This article was first published at All About Jazz in April 2001. Since 1995, Blue Note has been pleasing hardcore fans with a special reissue series that sports a very simple premise: w'll print up ...

You know me well enough by now to know that if there are new Blue Note reissues in the shops, then I'm going to tell you about them. Add to that the fact there are some real treasures here, and some ...

Organist Big John Patton’s 1966 record ‘Got A Good Thing Goin’’ is being reissued through Blue Note’s Tone Poet series.

For most followers of Blue Note, hard bop was the order of the day and the label's numerous releases in that genre still serve as evidence of their dominance in the field. Less championed perhaps ...

There are two kinds of obsessive record collectors: those who buy original pressings of rare old LPs because they’re rare and old, and those who buy them because they sound good. In the jazz world one ...

With the reissues in Blue Note’s Rudy Van Gelder series, quality never seems to be the issue; only the depth or breadth of it. The twice-yearly half-dozen titles re-released in the renowned sound ...

THERE are two kinds of obsessive record collectors: those who buy original pressings of rare old LPs because they’re rare and old, and those who buy them because they sound good. In the jazz world one ...

Denver-based record-of-the-month club Vinyl Me, Please (VMP) is digging deep into the history of jazz with a forthcoming box set based around the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records. By Chris ...