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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

L.A.'s Office of Zoning Administration held a hearing Thursday regarding the ArcLight/Cinerama Dome complex and the upcoming ...

‘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 ...

Grace Jones and Janelle Monáe delivered bold, powerful performances at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! festival’s opening night concert.

The oldest of the Marsalis family sons, saxophonist Branford Marsalis, is releasing a new album on a new label, Blue Note, this spring. The quartet applied Marsalis’ previous approach to classics by ...

We’ve got a pair of tickets to give away to see Grace Jones this Fri/13, 7pm at Blue Note Napa! TO ENTER: Email marke@48hills ...