Jazz

Coltrane’s breakout year, when his mature sound first grabbed ears... 

Iconoclastic saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman shook the jazz world when he arrived at... 

2022 marked the 100th birthday of Charles Mingus, whose musical legacy... 

20 years ago, on February 26, 2002, a hard-to-categorize album by an unknown 22-year-old singer, songwriter, and... 

Orange and black. Fire and ebony. Fury and pride. Wearing its signature colors proudly and raising its exclamation point... 

Released to celebrate tenor... 

A celestial journey is just what Sun Ra and his Arkestra have created with Space is the Place. Sun Ra’s opus is at its simplest, a... 

Go West! The Contemporary Records Albums combines legendary Jazz... 

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The Saxophone Colossus Sonny Rollins had already recorded three Blue Note studio dates for Alfred Lion—Sonny Rollins, Sonny... 

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Continuing Craft Recordings' 70th Anniversary Celebration of... 

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of Vince Guaraldi Trio's breakthrough, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus, this... 

In 2012, Robert Glasper changed the game. After several acclaimed Blue Note albums including Canvas and... 

On September 15, 1957, John Coltrane went into Rudy Van Gelder’s living room studio in Hackensack, New Jersey and... 

The acclaimed Cleveland-born saxophonist Joe Lovano came to Blue Note Records in 1990 and over the next 25 years became... 

- The Look of Love is a lush, cinematic collection of ballads and bossa nova tunes, produced by Tommy LiPuma, and... 

With this reissue, Verve By Request celebrates the 20th anniversary of this landmark, genre-busting album, conceived, led, and... 

Acoustic Sounds Series Producer Norman Granz had a stroke of genius when he signed the jazz... 

Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub is a thrilling previously unissued live recording of Elvin Jones’ quartet that captures the... 

Originally released in 1996 — and for the first time here on... 

This live album — released on vinyl for the first time — is made up of three European... 

• Released to celebrate influential jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery's centennial, The Complete Full House Recordings... 

Uraauurtavan artistin, moni-instrumentalistin ja tuottajan, Kamasi Washingtonin, odotettu toinen albumi ”Heaven & Earth” ilmestyy... 

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After making a striking appearance on Joel Ross’ KingMaker, alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins delivers an expansive opus about the Black... 

"One of the great Ellington albums, one of the great Hawkins albums and... 

‘Live’ at the Village Vanguard (Impulse! AS-10), was... 

Grant Green had already recorded a prolific 10 sessions of classic hard bop and soul jazz for Blue Note over a 2-year span by the time... 

The Detroit born alto saxophonist Sonny Red made only one album as a leader for Blue Note, but Out of the Blue remains a gem of the catalog... 

Celebrating 50 years of Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic... 

“Destined to go down in history as a jazz classic” was the verdict... 

BBE Music announces the first ever reissue of jazz bassist David Wertman’s rare 1983 Sun Ensemble LP ‘Wide Eye... 

Following the success of Chet Baker’s much-loved vocal debut Chet Baker Sings on Pacific Jazz in 1954, producer Richard Bock... 

Though it wouldn’t first be released until 1980 as part of the LT Series, Stanley Turrentine’s Mr. Natural is a standout recording... 

This is the first-ever commercial releases of New Orleans’ legend Alvin Batiste’s Spiritual Jazz... 

When Charlie Byrd toured South America in 1961, Bossa Nova—a melding... 

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Several times in his career star alto-saxophone soloist Johnny Hodges struck out on his own, only to return each time... 

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Jimmy Smith revolutionized the use of the Hammond B-3 organ in jazz during the mid-1950s. Arguably his finest recorded moments came during... 

This sleek and beautifully paced Lee Morgan album was recorded in 1966 but shelved until 1984 for unknown reasons. In addition to the trumpeter, the... 

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The soulful and elegant pianist Sonny Clark brings his A-game to My Conception, a program of all-Clark originals recorded in 1959 but... 

On October 15, 1965, tenor saxophone master and composer Wayne Shorter recorded The All Seeing Eye, a brilliant and ambitiously multi-layered... 

A deep dive into the one of most collectable jazz catalogues in the world, a selection of some of the rarest and most sought-after recordings... 

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Crescent is widely regarded as one of John Coltrane's finest albums, featuring the talents of McCoy Tyner, Jimmy... 

Stanley Turrentine’s 1966 soul jazz classic Rough ‘N Tumble finds a deep and bluesy groove that doesn’t let up from start... 

Joe Pass’ For Django, recorded for Pacific Jazz in 1964, has long been considered a classic of the jazz guitar repertoire with Pass paying tribute... 

Jackie McLean’s 1960s Blue Note output is a fascinating body of work, especially viewed with the benefit of hindsight. In between... 

Trailblazing UK jazz renegade, saxophonist Sean Khan delivers his scintillating new album ‘Supreme Love: a... 

It’s a sign of the sheer volume of top-notch hard bop that Blue Note was recording in the 1950s-60s that a supremely swinging date like... 

Pharoah Sanders' third Impulse! album, 1969's Karma, is a milestone of the Spiritual Jazz movement and a natural progression in... 

One of the more remarkable albums in Freddie Hubbard's formidable Blue Note oeuvre, Breaking Point! was recorded... 

In the early 1960s, the great composer, arranger, and bandleader Gerald Wilson began recording... 

The first thing that strikes you about Kenny Burrell’s second Blue Note album, simply titled Kenny Burrell (BLP 1543) and released as... 

Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley had been recording for Blue Note for a decade when he made his excellent 1965 album A Caddy for Daddy... 

After appearing together at an all-star concert the night before, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong... 

Kenny Burrell had been recording for Blue Note less than a year when he entered Rudy Van Gelder’s Hackensack, New Jersey studio in February... 

Producer Jim Davis put an emphasis on recreating the live sound of Peterson and his trio for this album; Peterson, bassist... 

On September 15, 1957, John Coltrane went into Rudy Van Gelder’s living room studio in Hackensack, New Jersey and recorded his... 

This deluxe 2-LP set of A Charlie Brown Christmas features a brand-new Stereo Mix of the classic album remastered... 

Tenor saxophonist Harold Vick was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina and played with R&B bands coming up before working as a sideman with... 

Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson’s 1966 album Stick-Up! found him in the company of a new band line-up with Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Herbie... 

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Trumpeter Blue Mitchell had been a sideman on Blue Note sessions led by Lou Donaldson, Jimmy Smith, Jackie McLean, and appeared on... 

Celebrating its 60th anniversary, this release presents the complete original album Night Train, one of the... 

The supremely swinging pianist Sonny Clark hit the Blue Note scene in 1957 with a burst of creativity recording three albums in... 

ScoLoHoFo—the supergroup made up of guitarist John Scofield, saxophonist Joe Lovano, bassist Dave Holland, and drummer Al Foster—first played together... 

Trumpeter Donald Byrd was just 2 years into his 2 decade long Blue Note recording career when he brought his quintet in... 

The brilliant pianist and composer Andrew Hill debuted on Blue Note in 1963 with a flurry of creativity and maintained a prolific recording... 

The Kansas City born trumpeter Carmell Jones was quickly signed by Pacific Jazz soon after his arrival in Los Angeles in... 

Stanley Turrentine is at his blues-drenched best on Comin’ Your Way. This session from 1961 features the magnificent rhythm section... 

One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Alice Coltrane's fourth Impulse! album finds her... 

Universally regarded as one of the... 

Undeniably one of the best small... 

To celebrate Wes Montgomery's centennial... 

The prodigious trumpeter Freddie Hubbard debuted on Blue Note in 1960 and produced an astounding run of recordings over the first half... 

The brilliant arranger, composer, and pianist Gil Evans had already collaborated with Miles Davis on Birth of the Cool... 

Recorded in 1963, The Kicker was actually vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson’s first session as a leader for Blue Note, but for reasons lost... 

Drummer Roy Haynes swings as the leader of this 1962 Impulse! session, featuring A-list jazzmen Roland...