The Blue Notes' fiery kwela-flavoured jazz lit up the British scene. But its upbeat vibe commingled with sadness about separation from family, friends and roots back in South Africa. Becoming refugees ...

A new batch of reissues is always reason for celebration for me and six new Blue Notes quench the thirst this month. Regular blog readers here will know of my not-so-secret love for late ‘50s and ...

Danny Bensusan opened the Blue Note in Greenwich Village in 1981 and helped it quickly became home to some of the biggest names in jazz. Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson and Lionel ...

This fall, Robert Glasper will return to New York’s Blue Note Jazz Club for Robtober 2025, the seventh edition of his annual residency at the vaunted musical institution. Set to kick off on Wednesday, ...

Get Ye uptown or down, by hoof or cab or crook, to Columbus Circle. Last evening—and tonight and tomorrow only—wizard Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (joined by vocalist Diane ...

The album graphics for Aaron Parks’ By All Means provide an immediate clue, as the typography evokes Jackie McLean’s 1965 Blue Note album It’s Time. Even ...