SACRAMENTO, March 16, 2006 - Tower Records, America's leading independent music and entertainment retailer, and Blue Note Records, the finest in Jazz since 1939, today announce that they have ...

Everything about the Blue Note label in the late 1950s and early 1960s bespoke cool. Musicians such as Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Hank Mobley and Jackie McLean cut their best works there, creating the ...

Joe Chambers thought his new album was finished. Then, the Wilmington-based jazz musician, composer and bandleader got a call from a former student, a pianist and fellow composer named Andrès Vial, ...

Vocalist, poet, author and activist Gil Scott-Heron returns to the Blue Note for two nights only from March 2 - 3 upon the release of his first recording in 16 years, the highly anticipated I'm New ...

Learn about the care and artistry involved in recreating the album jackets and liner notes for every Blue Note Tone Poet Series record. Listen to "The Meat and Potatoes of the Old Style Tone Poet ...

For its 75th anniversary, the venerable Blue Note Records wanted to celebrate jazz's present as much as its past. The label's current roster includes some of today's most dynamic composers and players ...

To say of a jazz pianist that he can play in every style, and embrace a hundred influences beyond jazz, is a backhanded compliment. It could imply that he hasn’t got a personal voice of his own. The ...

The hottest quartet in jazz is led by Wayne Shorter, age 79, and Without a Net is an event — it’s just the third album set down by the quartet he formed in 2000, with Danilo Perez, piano; Brian Blade, ...

Trumpeter Blanchard’s first recording in four years delivers some surprises — tunes that border on the surreal and psychedelic, his trumpet electronically enhanced in places — as well as what you’d ...