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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,... |
Donald Byrd
Stepping Into Tomorrow Blue Note Classic (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Jul/2025 ] Donald Byrd's 1974 fusion masterpiece Stepping Into Tomorrow was a high-water mark of the legendary trumpeter's vibrant latter Blue Note years. Byrd had begun recording for Blue Note in 1958, and over the course of his tenure evolved from a top-notch... |
Dr. Lonnie Smith
All In My Mind (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] After his 2016 return to Blue Note where he first made a name for himself with a run of classic soul jazz albums between 1968-70, Hammond organ legend Dr. Lonnie Smith recorded All In My Mind during his 75th birthday celebration in July 2017 at the... |
Dr. Lonnie Smith
Turning Point (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 21/Jul/2023 ] One of the funkiest and most creative organists of all time, Dr. Lonnie Smith was first brought into the Blue Note fold by alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson who featured the B3 virtuoso on late-1960s soul jazz classics including Alligator Bogaloo, Mr.... |
Duke Pearson
Wahoo Blue Note Classic (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 15/Nov/2024 ] Blue Note MVP Duke Pearson was a versatile presence on the label from the late-1950s thru the early 1970s, contributing in myriad ways to numerous classic albums as a pianist, bandleader, sideman, composer, arranger, and producer. After recording a... |
Eddie Henderson
Heritage Blue Note Classic (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Jul/2025 ] Born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, trumpeter Eddie Henderson's exceptional childhood was shaped by parents who counted Miles Davis as a family friend and enrolled him at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. After obtaining a... |
Elvin Jones
Poly-Currents (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/Jan/2024 ] After his six years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet, the master drummer Elvin Jones signed with Blue Note in 1968 and began building his own career as a bandleader. His first two albums for the label were spare trio outings-Puttin' It Together... |
Elvin Jones
Puttin' It Together (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 17/Oct/2025 ] Elvin Jones' 1968 Blue Note debut Puttin' It Together marked the start of a new chapter in the master drummer's career. Following his six years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet, and Coltrane's death in 1967, Jones signed with Blue Note and... |
Elvin Jones
Revival: Live At Pookie's Pub (Triple LP) [ Blue Note / 3 LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub is a thrilling previously unissued live recording of Elvin Jones' quartet that captures the legendary drummer's emergence as a bandleader at a little-known club in New York City where he had a weekly residency after... |
Fats Navarro
The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 1 (Blue Note Classic LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/May/2023 ] The prodigiously talented trumpeter Theodore "Fats" Navarro was a bebop innovator whose career was cut tragically short when he died in 1950 at the age of 26. Navarro played with Charlie Parker and forged a distinctive style on his horn that would... |
Freddie Hubbard
Here To Stay (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 17/Jan/2025 ] Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard burst out of the gates with a torrent of creativity beginning with his debut album Open Sesame in 1960, and over the next two years turned out six classic albums including Ready for Freddie, Hub-Tones, and Here to Stay,... |
Freddie Hubbard
Hub-Tones (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] Recorded in 1962, Hub-Tones stands as one of the most significant artistic statements of Freddie Hubbard's formidable career, and also features one of Reid Miles' most iconic album cover designs. Presenting the trumpeter at the helm of an... |
Freddie Roach
Down To Earth Blue Note Classic (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Jun/2025 ] |
Geri Allen Trio
Twenty One (Double LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 22/May/2022 ] The brilliant pianist and composer Geri Allen came out of Detroit's fertile jazz scene, eventually moving to New York where she became part of the emerging M-Base collective that was forging new creative ideas and approaches to jazz in the 1980s.... |
Gil Evans
Great Jazz Standards (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/May/2023 ] The brilliant arranger, composer, and pianist Gil Evans had already collaborated with Miles Davis on Birth of the Cool and Miles Ahead and made his own debut album Gil Evans & Ten for Prestige when he signed with World Pacific Records in 1958 and... |
Grachan Moncur III
Evolution (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Though he first appeared on Herbie Hancock's 1963 album My Point of View, trombonist Grachan Moncur III's first true Blue Note introduction would come on two albums by saxophonist Jackie McLean that were recorded later that year: One Step Beyond and... |
Grant Green
Feelin' The Spirit (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 7/Oct/2022 ] Grant Green was Feelin' The Spirit on this deeply soulful 1962 date that is a sibling of sorts to the great guitarist's sanctified 1961 album Sunday Mornin'. Feelin' The Spirit, which was the 13th album the remarkably prolific artist recorded... |
Grant Green
Grant's First Stand (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] Grant Green's debut album, Grant's First Stand, still ranks as one of his greatest pure soul-jazz outings, a set of killer grooves laid down by a hard-swinging organ trio. For having such a small lineup, just organist Baby Face Willette and... |
Grant Green
Solid (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 17/Oct/2025 ] In Spring 1964, guitarist Grant Green recorded two blazing post-bop albums-Matador and Solid-both of which would go unreleased for more than a decade as Blue Note instead decided to release the guitarist's organ-based soul jazz outings of the time.... |
Gregory Porter
Liquid Spirit (Double LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 30/Aug/2013 ] '​Liquid Spirit' marks Gregory Porter's Blue Note Records debut, which arrives on the heels of two critically acclaimed indie label albums that quickly propelled Porter to the upper echelon of contemporary male jazz singers and earned him two Grammy... |
