JUST MY IMAGINATION …
Back in 2020 BLUE NOTE released an album of “re-imaginings” – new versions of some of their most iconic material. The LP featured reworked and newly recorded Blue Note classics by a selection of...
ARE YOU READY FOR A SECOND HELPING?
After the global critical acclaim heaped upon ‘Blue Note Re:imagined’ compilation, the iconic jazz label’s 2020 showcase for the UK’s rising jazz and urban stars, the Don Was-headed company has, perhaps inevitably, commissioned a...
CHARLES LLOYD & THE MARVELS: ‘Tone Poem’ (Blue Note)
There must be something in the water over at Blue Note Records right now – how, otherwise, could you account for the resurgent creativity of three of its veteran stars, who are all, as...
DR LONNIE SMITH: ‘Breathe’ (Blue Note)
Pairing veteran soul-jazz organist Lonnie Smith with proto-punk rocker and former Stooges’ frontman, Iggy Pop, is an unlikely, almost surreal, musical partnership but it’s one that works as the two tracks that bookend ‘Breathe’...
VARIOUS: ‘Blue Note Re:Imagined’ (Blue Note)
Although 81 years have passed since German-Jewish émigré Alfred Lion co-founded Blue Note Records in New York City, as the label’s new compilation ‘Blue Note Re:Imagined’ clearly shows, the iconic jazz imprint’s revered catalogue...
