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Blue Note Records unearths unreleased recording of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messenger
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Blue Note Records unearths unreleased recording of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messenger’s First Flight To Tokyo

The legendary jazz label is releasing First Flight to Tokyo for the first time, a live recording of the legendary group drummer captured at Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo on January 14, 1961. First Flight […]

Blue Note goes to Africa
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Blue Note goes to Africa

The story of how the iconic label and its roster embraced newly independent Africa in the 1960’s. From Ghana to Nigeria and on to Tanzania via Art Blakey, Lee Morgan and McCoy Tyner

Blue Lab Beats and Ghetto Boy reunited by afrobeats on single
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Blue Lab Beats and Ghetto Boy reunited by afrobeats on single

The British duo joins forces with the Ghanaian star on new single “Blow You Away (Delilah),” ahead of Blue Lab Beats’ new EP We Will Rise, to be released on April 9. Increasingly popular in […]

Jorja Smith covers St Germain’s “Rose Rouge” for new Blue Note compilation
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Jorja Smith covers St Germain's “Rose Rouge” for new Blue Note compilation

Jorja Smith’s new cover is part of Blue Note Records’ upcoming compilation Bluenote Re:imgained due out this September. “Blue Note Reimagined” is the name of the next project launched by Blue Note. A project of […]

Ambrose Akinmusire announces his fifth album on Blue Note
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Ambrose Akinmusire announces his fifth album on Blue Note

An arresting new quartet album that denounces the injustices against African-Americans in the United States. Born in Oakland, California, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire presents On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment, a fifth album that […]

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Blue Note to release 60 years old Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers’ forgotten album
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Blue Note to release 60 years old Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers' forgotten album

Recorded in 1959, the album Just Coolin’ by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers will be released for the first time via Blue Note. The legendary Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers’ album Just Coolin’ […]

Robert Glasper, the “Black Superhero” of “every ghetto”
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Robert Glasper, the “Black Superhero” of “every ghetto”

The American pianist and producer drops a new video with Killer Mike, BJ the Chicago Kid and Big K.R.I.T., ahead of his upcoming album Black Radio III.  On February 25, ten years to the day […]

The Yussef Dayes Trio releases new live album
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The Yussef Dayes Trio releases new live album

Welcome To The Hills is Yussef Dayes’ new live experience LP. The British drummer is accompanied by Rocco Palladino (bass) and Charlie Stacey (keys/synthesis) in a work recorded at a Copenhagen concert from 2019. Welcome […]