Blue Note News

The following announcement was submitted by Puffin Cultural Forum: Saxophonist and composer, Uri Gurvich, will present his new album, "BabEl," just released for the prestigious label Tzadik Records, as well as arrangements of traditional Jewish music.

One of today's foremost jazz musicians and composers Terence Blanchard's achievements have soared since his formative days in Art Blakey 's Jazz Messengers to a trajectory of successful bands, recordings and award winning film scores such as 2007's A Tale of God's Will .

Jutta Hipp is another forgotten '50s jazz pianist with an odd past. She recorded briefly but gave up on jazz in 1956 for reasons that remain mysterious.

In the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz , a blue note is defined as: "A microtonally lowered third, seventh, or fifth degree of the diatonic scale, common in blues, jazz and related musics." Moving beyond musical theory, the term is most commonly associated with the groundbreaking jazz label Blue Note, founded in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff.

Take 6 kicked off their 25th anniversary celebration May 7th with a week-long engagement at New York City's famed Blue Note, and the ten-time Grammy-Award winners amazed the audience with their unprecedented a cappella vocal dexterity.

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Iconic jazz label Blue Note is partnering with music crowdfunding platform ArtistShare to create a new record label devoted to recording and releasing a new generation of jazz artists.

Days before F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic novel, The Great Gatsby , is slated to make its triumphant return to the silver screen, Liberty Hall Museum has announced it will kick off its summer season with a stylish Prohibition-era speakeasy.

Blue Note Records, the most storied label in jazz, has plans to partner with ArtistShare , a pioneering crowd-funding platform, for a hybrid called Blue Note/ArtistShare. The joint venture suggests one tactical response to the pressures now facing the record business, especially in and around the jazz field.

All hail Groovebug . The folks who last year introduced the amazing Blue Note by Groovebug -an iPad offering that dug deep into the jazz label's legendary vaults to give old recordings new life-have returned to provide the iPad with another astounding music app: Concert Vault for iPad , an offering created with seller Wolfgang's Vault.

The most awarded a capella vocal group in history, Take 6, are celebrating their 25th Anniversary! The multi-platinum recording group, made up of Claude McKnight, Mark Kibble, Joel Kibble, Dave Thomas, Alvin Chea and Khristian Dentley, have thus far earned 10 Grammy Awards with 24 nominations, 10 Dove Awards, a Soul Train Award, 2 NAACP Image ... (more)

With clear skies and cool temperatures, a stellar lineup drew big crowds to Jazz Fest Saturday.

Remember free-bop? While there's no hard and fast definition, the term was used to encompass jazz boasting a written head, often at rapid bebop tempo, which subsequently opened up harmonically and rhythmically, but without straying completely off the map.

If you need a reason to check Nippertown's event calendar "Today's Tips" every day, here's one: No matter how well you think you've done your homework, you never know what you might have missed.

Having heard Johan Lagerlf, the CEO of Stockholm-based digital compilations company X5, speak at an innovation panel at Midem this year, it was no surprise to hear the news that Universal Music Group has formed a partnership with his company .

Aki Yashiro is known as the Queen of Enka, or "Japanese ballads," according to the standard translation.

Mods rule! Whether it's Sir Wiggo modelling his spring/summer collection for Fred Perry, Miles Kane headlining the NME tour, or Martin Freeman still on our screens fighting off the evil dragon Smaug , representatives of Britain's most enduring subculture have never been so prominent.

Email: mjackson@jagpr.com Website: http://www.take6.com/ The most awarded a capella vocal group in history, Take 6, are celebrating their 25th Anniversary! The multi-platinum recording group, made up of Claude McKnight, Mark Kibble, Joel Kibble, Dave Thomas, Alvin Chea and Khristian Dentley, have thus far earned 10 Grammy Awards with 24 ... (more)

Wharton Music Center's Library Concert Series begins this Saturday, April 27 at 2:30 p.m. at the Library of the Chathams located at 214 Main Street in Chatham.

They are kicking off their 25th year of recording and performing on , where they will be performing at the Blue Note from May 7-12. This is the beginning of the American leg of a year-long world tour that takes them to With recognition in musical genres from gospel, jazz and R&B to pop, the sextet is recognized as the pre-eminent a capella group in ... (more)