STORM FORCE
Today, Blue Note Records releases Forces Of Nature: Live At Slugs‘, a previously unissued live recording from 1966 by jazz greats McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson. The album’s producer is Grammy nominee Zev Feldman,...
FORCES OF NATURE
On 22nd November Blue Note Records will release Forces Of Nature: Live At Slugs‘, a previously unheard live performance starring two giants of modern jazz: pianist McCoy Tyner and tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson. The...
WAYNE’S WORLD!
On 23 August 2024, Blue Note Records is set to release a previously unissued recording by the late jazz saxophonist and composer, Wayne Shorter. It’s called Celebration, Volume 1, and will be the first...
BLUE NOTE ANNIVERSARY!
This year iconic jazz label BLUE NOTE will be celebrating its 85th anniversary! In those 85 years the label has delivered only the finest jazz and its catalogue is a definitive history of the...
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...
