Blue Note News

The brilliant French fiddler Jean-Luc Ponty was leading a double musical life in Paris in the early 1960s, performing with the symphonic orchestra Concerts Lamoureux before dashing over to the Blue Note to play jazz until 4 a.m. Images Warned he'd be fired if he kept showing up late to the 9 a.m. orchestral rehearsal, Ponty bid adieu to classical ...

It was shortly after 9/11 that I first saw Norah Jones perform. I went predominantly because my roommate was a jazz musician, and I was being sold on a jazz singer by a publicist.

The jazz/hip-hop fusion collective Us3 scored a major hit in 1994 with "Cantaloop ," a song that displayed the group's fondness for sampling classic recordings on the Blue Note label .

A legendary jazz guitarist made famous a second time after overcoming amnesia will share his life story and his music in Columbia this week.

A recording of life-affirming vitality and unsentimental beauty, "Duet at Kerrytown" captures pianist Kenn Cox and tenor saxophonist Donald Walden at the peak of their powers in 1994 .

Playing before a sold-out crowd on the first of their two-night engagement at New York's Blue Note Jazz Club, the Stanley Clarke Trio got things going with "Three Wrong Notes," a straight-ahead ragtime-inspired tune.

Japanese Pianist Junko Onishi replaces Robert Glasper: Robert Glasper forced to cancel his JazzFest Berlin '09 concert on short notice Blue Note pianist Robert Glasper has been obliged to cancel his concert at JazzFest Berlin '09 on short notice.

This week, we've got three video clips featuring trumpeter Nicholas Payton , who will be in St.

The Matt Geraghty Project has launched two new videos featuring the group performing in NYC and on tour in Portugal.

"It Must Schwing!" And More at JazzFest Berlin '09: An abundance of music on the theme Blue Note: 70 Years in celebration of a jazz label giant Taking place from November 4th to 8th, JazzFest Berlin '09 is dedicated to the theme Blue Note: 70 Years .

Record labels are, in essence, an outlet, a means for production. They are not the paint or the painter but merely the paint factory.

Varmint is the sophomore follow up to Rolldown , the self-titled debut of vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz's quintet.

Monk, on keyboard, with the saxophonist Charlie Rouse in an undated photo. Throughout much of his music career, Monk was perceived as aloof and eccentric.

On his seventh album for Blue Note, Harris and his quintet Blackout loom over a cubist cityscape, masters of their musical domain.

Pianist Paul Giallorenzo locates the jazz he makes with his quintet somewhere in the early 1960s, when post-bop was getting ready to explode into free jazz and its pioneers were rooted in swing, but thinking outward thoughts.

R.J. DeLuke is an indefatigable jazz fan and arbiter elegantiarum who aspires to ultimate hipness; also an upstate NY freelance writer for various media.

Something new is brewing at The Bushwakker. In 2008, the Monday Night Jazz concerts at the warehouse-district brew pub will be recorded, with the intent of producing a CD.

Ask trumpeter Joey Morant who he's worked with, and he'll reel off a list of jazz legends including Lionel Hampton , George Benson and Dizzy Gillespie .

On the Go: In-demand pianist Robert Glasper pauses between gigs. Details: With Maxwell; Common and Chrisette Michele open.

World renowned three-time Grammy winner, bassist and composer Dave Holland is not one to bask in the glory of his musical accomplishments.