The second instalment of Blue Note Re:imagined comprises sixteen revamps of tunes from the label's back catalogue, newly recorded by a cohort of rising British soul, R&B and, listed last here for a ...

Blue Note Records artists Kandace Springs, James Carter and James Francies will commemorate the iconic record label’s 80th birthday on Nov. 13 with a performance at the John P. Murphy Foundation ...

Blue Note Records started releasing jazz records 85 years ago this month when German-Jewish immigrant Alfred Lion held the first recording sessions for the label in New York City. Much has changed ...

Personnel Includes Such Classic Blue Note Artists As Art Blakey, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Jimmy Smith, Cecil Taylor, And McCoy Tyner The newly edited video ...

John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter—just hearing these names can evoke memorized melodies. Beyond their enduring influence on jazz, these musicians share a profound ...

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.

There’s one thing that jazz vibraphonist Joel Ross and his fellow Blue Note Record artists love about the legendary jazz label. It’s not stuck in the past. As music has shifted and convulsed over the ...

Jazz was born in America, and helped create a new America. An upstart art, this revolutionary music didn’t come from old European capitals but from Southern cities and Northern slums. A hot, hip ...

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 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 ...