Blue Note News

Continuing the great track record of jazz musicians from Philadelphia, trumpet and flugelhorn player Jon Crowley has moved on to New York, earning his stripes with a wide variety of musicians.

Words & Images by: Andrew Bruss Medeski Martin & Wood :: 11.14.09 :: Nokia Theatre :: New York, NY MMW :: 11.14 :: NYC Medeski Martin & Wood brought their freak jazz-fusion home for a gig in New York City that effectively stimulated the frontal lobes of their audience, but did little to get feet moving on the dance floor.

For only the second time , Brazilian singer Gal Costa and guitarist Romero Lubambo shared the stage for an evening that celebrated the music from their native land, nodding specially to the unforgettable 1958-1963 era that spawned bossa nova, arguably the country's best-known contribution to the music of the world.

Legendary Latin jazz percussionist Poncho Sanchez has announced a handful of new performances in Seattle, WA, and New York, NY.

John first fell under the spell of free jazz in the 1970s when he wistfully regarded the loft jazz scene from afar More about John .

Norah Jones, "The Fall" [1.5 STARS out of 4] John Mayer, "Battle Studies" [1/2 STAR out of 4] Amid an infinite sea of rich, complex and at times challenging flavors, sometimes you just want a scoop of plain vanilla.

Its 40th anniversary year, 2009, has been a good one for Manfred Eicher's Edition of Contemporary Music Company.

Now that her debut CD has been released by giant Blue Note Records, Kristina Train is beginning to realize the dream she had while growing up in Savannah: Singing for lots and lots and lots of people.

The brilliant French fiddler Jean-Luc Ponty was leading a double musical life in Paris in the early 1960s, performing with the symphonic orchestra Concerts Lamoureux before dashing over to the Blue Note to play jazz until 4 a.m. Images Warned he'd be fired if he kept showing up late to the 9 a.m. orchestral rehearsal, Ponty bid adieu to classical ...

It was shortly after 9/11 that I first saw Norah Jones perform. I went predominantly because my roommate was a jazz musician, and I was being sold on a jazz singer by a publicist.

The jazz/hip-hop fusion collective Us3 scored a major hit in 1994 with "Cantaloop ," a song that displayed the group's fondness for sampling classic recordings on the Blue Note label .

A legendary jazz guitarist made famous a second time after overcoming amnesia will share his life story and his music in Columbia this week.

A recording of life-affirming vitality and unsentimental beauty, "Duet at Kerrytown" captures pianist Kenn Cox and tenor saxophonist Donald Walden at the peak of their powers in 1994 .

Playing before a sold-out crowd on the first of their two-night engagement at New York's Blue Note Jazz Club, the Stanley Clarke Trio got things going with "Three Wrong Notes," a straight-ahead ragtime-inspired tune.

Japanese Pianist Junko Onishi replaces Robert Glasper: Robert Glasper forced to cancel his JazzFest Berlin '09 concert on short notice Blue Note pianist Robert Glasper has been obliged to cancel his concert at JazzFest Berlin '09 on short notice.

This week, we've got three video clips featuring trumpeter Nicholas Payton , who will be in St.

The Matt Geraghty Project has launched two new videos featuring the group performing in NYC and on tour in Portugal.

"It Must Schwing!" And More at JazzFest Berlin '09: An abundance of music on the theme Blue Note: 70 Years in celebration of a jazz label giant Taking place from November 4th to 8th, JazzFest Berlin '09 is dedicated to the theme Blue Note: 70 Years .

Record labels are, in essence, an outlet, a means for production. They are not the paint or the painter but merely the paint factory.

Varmint is the sophomore follow up to Rolldown , the self-titled debut of vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz's quintet.