Blue Note RecordsBlue Note Records

150 5th Ave.
New York, NY 10011
212.786.8634
[email protected]

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Blue Note Records has aimed to uphold that distinction over the nearly 70 years since its first recording session. Founded as a small independent label, Blue Note has gone on to become the premiere Jazz label in the world, and also the longest running.

It took the joining of many natural forces to create and define one of the greatest Jazz labels there has ever been: Jazz-loving German immigrants on the run from Nazism (Alfred Lion & Francis Wolff), a New Jersey optometrist moonlighting as a recording engineer (Rudy Van Gelder), a classical music-loving commercial designer (Reid Miles), and slews of the most incredible musicians that have ever walked the earth (too many to name them all here). The elements that each brought to the table—impeccable A&R instincts, elegant and insightful photography, sterling sound quality, strikingly original cover artwork, and consistently transcendent music—were all essential to the label's early success, the whole could not have existed without each of the parts.

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Cookin' With Blue Note At Montreux

Donald Byrd
published: March 21, 2023

Corridors

Kendrick Scott
published: March 10, 2023

Dance Kobina

Joe Chambers
published: January 20, 2023

Donald Byrd Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux

Donald Byrd
published: December 30, 2022

Donald Byrd Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux

Donald Byrd
published: December 18, 2022

Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub

Elvin Jones
published: December 12, 2022

Atypical Airship

Jun Xiao
published: December 01, 2022

Revival: Live At Pookie’s Pub

Elvin Jones
published: November 11, 2022

Revival: Live At Pookie’s Pub

Elvin Jones
published: November 04, 2022

View With A Room

Julian Lage
published: October 20, 2022

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