Blue Note Records, the world's most respected and longest-running Jazz label, is being commemorated for its 75th Anniversary throughout 2014 and beyond with a broad range of special releases and ...

Moon River; On Green Dolphin Street; What Is This Thing Called Love; Count Every Star; Shadrack; Gooden's Corner; Two For One; Airegin (Alternate Take); Airegin; Nancy; I Concentrate On You; The ...

A great record label is about more than music. Yes, it’s about the quality of that music, the character of that music, the sound of that music. Yet it’s also about things beyond what’s heard. A great ...

The photographer of jazz whose work is art in itself is Roy DeCarava. His book “The Sound I Saw”—a montage of his images and texts that he composed in the early nineteen-sixties but was unpublished ...

Richard Havers tackles the encyclopedic task with enthusiasm and authority, although the writing jumps around chronologically. Blue Note’s recordings range from boogie-woogie piano and the swing of ...

Sophie Huber's documentary 'Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes' chronicles the history of the seminal jazz record label. By Frank Scheck Sophie Huber’s consistently fascinating documentary about Blue ...

On Friday and Saturday, March 15 and 16, Portsmouth Music and Arts Center’s 12th annual Jazz Nights will take place at the Music Hall Loft with two shows each night, one at 7 p.m. and another at 9 p.m ...

<em xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The most storied label in jazz turns 80 this year. This is some of the music that shaped its legacy.</em> Port of Harlem ...

Last week marked the 70th anniversary of the first Blue Note recording session. Since then, the groundbreaking jazz label has been credited as a guiding force in so-called “hard bop.” While that's a ...

A new edition of Richard Havers’ lavishly illustrated history of Blue Note records is an occasion for recalling how that unsurpassed small jazz label was the brainchild of German Jewish refugees in ...

Musicians young and old drop a lot of heavy-duty jazz wisdom throughout Beyond the Notes, a new documentary about Blue Note Records that features commentary from the label’s Sixties stars such as ...

The most storied label in jazz turns 80 this year. Hear the music that shaped its legacy. By Giovanni Russonello After hearing Meade (Lux) Lewis and Albert Ammons at the historic “From Spirituals to ...