Founded by Francis Wolff and Alfred Lion in 1939, Blue Note Records has been synonymous with extraordinary jazz since its inception. If you don’t know the name, you’ve probably heard at least one of ...

He's a major force in jazz and the music business. He loves music and understands the soul of the musician. He's one of a kind. "We've always been driven by artists we believe in," said Blue Note ...

The hard bop saxophonist Hank Mobley is wearing a knit blazer, possibly Brooks Brothers, which on anyone else would have carried hopelessly conformist, Father Knows Best undertones. But in dark ...

A look at the New York label's most transformative decades as 2019 marks its 80th anniversary. By Natalie Weiner In 1939, a German-Jewish immigrant (Alfred Lion) and a writer-musician-activist (Max ...

Group makes a number of appointments and promotions. By Billboard Staff The Blue Note Label Group (BNLG) has made a number of appointments and promotions. At the BNLG’s Manhattan group of labels, Josh ...

Blue Note, the venerable jazz label that cracked the pop charts with Norah Jones and Amos Lee, has been elevated by parent EMI to focus on the general adult marketplace. Conglom has restructured its ...

Musicians young and old drop a lot of heavy-duty jazz wisdom throughout Beyond the Notes, a new documentary about Blue Note Records that features commentary from the label’s Sixties stars such as ...

The photographer of jazz whose work is art in itself is Roy DeCarava. His book “The Sound I Saw”—a montage of his images and texts that he composed in the early nineteen-sixties but was unpublished ...

Tomorrow evening at an Aye Write! session in Glasgow's Mitchell Library I shall discover whether writer Richard Havers is as modest a man as the appearance of his work would suggest. Last year, to ...

Jazz may be a quintessentially American art form, but it is Europeans who make some of the best jazz documentaries, with the captivating “Blue Note Records: Beyond The Notes” being the latest case in ...