Blue Note will soon add the 1956 album ‘Tenorman’ by the Lawrence Marable Quartet featuring James Clay to their acclaimed ...

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 ...

Miles Davis stopped by Chicago last week, and not a moment too soon. “I don’t want to be called a ‘legend.’ … A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do,” a disembodied Davis ...

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 ...

John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter—just hearing these names can evoke memorized melodies. Beyond their enduring influence on jazz, these musicians share a profound ...