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 ...

Mosaic Records Presents "The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70" - 8 CDs with 74 tracks from the second great phase of Hank Mobley's career in state-of-the-art sound. With all the ...

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 ...

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, ...

For its 75th anniversary, the venerable Blue Note Records wanted to celebrate jazz's present as much as its past. The label's current roster includes some of today's most dynamic composers and players ...

Trumpeter Blanchard’s first recording in four years delivers some surprises — tunes that border on the surreal and psychedelic, his trumpet electronically enhanced in places — as well as what you’d ...

Founded by Francis Wolff and Alfred Lion in 1939, Blue Note Records has been synonymous with extraordinary jazz since its inception. If you don’t know the name, you’ve probably heard at least one of ...

Hear music by the photographed musicians at Take Five, NPR's weekly jazz sampler. When the jazz label Blue Note Records was formed 70 years ago, jazz had a sound, but hardly an identifiable face.

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 ...