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Technically Acceptable

By Ethan Iverson

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Conundrum; Victory is Assured (Alla Breve); Technically Acceptable; Who Are You, Really?; The Chicago Style;I t’s Fine to Decline; The Way Things Are; Killing Me Softly With His Song; ‘Round Midnight; The Feeling is Mutual; Piano Sonata: Allegro Moderato; Piano Sonata: Andante; Piano Sonata: Rondo.

The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow

By Charles Lloyd

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: CD1: Defiant, Tender Warrior; The Lonely One; Monk’s Dance; The Water Is Rising; Late Bloom; Booker’s Garden; The Ghost of Lady Day; The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow; Beyond Darkness. CD2: Sky Valley, Spirit of the Forest; Balm In Gilead; Lift Every Voice and Sing; When the Sun Comes Up, Darkness Is Gone; Cape to Cairo; Defiant, Reprise; Homeward Dove.

Echoes Of The Inner Prophet

By Melissa Aldana

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Echoes Of The Inner Prophet; Unconscious Whispers; A Story; The Solitary Seeker; Ritual; A Purpose; Cone of Silence; I Know You Know.

Melissa Aldana: Echoes Of The Inner Prophet

by Mike Jurkovic
March 28, 2024

Grammy-nominated saxophonist Melissa Aldana was all of maybe 21 going on 22 in 2010 when her Inner Circle Records arrival, Free Fall, caught many a discerning ear with its surprisingly earthy and assured lines and tangents. Her first for Blue Note, 2022's 12 Stars, displayed much the same but with a more resolute, restorative, established tone. ...

Charles Lloyd: The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow

by Chris May
March 26, 2024

Those of us who were going to jazz festivals in summer 1966, and were lucky enough to catch the Charles Lloyd Quartet, will likely have one tune in particular imprinted on our memories. That was because “Forest Flower" so precisely reflected the acid-drenched zeitgeist blossoming in Europe and the US. Lloyd, Keith Jarrett, Cecil McBee and ...

Grant Green

Born: June 6, 1935

Green was born on June 6, 1931 in St. Louis, Missouri. Hefirst performed in a professional setting at the age of 13.His early influences were Charlie Christian and CharlieParker; however, he played extensive R & B gigs in hishome town and in East Saint Louis, IL while developing hisjazz chops. His first recordings in St. Louis were with tenorsaxophonist Jimmy Forrest for the Delmark label. LouDonaldson discovered green playing in a bar in St. Louis.After touring together with Donaldson, Green arrived in NewYork around 1959-60. In a Down Beat interview fromthe early 60's, Green said "The first thing I learned to playwas boogie-woogie. Then I had to do a lot of rock and roll.It's all blues, anyhow."

Charles Lloyd: The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow

by Mike Jurkovic
March 11, 2024

For a long, grateful while now the music of Charles Lloyd has rippled out from that rarified space where the ego does not prevail. A pool of depth and wonder which culminates in one masterful artwork after another, for example Wild Man Dance (Blue Note, 2015) and 8: Kindred Spirits Live from the Lobero Theater (Blue ...

Donald Byrd: Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux

by Stefano Merighi
February 20, 2024

Nelle note di copertina, Don Was, presidente della Blue Note, celebra questa pubblicazione inedita del concerto di Montreux di Donald Byrd del 1973 con toni di grande rispetto ed entusiasmo. E il trombettista (scomparso nel 2013) se lo merita, sia per un certo distacco critico che ne ha sempre contraddistinto l'opera, sia per il ruolo di ...

Joel Ross: Nublues

by Chris May
January 26, 2024

Planning this, his fourth album as leader on Blue Note, Joel Ross set out to connect with a wider audience, to make things a little easier for listeners. The vibraphonist and composer says that, with hindsight, his previous work for the label has been too focused on the musicians in his band and rife with devices ...