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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
A Night In Tunisia Blue Note Classic (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Oct/2024 ] One of the greatest line-ups of drummer Art Blakey's hard bop finishing school The Jazz Messengers coalesced in 1960 when tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter joined trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt for the recording... |
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Benmont Tench
You Should Be So Lucky [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 21/Feb/2014 ] The debut solo album from Benmont Tench, You Should Be So Lucky, was recorded to tape at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles and features Tench handling lead vocals, piano and organs, joined by a team of collaborators including a core band of Don Was, Ethan... |
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Big John Patton
Let 'Em Roll (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 1/Sep/2023 ] Blue Note's roster of Hammond B3 organists was a vibrant and varied bunch that ran the stylistic gamut from Jimmy Smith's virtuosic innovations to Larry Young's horizon-expanding explorations. Kansas City born dynamo Big John Patton operated in a... |
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Bill Evans
The Paris Concert - Edition Two [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 2/Apr/2001 ] |
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Bill Frisell
Harmony (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 8/Nov/2019 ] |
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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... |
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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... |
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Hutcherson, Bobby
Dialogue 180G [ Blue Note / LP - released 10/May/2013 ] |
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Bobby Hutcherson
Happenings (Blue Note Classic LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Apr/2024 ] The crystalline sound of Bobby Hutcherson's vibraphone was an essential element of a broad range of Blue Note albums throughout the 1960s, spanning the stylistic spectrum from the hard bop of Grant Green's Idle Moments to the post-bop of Joe... |
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Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Land
San Francisco (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] The musical partnership between vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson- a Blue Note stalwart since his arrival on the New York jazz scene in 1963-and tenor saxophonist Harold Land fully blossomed on the 1970 album San Francisco. Though the musicians had... |
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Branford Marsalis Quartet
Belonging [ Blue Note / CD - released 28/Mar/2025 ] Marsalis admits that he was into other music when Belonging was released in 1974. "I was a freshman in high school, listening to R&B," he recalls. "I didn't know Belonging existed." That changed once he shifted his focus to jazz, although he was only... |
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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. |
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Cassandra Wilson
Blue Light 'til Dawn [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 10/Dec/1993 ] Evading categorisation, Cassandra Wilson performs superb renditions of everything from blues, jazz and pop on this excellent recording - which is easily one of her best! |
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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... |
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Cassandra Wilson
Closer to You - The Pop Side [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 14/Apr/2009 ] This CD celebrates the finest pop moments from Cassandra, including her achingly vulnerable take on U2's "Love is Blindness", her transcendent version of Neil Young's "Harvest Moon", plus favorites from Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Sting and more. |
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Cassandra Wilson
New Moon Daughter [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 19/Apr/1996 ] Not only are Wilson's performances great, but the musical settings imaginative, making use of non-jazz artists like Chris Whitley and Gib Wharton to provide unusual and appropriate ambiences. Very fine indeed! |
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Charles Lloyd
Charles Lloyd - Tone Poem [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 29/Jan/2021 ] Tone Poem is the third album by Charles Lloyd & The Marvels, the genre-straddling quintet that features the master saxophonist with Bill Frisell on guitar, Greg Leisz on pedal steel guitar, Reuben Rogers on bass, and Eric Harland on drums. Released... |
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Charles Lloyd
Trios: Sacred Thread [ Blue Note / CD - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Charles Lloyd has long been a free spirit, master musician, and visionary. For more than 6 decades the legendary saxophonist and composer has loomed large over the music world, and at 84 years old he remains at the height of his powers and as... |
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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... |
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Clifford Brown
Brownie Speaks: The Complete Blue Note Recordings (3CD) [ Bluenote / 3 CD - released 4/Jul/2014 ] Brownie Speaks: The Complete Blue Note Recordings compiles all of the recordings the influential jazz trumpeter made for the storied Bluenote label during the 1950s. These are albums he recorded after his initial Powell sessions and before his... |