Rosanne Cash
The River & The Thread [ Blue Note / Verve Records / CD - released 17/Jan/2014 ] The River & The Thread, Rosanne Cash's first album in more than four years, will be released on January 17, 2014 by Blue Note Records. Cash wrote the album's 11 original songs with her longtime collaborator (and husband) John Leventhal, who also... |
Ryan Adams
Prisoner [ Pax Am / Blue Note / CD - released 17/Feb/2017 ] With decades of acclaimed work to his credit, and accolades ranging from "one of the most elegant singer-songwriters of his generation" (The New York Times) to "one of the few truly great roots-rock troubadours left" (Entertainment Weekly),... |
Sam Rivers
Fuchsia Swing Song (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 17/Mar/2023 ] A saxophonist of striking originality, Sam Rivers was born in Oklahoma and exposed to music from an early age by his pianist mother and gospel singer father. Rivers moved to Boston to study at the Boston Conservatory and eventually met, and began... |
Scolohofo (John Scofield, Joe Lovano, Dave Holland, Al Foster)
Oh! (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 6/Jan/2023 ] ScoLoHoFo-the supergroup made up of guitarist John Scofield, saxophonist Joe Lovano, bassist Dave Holland, and drummer Al Foster-first played together as a band in 1999, but the musicians' associations stretched back decades and this masterful 2002... |
Sonny Clark
Cool Struttin' [ Blue Note / CD - released 14/Jun/1999 ] Recorded in 1958, this legendary date with the still-undersung Sonny Clark in the leader's chair also featured a young Jackie McLean on alto (playing with a smoother tone than he had before or ever did again), trumpeter Art Farmer, and the legendary... |
Sonny Clark
Dial "S" For Sonny (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/Aug/2022 ] One of the finest pianists and composers of the hard bop era, Sonny Clark seemed to arrive fully formed on his supremely swinging debut album Dial "S" for Sonny recorded for Blue Note in 1957. Clark assembled a top-flight sextet for the occasion with... |
Sonny Clark
My Conception (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 24/Sep/2021 ] The soulful and elegant pianist Sonny Clark brings his A-game to My Conception, a program of all-Clark originals recorded in 1959 but not released until 1979. Joining the pianist are a cast of hard bop masters including Hank Mobley on tenor... |
Sonny Clark Trio
Sonny Clark Trio (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 7/Jul/2023 ] The supremely swinging pianist Sonny Clark hit the Blue Note scene in 1957 with a burst of creativity recording three albums in three months including the sublime Sonny Clark Trio, a 6-song set of bebop themes and standards featuring bassist Paul... |
Stanley Turrentine
Comin' Your Way (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] Stanley Turrentine is at his blues-drenched best on Comin' Your Way. This session from 1961 features the magnificent rhythm section of Horace Parlan on piano, George Trucker on bass and Al Harewood on drums, better known as the Horace Parlan Trio.... |
Terence Blanchard ft. The E Collective & The Turtle Island Quartet
Absence [ Blue Note / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] Terence Blanchard's third studio album since returning to Blue Note in 2013, 2021's Absence is an ambitious and textural production that finds the trumpeter pulling together many of the seemingly disparate stylistic threads of his career.... |
Thelonious Monk
Genius Of Modern Music (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Dec/2022 ] The legendary pianist and composer Thelonious Monk made his earliest recordings as a leader for Blue Note in 1947-48 as heard on the 1956 12" compilation Genius of Modern Music, Volume One released as part of the 1500 series featuring timeless Monk... |
Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes
What Kinda Music (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 24/Apr/2020 ] What Kinda Music is a masterful collaboration between two artists of very different disciplines, and one of the most unique and seamlessly original projects of its ilk to date, is released on Blue Note, one of the most legendary music labels around... |
Various Artists
Blue Note Re:imagined II [ Blue Note / CD - released 30/Sep/2022 ] Blue Note Re:imagined returns in 2022 with a new 16-track compilation featuring fresh takes on music from the illustrious Blue Note vaults recorded by a heavyweight line-up of the UK jazz, soul and R&B scene's most hotly-tipped rising... |
Various Artists
Blue Note Re:imagined II (Paul Smith Limited Double Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 30/Sep/2022 ] Blue Note Re:imagined returns in 2022 with a new 16-track compilation featuring fresh takes on music from the illustrious Blue Note vaults recorded by a heavyweight line-up of the UK jazz, soul and R&B scene's most hotly-tipped rising... |
Various Artists
Blue Note Re:imagined II (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 30/Sep/2022 ] Blue Note Re:imagined returns in 2022 with a new 16-track compilation featuring fresh takes on music from the illustrious Blue Note vaults recorded by a heavyweight line-up of the UK jazz, soul and R&B scene's most hotly-tipped rising... |
Various Artists
Blue Spirits: 85 Years Of Blue Note Records [ Universal (Japan) / 2 CD - released 30/Aug/2024 ] 85 years ago on January 6, 1939, a German-Jewish immigrant and passionate Jazz fan named Alfred Lion produced his first recording session in New York City founding what would go on to become the most iconic and longest-running Jazz label in the... |
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... |
Wayne Shorter
Night Dreamer (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] 1964 was a pivotal year in the musical life of Wayne Shorter. Early in the year the saxophonist was still a member of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, appearing on classic Blue Note albums like Free for All and Indestructible. That summer he would... |
Wayne Shorter
Speak No Evil [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 9/Sep/1999 ] Possibly Don Was's favourite Blue Note album of all time! On his third date for Blue Note within a year, Wayne Shorter changed the bands that played on both Night Dreamer and Juju and came up with not only another winner, but also managed to give... |
Wayne Shorter
Speak No Evil Blue Note 85 Classic (Blue LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Aug/2024 ] On his third date for Blue Note within a year, Wayne Shorter changed the bands that played on both Night Dreamer and Juju and came up with not only another winner, but also managed to give critics and jazz fans a different look at him as a... |