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Bill Frisell
Four [ Blue Note / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Bill Frisell convenes a new line-up of musical friends on his third Blue Note album Four, which features the acclaimed guitarist with Greg Tardy on saxophone and clarinet, Gerald Clayton on piano, and Johnathan Blake on drums. |
Charlie Hunter
Bing Bing Bing (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Charlie Hunter's 1995 Blue Note debut Bing Bing Bing! was a groove-heavy tour-de-force that marked the arrival of a virtuosic guitarist whose unique concept on his 8-string guitar produced music that was both impressive and irrepressible. Hunter's... |
Chet Baker & Art Pepper
Picture Of Heath (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Having teamed up on two prior Pacific Jazz recordings, trumpeter Chet Baker & alto saxophonist Art Pepper continued their fruitful collaboration with the supremely swinging 1956 album Picture of Heath (which was originally released as Playboys until... |
Dexter Gordon
Doin' Allright (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] |
Dexter Gordon
A Swingin' Affair (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] Just 2 days after saxophonist Dexter Gordon recorded his classic album GO! in August 1962 he brought the same quartet with pianist Sonny Clark, bassist Butch Warren, and drummer Billy Higgins back into Rudy Van Gelder's studio to record the equally... |
Donald Byrd
At The Half Note Cafe (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 3/Feb/2023 ] In November 1960, trumpeter Donald Byrd brought his quintet into the Half Note Café in New York City to record this soulful, swinging, and highly enjoyable live set of hard bop featuring Pepper Adams on baritone saxophone, Duke Pearson on piano,... |
Donald Byrd
Ethiopian Nights (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Dec/2022 ] For two days in August 1971, Donald Byrd took a powerhouse band to A&M studios in Los Angeles to record the jazz-funk exploration Ethiopian Knights, continuing his evolution from high-flying hard bop trumpeter to R&B/funk fusion pioneer. . Consisting... |
Donald Byrd
A New Perspective (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Donald Byrd presented A New Perspective with his magnificent 1963 album for band and voices which wove the essence of spirituals into modern jazz with arrangements by Duke Pearson and contributions from Hank Mobley, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Burrell, and... |
Donald Byrd
Places And Spaces (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 30/Jun/2023 ] Donald Byrd's 1975 fusion classic Places and Spaces was the culmination of the legendary trumpeter's vibrant latter Blue Note years. Byrd had begun recording for Blue Note in 1958, and over two decades evolved from a top-notch hard bop trumpeter into... |
Donald Byrd
Slow Drag (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Jun/2023 ] Donald Byrd's 1967 album Slow Drag was one of the last pure hard bop records the trumpeter would make before his music began evolving towards fusion. Byrd flies high on this gratifying set featuring alto saxophonist Sonny Red, pianist Cedar Walton,... |
Herbie Hancock
Maiden Voyage [ Blue Note / CD - released 14/Jun/1999 ] |
Horace Silver
Blowin' The Blues Away (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP)) [ Blue Note / LP - released 15/Sep/2023 ] The Horace Silver Quintet of 1959 was a hard bop juggernaut featuring the great pianist and composer with trumpeter Blue Mitchell, saxophonist Junior Cook, bassist Gene Taylor, and drummer Louis Hayes. The band had already cut the excellent album... |
Jack Wilson
Easterly Winds (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ] The Chicago-born pianist and composer Jack Wilson enjoyed a wide-range of musical associations including work with the likes of Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Lou Rawls, Gerald Wilson, Roy Ayers, and recording leader dates for Atlantic before he... |
Jackie Mclean
Destination Out (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Dec/2022 ] When Jackie McLean began recording for Blue Note in 1959, the alto saxophonist had already been a mainstay of the New York jazz scene for nearly a decade, having spent the entire 1950s cutting his teeth alongside bebop legends. like Miles Davis and... |
Jackie McLean
A Fickle Sonance (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] |
Johnny Griffin
Introducing Johnny Griffin (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] |
Meshell Ndegeocello
The Omnichord Real Book [ Blue Note / CD - released 16/Jun/2023 ] Acclaimed GRAMMY-winning multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello makes her Blue Note Records debut with The Omnichord Real Book, a visionary, expansive, and deeply jazz-influenced album that marks the start of a new chapter... |
Meshell Ndegeocello
The Omnichord Real Book (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Jun/2023 ] Acclaimed GRAMMY-winning multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello makes her Blue Note Records debut with The Omnichord Real Book, a visionary, expansive, and deeply jazz-influenced album that marks the start of a new chapter... |
Miles Davis
Volume 2 (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis was still near the start of his storied career when he cut the three sessions that comprise his Blue Note recordings in 1952, 1953, and 1954. Blue Note later compiled the tracks into two 12" LPs as part of the 1500... |
Norah Jones
Visions (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Nine-time GRAMMY® winning singer, songwriter, and pianist Norah Jones releases ninth studio album, Visions, in collaboration with producer and multi-instrumentalist Leon Michels. Visions is a vibrant and joyous 12-song set that finds Jones singing... |
Robert Glasper
In My Element (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 16/Jun/2023 ] The release of pianist Robert Glasper's acclaimed Blue Note debut Canvas in 2005 signaled the arrival of a singular new voice in jazz, and his 2007 follow-up In My Element delivered on that promise by solidifying Glasper's status as a rising star who... |
St Germain
Tourist [ Blue Note / CD - released 30/Nov/2015 ] French producer Ludovic Navarre's acid jazz / dance fusion classic from 2000, now remastered and even better than before. |
Various Artists
Here It Is: A Tribute To Leonard Cohen (Double Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 4/Nov/2022 ] 4-time GRAMMY-winning producer Larry Klein, who produced Herbie Hancock's GRAMMY Album of the Year winning release River: The Joni Letters, has assembled another extraordinary star-studded project with Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen. This... |
Various Artists / Sidney Bechet, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell, Herbie Hancock, Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson, etc
Icon - The Best of Blue Note (2CD) [ Blue Note Records / 2 CD - released 21/Mar/2014 ] As part of the celebrations to mark the 75th Anniversary of the iconic jazz label, The Best Of Blue Note brings together 22 outstanding tracks from the vaults of Blue Note to represent 75 years of jazz history. Featuring tracks from jazz legends... |
Andrew Hill
Point Of Departure (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] In Andrew Hill, Alfred Lion believed he had found another pianist and composer who had as unique and important a voice as Thelonious Monk. Hill debuted on Blue Note in 1963 with a staggering burst of creativity that produced four classic albums-Black... |
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Moanin' [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 3/May/1999 ] Recorded in 1958, 'Moanin'' is an essential chapter in the history of jazz rhythm, and jazz itself. This Rudy Van Gelder re-mastered edition features a previously unissued bonus track. |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Indestructable (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Dec/2022 ] Drummer Art Blakey recorded Indestructible - his last album for Blue Note - in 1964 with a powerful sextet of The Jazz Messengers consisting of Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Cedar Walton (piano ) and... |
Artemis
In Real Time [ Blue Note / CD - released 5/May/2023 ] Three years after the release of ARTEMIS' critically acclaimed self-titled debut album, the ensemble returns with a marvelous follow-up that highlights the improvisational strength of its members as well as their respective gifts as composers. |
Big John Patton
Oh Baby! (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 21/Oct/2022 ] Following the success of Jimmy Smith, Blue Note expanded its stable of Hammond B3 organ whizzes in the 1960s with several master practitioners of the instrument including the soulful Kansas City born dynamo Big John Patton who first appeared as a... |
Bill Frisell
Valentine [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 14/Aug/2020 ] The debut recording of guitarist Bill Frisell's trio with bassist Thomas Morgan & drummer Rudy Royston is a wide-ranging 13 song set that mixes Frisell originals new & old, jazz standards, traditional songs, and covers. |
Blue Mitchell
Bring It Home To Me (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Trumpeter Blue Mitchell had been a sideman on Blue Note sessions led by Lou Donaldson, Jimmy Smith, Jackie McLean, and appeared on numerous classics as a member of the Horace Silver Quintet before he began recording his own leader albums for the... |
Blues Walk
Lou Donaldson [ Blue Note / LP - released 17/Jun/2022 ] Lou Donaldson's undisputed masterpiece, Blues Walk, marks the point where the altoist began to decisively modify his heavy Charlie Parker influence and add a smoky, bluesy flavor of his own. The material is still firmly in the bebop style, and the... |
Bobbi Humphrey
Fancy Dancer (LP) [ Universal / LP - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Bobbi Humphrey was one of the most prominent stars on the Blue Note roster of the 1970s. The flutist debuted on the label in 1971 with Flute In the first in a run of six creative and highly enjoyable albums. On her breakout 1973 album Blacks and... |
Bobby Hutcherson
Stick-Up! (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 4/Nov/2022 ] Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson's 1966 album Stick-Up! found him in the company of a new band line-up with Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Lewis, and Billy Higgins. The quintet covers a vast expanse of post-bop territory on 5 Hutcherson originals... |
Bud Powell
Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1, 1949-51 (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Jan/2024 ] The amazing bebop piano genius Bud Powell made his most enduring recordings as a leader for Blue Note. Powell's 1949 and 1951 quintet and trio sessions were compiled on the 12" LP The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 (BLP 1503) in 1955 featuring the... |
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Cannonball Adderley
Somethin' Else [with bonus track] [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 9/Sep/1999 ] Recorded in 1958 at Van Gelder Studio. This European import CD features a bonus track. |
Cassandra Wilson
Blue Light 'Til Dawn (Double Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 15/Apr/2022 ] One of the most distinctive voices in modern jazz, Cassandra Wilson made her artistic breakthrough with her visionary 1993 Blue Note debut Blue Light 'Til Dawn. Wilson wove an alluring tapestry of jazz, blues, folk, and R&B into a singular sound that... |
Cassandra Wilson
Loverly [ Blue Note / CD - released 9/Jun/2008 ] |
Cautious Clay
Karpeh [ Blue Note / CD - released 18/Aug/2023 ] New York based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Cautious Clay takes a giant artistic leap forward with an ambitious yet introspective album about growth, conceptions of intimacy, and lineage that reveals a new side of his... |
Cautious Clay
Karpeh (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Aug/2023 ] New York based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Cautious Clay takes a giant artistic leap forward with an ambitious yet introspective album about growth, conceptions of intimacy, and lineage that reveals a new side of his... |
