Released 27 October 2008 Artist Katie Noonan Label Sony Music Australia Producers Joe Lovano, Katie Noonan | Blackbird The Music of Lennon and McCartney
(2008) Emperor's Box
(2010) Release date 27 October 2008 Genre Jazz | |
Recorded Legacy Studios, New York City Katie Noonan albums Skin, Fierce Hearts, With Love and Fury, Songs That Made Me | ||
"Blackbird: The Music of Lennon and McCartney" is a studio album by Australian singer songwriter Katie Noonan. The album was released in October 2008 and peaked at number 43 on the ARIA album chart. Blackbird is a combination of John Lennon and Paul McCartney songs. The album includes performances from Ron Carter, Lewis Nash, Joe Lovano, John Scofield and Sam Keevers.
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At the ARIA Music Awards of 2009. the album won 'Best Jazz Album'
Background
In early 2005, Katie heard Joe Lovano playing saxophone at Sydney’s Angel Place. A couple of years later Katie was dreaming up a project where she could combine her two main loves – pop music and the freedom of jazz improvisation. It was then that the seeds of the album were sewn. Noonan spoke to the Joe Lovano and flew to New York City with her husband and two boys to make a record with some of the best jazz musicians in the world.
Track listing
- "In My Life" - 4:25
- "Yesterday" - 5:14
- "For No One" - 3:07
- "Blackbird" - 3:04
- "If I Fell" - 4:15
- "Here, There and Everywhere" - 2:38
- "Norwegian Wood" - 3:31
- "Across the Universe" - 6:08
- "Eleanor Rigby" - 5:05
- "Michelle" - 3:58
- "Because" - 2:40
- "The Long and Winding Road" - 3:56
- "And I Love Her" - 4:06
- "Fool on the Hill" - 7:47
- "I Will" - 2:11