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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... |
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Walter Smith III
Return To Casual [ Blue Note / CD - released 7/Apr/2023 ] Saxophonist and composer Walter Smith III enters a new era of his band leading career with his remarkable Blue Note debut return to casual, the long-anticipated follow-up to his self-released 2014 recording still casual. Eight original works (and... |
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Wayne Shorter
Speak No Evil (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] 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... |
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Just Coolin' [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 17/Jul/2020 ] A never-before-released studio album by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's Hackensack, New Jersey studio on March 8, 1959, and featuring the legendary drummer, along with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Hank... |
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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. |
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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. |
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Charles Lloyd
The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow [ Blue Note / 2 CD - released 8/Nov/2024 ] Unsettled by the state of the world in 2020, Charles Lloyd began conceiving of a musical offering in the form of a new studio recording featuring a new band, a quartet that would be a first-time convening of four distinctive voices with the legendary... |
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Clifford Brown
Brownie Speaks: The Complete Blue Note Recordings (3CD) [ Blue Note / 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... |
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Donald Byrd
Places & Spaces [ Blue Note / CD - released 24/Feb/1997 ] |
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Eric Dolphy
Out To Lunch [ Blue Note / CD - released 3/May/1999 ] "Recorded just four months before his tragic demise, Eric Dolphy's Out To Lunch (1964) represents a pinnacle moment in avant-garde jazz of the 1960s. and an album to approach with a very open mind. It is also the only full studio record that Dolphy... |
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Ezra Collective, Nubya Garcia, Poppy Ajudha, Jordan Rakei, Jorja Smith & more
Blue Note Re:Imagined [ Blue Note / 2 CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] Blue Note Re:imagined; a brand-new collection of classic Blue Note tracks, reworked and newly recorded by a selection of the UK scene's most exciting young talents. |
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Grant Green
Idle Moments [ Blue Note / CD - released 16/Oct/2000 ] Idle Moments, a languid, seductive gem may well be Grant Green's greatest moment on record. Right from the opening bars of the classic title cut, this ingratiating and accessible album, features some of Green's most stylish straight jazz playing.... |
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Herbie Hancock
Speak Like a Child (180g LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 30/Sep/2014 ] Between 1965's Maiden Voyage and 1968's Speak Like a Child, Herbie Hancock was consumed with his duties as part of the Miles Davis Quintet, who happened to be at their creative and popular peak during those three years. When Hancock did return to a... |
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Kandace Springs
Indigo [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 14/Sep/2018 ] If Kandace Springs' new album Indigo sounds like something new, that's because it is. Simple while funky. Classic but contemporary. Straightforward in the way it breaks down complex ideas and genres. And, at the end of the day, undeniably human. |
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Keith Jarrett (piano)
At The Blue Note: The Complete Recordings [ ECM / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2019 ] In June 1994 over three extraordinary nights at the celebrated Blue Note in New York City, Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio took American jazz to new heights. Keith Jarrett At The Blue Note - The Complete Recordings (six CDs) captures every tune from... |
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Keith Jarrett
At The Blue Note (Third CD) [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Previously released only in the US, this single disc drawn from the At The Blue Note box embodies all the characteristics that made Jarrett's trio for many listeners the preeminent group in all of jazz. The qualities of respect for the material and... |
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Lee Morgan
The Sidewinder [ Blue Note Records / CD ] Carried by its almost impossibly infectious eponymous opening track, The Sidewinder helped foreshadow the sounds of boogaloo and soul-jazz with its healthy R&B influence and Latin tinge. While the rest of the album retreats to a more conventional... |
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McCoy Tyner
The Real McCoy [ Blue Note / CD ] Two and a half years after his last recording as a leader for Impulse, pianist McCoy Tyner emerged to start a period on Blue Note that would result in seven albums. Having left John Coltrane's Quartet in late 1965, Tyner was entering a period of... |
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Norah Jones
Pick me Up Off The Floor (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 12/Jun/2020 ] Nine-time GRAMMY winning singer, songwriter, and pianist Norah Jones introduces her seventh solo studio album Pick Me Up Off The Floor on Blue Note Records. Jones didn't mean to make another album. After she finished touring 2016's Day Breaks -... |
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Ron Carter, Danny Simmons
The Brown Beatnik Tomes - Live at BRIC House [ Blue Note / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] On one autumn night at Brooklyn's BRIC House, Carter and Simmons turned raw plucked bass lines and hotly read poetry into something that rang with meaning and felt like magic What they created that night was, and still is, called The Brown Beatnik... |