Nominations for this year's Scottish Jazz Awards close on Friday (20 September) and a "longlist" of nominees will be published online next week, the organisers say. A panel of industry professionals will then meet and select their top three and decide upon a winner in each category. A final shortlist will then be published online during the week beginning 9 October. Members of the public can vote for best album from the shortlist selected by the panel with voting open from 9-11 October. The awards themselves, organised by the Scottish Jazz Federation with Scottish newspaper The Herald as a media partner, take place at the Dirty Martini venue in the Edinburgh hotel Le Monde on 21 October.

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