Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

You know me well enough by now to know that if there are new Blue Note reissues in the shops, then I'm going to tell you about them. Add to that the fact there are some real treasures here, and some ...

There are two kinds of obsessive record collectors: those who buy original pressings of rare old LPs because they’re rare and old, and those who buy them because they sound good. In the jazz world one ...

With the reissues in Blue Note’s Rudy Van Gelder series, quality never seems to be the issue; only the depth or breadth of it. The twice-yearly half-dozen titles re-released in the renowned sound ...

For most followers of Blue Note, hard bop was the order of the day and the label's numerous releases in that genre still serve as evidence of their dominance in the field. Less championed perhaps ...

THERE are two kinds of obsessive record collectors: those who buy original pressings of rare old LPs because they’re rare and old, and those who buy them because they sound good. In the jazz world one ...

Blue Note has been the jazz label ever since its debut in 1939, the source of so much vital music, a good deal of which might otherwise have gone unrecorded, that for some time the history of jazz and ...

Denver-based record-of-the-month club Vinyl Me, Please (VMP) is digging deep into the history of jazz with a forthcoming box set based around the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records. By Chris ...