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Following the release of his 1965 masterpiece Maiden Voyage the brilliant pianist Herbie Hancock wouldn t record his Blue Note follow up until 1968 with the innovative classic Speak Like A Child The album was a showcase of several aspects of Hancock s artistry as a pianist a composer and...
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On his 1966 classic Happenings vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson assembled a quartet with Herbie Hancock on piano Bob Cranshaw on bass and Joe Chambers on drums for a sublime post bop outing featuring captivating Hutcherson originals including the stunning ballad Bouquet and Latin tinged Rojo as well as a version of...
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Unsettled by the state of the world in 2020 Charles Lloyd began conceiving of a musical offering in the form of a new studio recording featuring a new band a quartet that would be a first time convening of four distinctive voices with the legendary saxophonist joined by pianist Jason...
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The precocious and prodigious drummer and composer Tony Williams had already joined the Miles Davis Quintet and participated in numerous landmark Blue Note recordings including Herbie Hancock Empyrean Isles Eric Dolphy Out To Lunch Andrew Hill Point Of Departure Jackie McLean One Step Beyond and Grachan Moncur III Evolution by...
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Recorded in May 1963 Silver s Serenade was the last in a fantastic run of albums that pianist Horace Silver would make with the most celebrated line up of his Quintet featuring Blue Mitchell on trumpet Junior Cook on tenor saxophone Gene Taylor on bass and Roy Brooks on drums...
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Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis was still near the start of his storied career when he cut the three sessions that comprise his Blue Note recordings in 1952 1953 and 1954 Blue Note later compiled the tracks into two 12 LPs as part of the 1500 series The music presents all...
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Donald Byrd presented A New Perspective with his magnificent 1963 album for band and voices which wove the essence of spirituals into modern jazz with arrangements by Duke Pearson and contributions from Hank Mobley Herbie Hancock Kenny Burrell and others Highlights including the stunning Cristo Redentor spirited Elijah amp...
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Blue Hour has such a logical match up that it is very surprising that it did not happen again Stanley Turrentine the most soulful of all tenor saxophonists teams up with Gene Harris and the Three Sounds one of the most swinging soul jazz trios a group that was at...
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Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley was at the peak of his powers throughout the early 1960s as he produced a staggering run of hard bop classics including Soul Station Roll Call Workout No Room For Squares and The Turnaround Recorded in 1961 Workout was an energetic quintet outing featuring Mobley with...
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Booker Ervin cut 2 stellar Blue Note records in the late 60s including Tex Book Tenor which had to wait until 2005 for its 1st release With a quintet featuring Woody Shaw Kenny Barron Jan Arnet amp Billy Higgins the Texas born saxophonist slices through a set of captivating...
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Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean s 1960s output ran the gamut from hard bop to the avant garde with his 1964 post bop dates It s Time and Action splitting the difference Trumpeter Charles Tolliver had appeared alongside McLean in the horn frontline on It s Time and returned once again...
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Bobby Hutcherson s 1968 album Total Eclipse was the vibraphonist s 1st recording to feature saxophonist Harold Land who would become a key collaborator for years to come Rounding out the band were pianist Chick Corea bassist Reggie Johnson amp drummer Joe Chambers on this impassioned post bop set This...
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Recorded in 1955 for producer Tom Wilson s short lived Boston based label Transition Records Byrd s Eye View was trumpeter Donald Byrd s first issued recording as a leader The date presented Byrd at the helm of what was then the current line up of The Jazz Messengers with...
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2 months after recording The Sidewinder trumpet legend Lee Morgan was back in Van Gelder Studio in February 1964 creating his masterful sextet album Search for the New Land with Wayne Shorter Herbie Hancock Grant Green Reggie Workman and Billy Higgins The expansive title track is the centerpiece of this...
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Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson capped off his run of five sublime 1960s Blue Note leader dates with his 1966 classic Mode for Joe an album bursting with vigor and vitality that found Henderson expanding his palette with a septet of colorful figures including Lee Morgan on trumpet Curtis Fuller on...
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Miami born trumpeter Blue Mitchell had a soulful swinging style that was equally at home in jazz R amp B and funk settings Mitchell been a sideman on Blue Note sessions led by Lou Donaldson Jimmy Smith Jackie McLean and appeared on numerous classics as a member of the Horace...
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Acclaimed vibraphonist Joel Ross returns with his remarkable fourth Blue Note release nublues an album of blues and ballads as refracted through the prism of one of the most creative modern jazz groups of our time Communication is a key element of the album both the communication between the musicians...
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On his remarkable 1997 album Trio Fascination Edition One saxophonist Joe Lovano joined forces with two all time legends bassist Dave Holland and drummer Elvin Jones in a spare trio setting that finds these three masters conversing freely This stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Edition marks the album s first ever...
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The Saxophone Colossus Sonny Rollins had already recorded three Blue Note studio dates for Alfred Lion Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins Vol 2 and Newk s Time by the time he walked down the stairs of the Village Vanguard on November 3 1957 to record his first ever live album as...
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The incomparable trumpeter Clifford Brown recorded two leader sessions for Blue Note in 1953 a co led quintet date with Lou Donaldson and his own sextet date that were compiled on the 12 LP Memorial Album BLP 1526 shortly after his tragic death in 1956 Brownie s star burns bright...
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The amazing bebop piano genius Bud Powell made his most enduring recordings as a leader for Blue Note Powell s 1949 and 1951 sessions were compiled in 1955 on The Amazing Bud Powell Vol 1 Featuring the pianist with the likes of Sonny Rollins Fats Navarro Roy Haynes and Max...
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Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson hadn t recorded for Blue Note since 1963 when he returned to the label in 1967 and began a new chapter in his lengthy career Sweet Papa Lou had helped lay Blue Note s soul jazz foundation alongside Hammond B3 organists including Jimmy Smith Baby Face...
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After his six years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet the master drummer Elvin Jones signed with Blue Note in 1968 and began building his own career as a bandleader His first two albums for the label were spare trio outings Puttin It Together and The Ultimate both featuring saxophonist...
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The Blue Note Tone Poet Series was born out of Blue Note President Don Was admiration for the exceptional audiophile Blue Note LP reissues presented by Music Matters Was brought Joe Harley from Music Matters a k a the Tone Poet on board to curate and supervise a series of...
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The prolific Green is joined by bassist Ben Tucker and drummer Dave Bailey for this 1961 classic Green Street features the guitarist stretching out on three originals and staples Round About Midnight and Alone Together With Tucker and Bailey hanging on every Green phrase and reacting immediately to his musical...
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Sonny Rollins first appeared on a Blue Note recording session in 1949 as part of Bud Powell s Modernists during a period when the saxophonist was coming up on the scene and cutting his teeth alongside bebop innovators including Thelonious Monk Charlie Parker and Miles Davis After he began leading...
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1964 was a pivotal year in the musical life of Wayne Shorter Early in the year the saxophonist was still a member of Art Blakey amp the Jazz Messengers appearing on classic Blue Note albums like Free for All and Indestructible That summer he would join the Miles Davis Quintet...
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In addition to appearing as a sideman on dates led by Kenny Burrell Freddie Hubbard and Jackie McLean tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks recorded several of his own Blue Note sessions as a leader between 1958 61 However only one would be released during Brooks too brief lifetime the hard bop...
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McCoy Tyner looked to Africa on his far reaching 1970 album Extensions the only recorded collaboration between Tyner and Alice Coltrane who plays harp on 3 of the album s 4 tracks including the expansive opener Message from the Nile along with Wayne Shorter Gary Bartz Ron Carter amp...
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In addition to boasting one of Reid Miles greatest album cover designs Hank Mobley s 1963 album No Room for Squares is also a marvel for the music alone The tenor saxophonist had already notched several hard bop masterpieces in his Blue Note belt including Soul Station and Workout but...
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The trio of guitarist Grant Green organist Larry Young and drummer Elvin Jones had a unique alchemy from the first time they got together on Green s 1964 album Talkin About A couple months later the trio reconvened as a quartet with vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson to record Street of Dreams...
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On his debut album Takin Off recorded and released in 1962 jazz legend Herbie Hancock arrived fully formed at the helm of an impressive quintet with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon bassist Butch Warren and drummer Billy Higgins Though rooted firmly in hard bop the brilliant pianist and...
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Over two days in August 1971 Donald Byrd brought a powerful band into A amp M Studios in Los Angeles to record the jazz funk exploration Ethiopian Knights continuing his evolution from top flight hard bop trumpeter to pioneer of R amp B funk fusion Consisting of just three tracks...
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Moanin is widely regarded as one of the finest albums in the history of Art Blakey s Jazz Messengers It was the first LP by the third formation of the group featuring Lee Morgan Benny Golson composer of most of the songs Bobby Timmons and Jymie Merritt Lee Morgan 1938...
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Is that what you wanted Alfred we hear in Miles Davis unmistakable rasp at the end of One for Daddy O making it clear that the legendary and assertive trumpeter was not just playing the role of sideman on Somethin Else the sole Blue Note album by Cannonball Adderley The...
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Kansas City born Hammond B3 organ dynamo Big John Patton made a stellar run of soul jazz albums for Blue Note through the 1960s but Let Em Roll stands among his finest with Patton adding vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson to a standard organ trio line up with guitarist Grant Green and...
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The 1961 album¬ Mosaic¬ marked a pivotal moment in the story of Art Blakey amp The Jazz Messengers with the arrival of Freddie Hubbard and Cedar Walton and the band Äôs expansion to a sextet with the addition of Curtis Fuller joining existing members Wayne Shorter and Jymie Merritt...
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There are several Chet Baker albums with the title Chet Baker Sings but this one recorded for Pacific Jazz in 1954 and 1956 is the original and arguably the best The album features Chet Äôs indelible vocals and sterling trumpet playing with two different quartet line ups both featuring pianist...
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Hammond B 3 organ soul jazz fans know and love the music of Jimmy Smith but lesser known is the tragically short life and career of Roosevelt ÄúBaby Face Äù Willette who produced some of the deepest grooves ever recorded on the B 3 on just two Blue Note albums...
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Kenny Burrell had been recording for Blue Note less than a year when he entered Rudy Van Gelder Äôs Hackensack New Jersey studio in February 1957 for his 3rd session as a leader for the label The date presented the guitarist Äôs signature stylings with a crack team of hard...
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Easterly Winds Äîthe 2nd of 3 Blue Note albums Jack Wilson recorded for Blue Note in the late 1960s Äîfound the pianist at the helm of a first rate hard bop sextet with Lee Morgan on trumpet Garnett Brown on trombone Jackie McLean on alto saxophone Bob Cranshaw on bass...
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Jackie McLean s music weaved in and out of the avant garde throughout the 1960s with the brilliant 1963 inside out dates One Step Beyond and Destination Out eventually leading to full throated free jazz of the 1967 dates New and Old Gospel featuring Ornette Coleman on trumpet and Bout...
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It s a testament to Jimmy Smith s volcanic creativity that the Hammond B3 organ firebrand recorded not one but two soul jazz classics Midnight Special and Back at the Chicken Shack in a single day when he entered Van Gelder Studio on April 25 1960 with Stanley Turrentine on...
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The Horace Silver Quintet of 1959 was a hard bop juggernaut featuring the pianist with trumpeter Blue Mitchell saxophonist Junior Cook bassist Gene Taylor amp drummer Louis Hayes Timeless originals like Sister Sadie Peace and the blustery title track make Blowin The Blues Away one of the finest entries in...
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Little known in his time recognition has grown in recent decades for the pianist Herbie Nichols unique style which was introduced on a series of innovative Blue Note releases in the mid 1950s including Herbie Nichols Trio featuring Max Roach on drums and bassists Al McKibbon and Teddy Kotick This...
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After two solid albums on Motema both of which earned Grammy nominations Gregory Porter made his Blue Note debut with Liquid Spirit in 2013 Recommencing with the water analogy that characterized his debut disc Porter saw Liquid Spirit as a logical progression in his burgeoning discography as it touched on...
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Between 1964 1967 the legendary saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter created a treasured and deeply influential body of work within the acoustic jazz tradition with classic albums such as Night Dreamer JuJu Speak No Evil and Adam s Apple that presented Shorter s brilliant and distinctive original compositions performed by...
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Johnny Griffin had been kicking around in R amp B bands for years before his Blue Note debut in 1956 And what was introduced was a tenor saxophonist with a fresh sound a warm soulful style and the fastest technique in jazz He moves from lyrical ballads to blistering tempos...
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