Jazz

GREEN IS BEAUTIFUL (BLUE NOTE CLASSIC VNYL SERIES) 180gram Heavy Vinyl - Grant Green's musical style evolved to embrace jazz-funk as the decade turned to 1970. The guitarist's vibrant album Green Is Beautiful is a highlight of the era. With his distinctive tone, he...

Recorded in Hollywood, California between two sessions in December 1956 and January 1957, Art Pepper's Modern Art for the Intro label featured his melodic alto saxophone flights atop cool jazz, bebop, and blues in the company of a quartet with Russ Freeman on piano,...

Vinyl LP pressing. ECM recording artists and key jazz musicians from several generations unite on Once Around the Room to celebrate the musical legacy of drum icon Paul Motian in a big way. Jakob Bro and Joe Lovano lead an ensemble through fiery originals...

Elastic Wave (Vinyl)

Simply put, Samara Joy is next. At just 22 years old, her Verve debut `Linger Awhile' shows that with a voice, tone, and phrasing that harkens back to the most legendary jazz vocalists, Samara belongs in the company of iconic labelmates from Ella Fitzgerald...

A first-ever official release of Donald Byrd's Live: Cookin' with Blue Note at Montreux on what would have been the legendary trumpeter's 90th birthday: December 9, 2022. In July 1973, Blue Note Records headed to Switzerland to showcase several of the label's stars at...

2022 release. Domi & JD Beck release their highly anticipated debut album Not Tight on Anderson.Paak's new label, Apeshit Inc in partnership with Blue Note Records. Featuring special guests Anderson.Paak, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Herbie Hancock, Thundercat, Mac DeMarco, and Kurt Rosenwinkel, the album...

A thrilling, previously unissued live recording of Elvin Jones' quartet that captures the legendary drummer's emergence as a bandleader at a little-known NYC club where he had a weekly residency after leaving John Coltrane's band in the late 1960s. Featuring Joe Farrell on tenor...

Byrd’s Eye View (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (Vinyl)

The Hammond B3 organ tradition was firmly rooted in soul jazz until the emergence of Larry Young, when he brought a new perspective to the instrument by placing it in an adventurous post-bop context. His 1965 masterpiece, Unity, features a cast of modern jazz...

Bordeaux Concert is a special document from Keith Jarrett's 2016 European tour. Each solo piano concert had its own distinct character, and in Bordeaux, the lyrical impulse is brought to the fore. In this improvised suite, many quiet discoveries are made. There is a...

2022 release. Guitarist Julian Lage discovers new possibilities with orchestration on the follow-up to his acclaimed 2021 Blue Note debut, Squintby, expanding his trio with bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Dave King with the addition of fellow guitarist (and Blue Note labelmate) Bill Frisell....

2022 release. South African pianist and composer Nduduzo Makhathini follows his acclaimed Blue Note debut Modes of Communication, which was named one of the Best Jazz Albums of 2020 by The New York Times, with another profound artistic statement: In The Spirit of Ntu....

Down With It! (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (Vinyl)

The legacy of Frank Sinatra – one of the world’s most enduring singers – includes a studio album no one anticipated: Watertown. Recorded in 1969 and released in 1970, the concept of Watertown unfolds as a personal tragedy about a working man with children...

Total Refreshment Centre - "Transmissions From Total Refreshment Centre" - The extended family around London's Total Refreshment Centre (TRC) connects continents and generations, creating the rich relationships on Transmissions From Total Refreshment Centre. It's an eclectic and electric collection drawing on new school jazz,...

John Scofield's first guitar solo recording gives a resume of all the influences and idioms he has cultivated over his career in performances on guitar, accompanied by his own rhythmic pulse and chordal backing using a loop machine. Between elegant and personal readings of...

Saxophonist and composer Charles Lloyd has been a free spirit, master musician, and visionary. At 84, he remains at the height of his powers and as prolific as ever. As a sound seeker, Lloyd has perhaps found no greater manifestation than on his Trio...