A great record label is about more than music. Yes, it’s about the quality of that music, the character of that music, the sound of that music. Yet it’s also about things beyond what’s heard. A great ...

There’s one thing that jazz vibraphonist Joel Ross and his fellow Blue Note Record artists love about the legendary jazz label. It’s not stuck in the past. As music has shifted and convulsed over the ...

With a Sunset Boulevard debut this summer and a blockbuster 2025-2026 calendar, Blue Note is redefining west coast cool in Los Angeles. When Blue Note throws a club launch, it really goes all out. The ...

The acclaimed New York venue Blue Note Jazz Club is going to sweep through L.A.’s music scene in 2025. The Greenwich Village club — long regarded as one of New York’s elite spaces for jazz — will open ...

Michael Cuscuna, a jazz historian and producer who combed the archives of storied Blue Note Records for lost tracks of greats such as Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus, and co-founded a label that ...

“Everything’s new,” singer Emily King marveled aloud as she took the stage at Blue Note Jazz Club’s just-opened Los Angeles outpost last night. “The bathrooms are clean. Fresh toilet paper. It’s a ...

Around halfway through a set during his Blue Note residency last Thursday, André 3000 took some time to survey his tools. The musician crouched over a rug arrayed with around a dozen varieties of the ...

Jazz thrives in cities with history: New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago. These cities are also places where you’d expect a new festival to pop up and have success, taking full advantage of a ...

We had the privilege of breaking bread with a few of the torchbearers of Black music and culture — from comedy to folkloric African diasporic tradition — to talk about a wide spectrum of topics, from ...

Blue Note: RD 112 (35812 2--35815 2); also on label: CDP 7243 8 35811 2 2. "This compilation of recordings is part of America's Jazz Heritage: a Partnership of the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund ...