Results for "Blue Note Records"

Designing Jazz: The Iconic Album Covers of Reid Miles

by Kristine England
August 29, 2024

Blue Note Records has embodied the best jazz has to offer for over 80 years. With a catalog of greats, from Horace Silver, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Art Blakey, Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon and countless others from the bop and post-bop eras, to the funky recordings that hip-hop artists have repeatedly sampled, ...

Wayne Shorter: Celebration Volume 1

by Chris May
August 9, 2024

In 2000, three years short of entering his eighth decade on this planet--a place of origin which at times seemed questionable, though he made less fuss about it than Sun Ra--Wayne Shorter finally did what he had resisted doing throughout his career. He formed his own band, not just for an album project but as an ...

Mosaic Records Releases Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963 – 1970 Limited Edition Box Set

July 21, 2024

Long-time Mosaic fans will know of our connection—professional and emotionally—to Blue Note Records. Our very first collection, just over 40 years ago, featured the complete Thelonious Monk Blue Note library, and it would be followed by retrospectives of many other Blue Note artists throughout our history. We view every opportunity to revisit that seminal label, lovingly ...

Linda Sikhakhane: Iladi

by Mike Jurkovic
July 16, 2024

The music of South African saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane does not so much originate from a particular point in time or space or history as much as it expands and accelerates forth from the sub-Sahara's heady mists. Billowing, charging. Seething, soothing. So ease back and let Iladi (a Zulu wisdom ritual) happen. Let the moves of diaspora move ...

Rollin' With Leo

by Richard J Salvucci
July 14, 2024

Leo Parker may not be a name that instantly springs to mind in the world of late 1940s bebop. There was one point, in 1948, however, when serious people, like Barry Ulanov, regarded Parker as the best baritone saxophonist around--in company with Charlie Parker and Fats Navarro. That is fancy company, so it is worth asking ...

Linda Sikhakhane: Iladi

by Chris May
July 2, 2024

It is beyond coincidence that the two most uplifting albums released by male saxophonists so far in 2024 were made by players who use their music, in part, to celebrate female wisdom. The albums are Linda Sikhakhane's Iladi and Oded Tzur's My Prophet (ECM). New York-based Tzur's My Prophet, like its immediate predecessor, ...

Nduduzo Makhathini: uNomkhubulwane

by Mike Jurkovic
June 1, 2024

Abundantly, beatifically, and beautifully ebullient, uNomkhubulwane, Nduduzo Makhathini's eleventh overall effort but third masterwork for Blue Note (his 2020 Blue Note first, Modes of Communication: Letters From the Underworlds and 2022's In the Spirit of Ntu still shimmer and transcend) is, as is the South African pianist's quickly evolving tradition, radiant and revelatory. Emerging ...

Eric Gale

Born: September 20, 1938

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Born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York to an American mother and British father. Eric grew up in a time when interracial marriages were not widely accepted; however, growing up his father always ensured his family's safety. Eric grew up around his father's friends who were Sicilian and was baptised and raised Catholic. Eric's mother was Christian, born and raised in Alabama.She and her family migrated to Brooklyn in the early 1900's. He had two younger brothers, who were a decade younger than him. Eric's childhood included holidays spent visiting family in the UK, giving him a unique perspective on the world. Fluent in Spanish and German, Eric had a diverse linguistic background.

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 ...