I really like Kenny Burrell, and I really want this CD. It's a great record. You just can't buy it easily or cheaply, at least not on Blue Note. Yep, bebop congas. The album starts with a real ...

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: ”The Big Beat” (Blue Note LP and CD), the first recording of Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter together. ”Moanin”` (Blue Note LP and CD), with Morgan and tenor saxman ...

It was the phone call of a lifetime. Chicago singer Kurt Elling was fast asleep one morning a few weeks ago when the ringing phone woke him. On the line was Bruce Lundvall, president of Blue Note ...

The music world has changed considerably since Michael Cuscuna and Charlie Lourie founded their boutique reissue label Mosaic Records back in 1983. From its inception, vinyl was still the preferred ...

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 ...

Vocalist, poet, author and activist Gil Scott-Heron returns to the Blue Note for two nights only from March 2 - 3 upon the release of his first recording in 16 years, the highly anticipated I'm New ...

Learn about the care and artistry involved in recreating the album jackets and liner notes for every Blue Note Tone Poet Series record. Listen to "The Meat and Potatoes of the Old Style Tone Poet ...

The hottest quartet in jazz is led by Wayne Shorter, age 79, and Without a Net is an event — it’s just the third album set down by the quartet he formed in 2000, with Danilo Perez, piano; Brian Blade, ...