Home » Search Center » Results: Blue Note Records

Results for "Blue Note Records"

Advanced search options

110

Article: Album Review

Gianluca Petrella: Indigo4

Read "Indigo4" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella

Trombonist Gianluca Petrella leads an ambitious quartet that recalls the fun Lester Bowie gave us through his Brass Fantasy. While the artist's progressive approach aligns itself with the avant-garde, he remains firmly embedded in the tradition of a full century of jazz. Along with lyrical echoes of Juan Tizol and Vic Dickenson, we get the hip ...

418

Article: Album Review

Lee Morgan: The Gigolo

Read "The Gigolo" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

Hard bop's baddest trumpeter, Lee Morgan, may never quite have topped his iconic '63 masterpiece, The Sidewinder, but he came pretty damn close on a couple of occasions. The Gigolo is one of them, and it's been reissued as part of the ongoing Rudy Van Gelder remaster series. The album's menacing, visceral vibe has never sounded ...

358

Article: Album Review

Hank Mobley: Workout

Read "Workout" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

Miles Davis dissed him, Leonard Feather called him the middleweight champion, and most people thought that John Coltrane outshone him. Because of these and a few other real or imagined slings and arrows, a kind of victim support group vibe has gathered around Hank Mobley in recent years. He's in danger of going down in history ...

205

Article: Album Review

Andrew Hill: Time Lines

Read "Time Lines" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones

Time Lines marks the beginning of Andrew Hill's third professional association with the Blue Note label. Based on the results of the previous ones, he has a lot to live up to, but he proves himself more than equal to the challenge. From the time of his earliest work, Hill's music has had to be dealt ...

401

Article: Album Review

Dexter Gordon: Gettin' Around

Read "Gettin' Around" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

An arterial link between Lester Young and the hard bop tenor saxophonists of the late '50s and early '60s, Dexter Gordon's brilliance and significance are today remembered mostly as an afterthought. Partly this is Gordon's own fault: after his prolific vanguard activities of the '40s, the '50s were for him a wasteland of heroin addiction, with ...

197

Article: Album Review

Various Artists: Higher Ground: Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert

Read "Higher Ground: Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes

On September 17, 2005, Jazz at Lincoln Center brought together an ensemble of musicians responding to Wynton Marsalis' call to stage a benefit for victims of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. The document of that event is this CD, in which well-known mainstream stars share the stage with more obscure names, performing modern and traditional jazz, folk, ...

1

Article: Album Review

Elmo Hope: Trio and Quintet

Read "Trio and Quintet" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Questo è uno dei pochi dischi di Elmo Hope in circolazione oggi in Italia. Un plauso alla Blue Note che l'aveva già pubblicato in CD (con identica copertina e stessi brani) 15 anni fa ed oggi lo riedita per il beneficio di chi se l'era perso.Dopo anni di totale oblio, lo sfortunato pianista e ...

466

Article: Album Review

Wynton Marsalis: Live at the House of Tribes

Read "Live at the House of Tribes" reviewed by Samuel Chell

by Samuel Chell

Wynton Marsalis' dominance seems at times so complete that it's easy to either become suspicious of the musician represented by the vita sheet, or take it as a given that he's the world's greatest trumpet player, if not music-maker. Live at the House of Tribes offers little conclusive evidence for either position, but it certainly makes ...

386

Article: Album Review

Freddie Hubbard: The Artist Selects

Read "The Artist Selects" reviewed by Russ Musto

by Russ Musto

Blue Note's The Artist Selects series offers a valuable insight into some of the jazz greats who recorded for the label by having the musicians themselves “select and sequence songs to be reissued on a single disc. In the case of Freddie Hubbard, the choices are especially interesting because they are culled from a particularly diverse ...

312

Article: Album Review

Don Cherry: Symphony for Improvisers

Read "Symphony for Improvisers" reviewed by Ollie Bivens

by Ollie Bivens

Exploding on the jazz scene in the late '50s as a member of Ornette Coleman's pioneering band, Don Cherry left the Coleman aggregation in '65 to pursue a solo career. This, his fifth date as a leader and his second album on Blue Note, was a continuation of the free jazz sonic explorations that made the ...


Engage

Publisher's Desk
A Word About Social Media and Other Platforms
Read on...
The place for jazz polls and surveys!
Reader Polls
Which jazz venues deserve to be on top?
Cast Your Vote Today
The Big Question
How do you use All About Jazz & Jazz Near You and how would you like to see them improve?
Post Your Comment

Get more of a good thing!

Our weekly newsletters highlight our top stories, top album reviews, website news, free songs, radio & podcast shows, news, and upcoming jazz events near you.

Install All About Jazz

iOS Instructions:

To install this app, follow these steps:

All About Jazz would like to send you notifications

Notifications include timely alerts to content of interest, such as articles, reviews, new features, and more. These can be configured in Settings.