Founded by Francis Wolff and Alfred Lion in 1939, Blue Note Records has been synonymous with extraordinary jazz since its inception. If you don’t know the name, you’ve probably heard at least one of ...

Blue Note. The two words resonate in music theory as an ever-so-slightly flatted third in a chord that gives a tune its bluesy color, and, in recording history, as a record label that for decades set ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In 1939, jazz devotee Alfred Lion brought together boogie-woogie pianists Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis to record some duets. The music from that session ...

Blue Note, the venerable jazz label that cracked the pop charts with Norah Jones and Amos Lee, has been elevated by parent EMI to focus on the general adult marketplace. Conglom has restructured its ...

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 — ...

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 His book “The Sound I Saw”—a montage of his images and texts that he composed in the early nineteen-sixties but was unpublished ...

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 ...

Blue Note had its share of tenor battles, too, including the memorable Johnny Griffin date — “A Blowing Session,” recorded just one month after the Jordan/Gilmore date – featuring the diminutive (in ...

Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams were playing in lovely simpatico in 1985... Freddie Hubbard sounds amazingly on-point throughout. This DVD is a richly supplemented version of a videotape of the 1985 ...