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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...