<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 ...

Sean Moen displays his collection of Blue Note albums during the month of March at the Crete Public Library, 1177 N. Main St. Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred ...

This label’s 86-year run has been one of the most storied in jazz — and it’s still going. Hear tracks by Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, Robert Glasper and more from the Blue Note catalog.

The mighty Blue Note Records jazz label was founded 85 years ago, and that rich, vibrant legacy will be celebrated with a 35-date national tour that kicks off this week and stretches into spring.

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 ...

She was revered in the jazz world as a chance taker who communicated an effervescent joy in the pure act of singing. By Barry Singer This label’s 86-year run has been one of the most storied in jazz — ...

Joe Chambers thought his new album was finished. Then, the Wilmington-based jazz musician, composer and bandleader got a call from a former student, a pianist and fellow composer named Andrès Vial, ...

Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard (1938 -2008) began his professional jazz journey in 1960 as a full-blooded hard bopper, recording his first album in that year for Blue Note Records, Open Sesame. Much of the ...

Michael Cuscuna, a jazz historian and producer who combed the archives of storied Blue Note Records for lost tracks of greats such as Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus, and co-founded a label that ...

Jazz listeners with long memories will remember that Charles Lloyd was not always as revered as he is today. In the 1960s, his association with the "Summer of Love" and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury ...

The most storied label in jazz turns 80 this year. This is some of the music that shaped its legacy. Port of Harlem Jazzmen, ‘Mighty Blues’ (1939): After hearing the Meade (Lux) Lewis and Albert ...