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Hank Mobley
Soul Station (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley had already led nine dates for Blue Note Records by the time he arrived at Rudy Van Gelder's studio on February 7, 1960 with pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Art Blakey, but on that day the... |
Herbie Hancock
Empyrean Isles [ Blue Note / CD - released 3/May/1999 ] My Point of View and Inventions and Dimensions found Herbie Hancock exploring the fringes of hard bop, working with a big band and a Latin-flavored percussion section, respectively. On Empyrean Isles, he returns to hard bop, but the results are... |
Herbie Hancock
Inventions & Dimensions (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] For his third Blue Note album Inventions & Dimensions (1963), pianist Herbie Hancock began moving away from the modernist hard bop sound that defined his first two albums Takin' Off and My Point Of View. Inspired by explorers like Eric Dolphy and... |
Herbie Hancock
Maiden Voyage (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Even by the high-water marks set by Herbie Hancock's tremendous 1960s Blue Note output, 1965's Maiden Voyage remains one of the pinnacle artistic achievements of the great pianist's career. Hancock is joined here by his Miles Davis Quintet bandmates... |
Herbie Hancock
Speak Like A Child (Blue Note Classic Vinyl LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 19/Apr/2024 ] 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... |
Herbie Hancock
Takin' Off (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] |
Horace Parlan
Speakin' My Piece (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 24/Feb/2023 ] Pianist Horace Parlan is perhaps best known for his work with Charles Mingus on the bassist's seminal 1959 albums Mingus Ah Um and Blues & Roots. That same year Parlan made his first Blue Note appearance with Lou Donaldson and in 1960 he began... |
Horace Silver
6 Pieces Of Silver (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Dec/2022 ] At 27 years, Horace Silver's tenure as a Blue Note recording artist was the longest of any artist in the history of the label. The legendary pianist and composer cut his first Blue Note session Horace Silver Trio in 1952 and his session for Silver 'N... |
Horace Silver
Blowin' The Blues Away (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP)) [ Blue Note / LP - released 15/Sep/2023 ] The Horace Silver Quintet of 1959 was a hard bop juggernaut featuring the great pianist and composer with trumpeter Blue Mitchell, saxophonist Junior Cook, bassist Gene Taylor, and drummer Louis Hayes. The band had already cut the excellent album... |
Horace Silver
Song For My Father [ Blue Note / CD - released 14/Jun/1999 ] Song for My Father is a 1965 album by the Horace Silver Quintet, released on the Blue Note label in 1965. The album was inspired by a trip that Silver had made to Brazil. The cover artwork features a photograph of Silver's father, John Tavares... |
Brother Jack McDuff
Moon Rappin' (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 27/May/2022 ] Brother Jack McDuff was already a well-established and prolific organist who led his own soul jazz bands throughout the 1960s when he came to Blue Note Records in 1969. Following his label debut Down Home Style, McDuff made one of the most creatively... |
Jack Wilson
Easterly Winds (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ] The Chicago-born pianist and composer Jack Wilson enjoyed a wide-range of musical associations including work with the likes of Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Lou Rawls, Gerald Wilson, Roy Ayers, and recording leader dates for Atlantic before he... |
Jackie Mclean
Bluesnik (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 24/Feb/2023 ] Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean was already a veteran of the NYC jazz scene by the time he began recording as a leader for Blue Note in 1959. In his first few years with the label McLean recorded frequently, churning out hard bop classics in quick... |
Jay Jay Johnson
The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Vol. 1 (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 16/Dec/2022 ] Trombonist J. J. Johnson took the language of bebop and adapted it to his instrument winning the admiration of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. After playing on Miles Davis' first Blue Note session, Johnson led several dates in 1953-54 that were... |
Jenny Lewis
Joy'all [ Blue Note / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Joy'All finds the singer-songwriter embarking on a new era, in a new town-and on a new label, as she joins the iconic roster of Blue Note/Capitol Records. While Joy'All pulls from a bounty of sonic inspiration-from classic soul to '90s R&B, as... |
Jenny Lewis
Joy'all (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Joy'All finds the singer-songwriter embarking on a new era, in a new town-and on a new label, as she joins the iconic roster of Blue Note/Capitol Records. While Joy'All pulls from a bounty of sonic inspiration-from classic soul to '90s R&B, as... |
Jimmy Smith
Back At The Chicken Shack (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Jul/2021 ] Jimmy Smith was a self-taught pianist who abandoned the instrument in 1954 in favour of the Hammond B3 organ, renting a Philadelphia warehouse and woodshedding for a year until he emerged with a revolutionary style that immediately caught the ear of... |
Jimmy Smith
Home Cookin' (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 10/Dec/2021 ] The Incredible Jimmy Smith was a self-taught keyboard virtuoso who gave up the piano in 1954 in favor of the Hammond B3 organ, setting up shop in a warehouse in Philadelphia and woodshedding for a year before emerging with a revolutionary approach... |
Jimmy Smith
Midnight Special (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 15/Sep/2023 ] 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... |
Joe Chambers
Dance Kobina [ Blue Note / CD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] Drummer, percussionist, vibraphonist, composer, and Blue Note legend Joe Chambers returns with Dance Kobina, his 3rd album as a leader for Blue Note which explores the deep musical connection between Jazz, Latin, Brazilian, Argentinian, and African... |
