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.
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. This year marks the eighty-fifth anniversary of legendary record label Blue Note, ...
As evidence that great music doesn't get stale but instead improves with age, the Blue Note Connoisseur Series releases Passing Ships, a never-before issued little-big band album by composer-pianist ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Standing at a podium before a packed house at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, dapper as usual in a blue pinstriped suit, Bruce Lundvall spoke of his "love affair with jazz, a lifelong ...
Tired of hearing the same holiday jazz playlist every December? This year, Jazz Night in America is doing Christmas differently. We're handing the reins to the ultimate crate-digger: Don Was, ...
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 ...