradise
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