Within the annals of endless discussions about jazz, there has never been a lack of debate or self-questioning over the very nature of this Great American Music. On the list of possibly unanswerable ...

Danny Bensusan opened the Blue Note in Greenwich Village in 1981 and helped it quickly became home to some of the biggest names in jazz. Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson and Lionel ...

A great record label is about more than music. Yes, it’s about the quality of that music, the character of that music, the sound of that music. Yet it’s also about things beyond what’s heard. A great ...

A circular field of empty seats, as if a swather had taken a lap in the center of Centennial Hall, dominated the view of Friday night’s Blue Note 7 concert. For an event honoring the 70th anniversary ...

Jazz thrives in cities with history: New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago. These cities are also places where you’d expect a new festival to pop up and have success, taking full advantage of a ...

This article was first published at All About Jazz in April 2001. Since 1995, Blue Note has been pleasing hardcore fans with a special reissue series that sports a very simple premise: w'll print up ...

The famous New York jazz club Blue Note officially opened its first outpost in Hollywood on Thursday night. It’s not the first time the club has set roots in a new city — locations include Milan, ...