A look at the New York label's most transformative decades as 2019 marks its 80th anniversary. By Natalie Weiner In 1939, a German-Jewish immigrant (Alfred Lion) and a writer-musician-activist (Max ...

Founded by Francis Wolff and Alfred Lion in 1939, Blue Note Records has been synonymous with extraordinary jazz since its inception. If you don’t know the name, you’ve probably heard at least one of ...

If the phenomenal commercial success of Norah Jones’ Come Away With Me can be looked as a pop-crossover surprise, what should we make of Blue Note’s recent signings of Al Green and Van Morrison?

NEW YORK -- The Blue Note Label Group (BNLG), a unit of EMI Music, and the first full-scale, multi-genre music division dedicated to serving the adult music market, will become the Jazz repertoire ...

She was revered in the jazz world as a chance taker who communicated an effervescent joy in the pure act of singing. By Barry Singer This label’s 86-year run has been one of the most storied in jazz — ...

The photographer of jazz whose work is art in itself is Roy DeCarava. His book “The Sound I Saw”—a montage of his images and texts that he composed in the early nineteen-sixties but was unpublished ...

Musicians young and old drop a lot of heavy-duty jazz wisdom throughout Beyond the Notes, a new documentary about Blue Note Records that features commentary from the label’s Sixties stars such as ...

Visiting Martians, and/or other beings just becoming aware of the jazz world, might well become confused over the identities surrounding the phrase “blue note.” In one corner, we have the esteemed and ...

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Group makes a number of appointments and promotions. By Billboard Staff The Blue Note Label Group (BNLG) has made a number of appointments and promotions. At the BNLG’s Manhattan group of labels, Josh ...

Blue Note, the venerable jazz label that cracked the pop charts with Norah Jones and Amos Lee, has been elevated by parent EMI to focus on the general adult marketplace. Conglom has restructured its ...