In a DIY age, some artists might see diminished benefits in associating with a legacy organization that sports the tagline The Finest in Jazz Since 1939. The company's president sees otherwise. Editor ...

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 Note Records started releasing jazz records 85 years ago this month when German-Jewish immigrant Alfred Lion held the first recording sessions for the label in New York City. Much has changed ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. One of the most storied and influential labels in jazz history, Blue Note Records is celebrating its 70th anniversary - and ...

"All the music on 'Mosaic' is what I would consider to be from the classic period of Blue Note," says pianist Bill Charlap, musical director of a new jazz supergroup called the Blue Note 7. Assembled ...

The music was cool, sophisticated and unavoidably hip. You could tell just by looking at the cover art of any Blue Note album. Then there were the names, the groundbreaking instrumentalists who ...

A player of impeccable technique and a mainstay of the Blue Note label, he recorded constantly as both a leader and a sideman beginning in 1952. By Barry Singer Lou Donaldson, an alto saxophonist who ...