Saxophonist Jackie McLean ’s evocative 1965 album Jacknife is the latest entry in Blue Note Records’ Tone Poet series.

The pianist Horace Silver’s ‘The Tokyo Blues’ is the latest Blue Note’s Tone Poet Series. Blue Mitchell features on trumpet.

No Jazz Messengers, no Blue Note. It’s like that. When one thinks of the careers that were born from the Messengers (or Art Blakey’s 1954 Quintet) and who recorded for the label, during or ...

And it was able to do that because New York’s Blue Note records was there, getting everything down on disc. “Blue Note: Uncompromising Expression,” by Richard Havers (Thames & Hudson ...

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 ...

The name Blue Note Records calls to mind a once-regnant sound in jazz: the hard-bop of the 1950s and ’60s, with its springy four-beat swing rhythm, its spare-but-lush horn harmonies, its flinty ...

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“Shades of Blue,” celebrating the iconic jazz label Blue Note Records, will feature renowned musicians Gilbert Castellanos and Joshua White in Chula Vista Thursday. Ticket prices range from $ ...

‘Blue Train’ (1958): John Coltrane’s one and only recording for Blue Note is among his finest records. In a move that was rare for other labels, Blue Note paid Coltrane’s band for its ...

Look, style, and mystique — there’s even a bit of music, too — are very much to be found in “The All Seeing Eye: Blue Note Records Through the Lens of Francis Wolff.” The show is at the ...