Blue Note News Archives

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.

Monk, on keyboard, with the saxophonist Charlie Rouse in an undated photo. Throughout much of his music career, Monk was perceived as aloof and eccentric.

On his seventh album for Blue Note, Harris and his quintet Blackout loom over a cubist cityscape, masters of their musical domain.

Pianist Paul Giallorenzo locates the jazz he makes with his quintet somewhere in the early 1960s, when post-bop was getting ready to explode into free jazz and its pioneers were rooted in swing, but thinking outward thoughts.

R.J. DeLuke is an indefatigable jazz fan and arbiter elegantiarum who aspires to ultimate hipness; also an upstate NY freelance writer for various media.

Something new is brewing at The Bushwakker. In 2008, the Monday Night Jazz concerts at the warehouse-district brew pub will be recorded, with the intent of producing a CD.

Ask trumpeter Joey Morant who he's worked with, and he'll reel off a list of jazz legends including Lionel Hampton , George Benson and Dizzy Gillespie .

On the Go: In-demand pianist Robert Glasper pauses between gigs. Details: With Maxwell; Common and Chrisette Michele open.

World renowned three-time Grammy winner, bassist and composer Dave Holland is not one to bask in the glory of his musical accomplishments.

Already this year, we have seen two elder American jazz labels, Prestige and Blue Note, turn 60 and 70 years old, respectively.

Elena Gillespie is a graduate student in psychology and author with a research interest in the nature of communication in music, particularly improvisational jazz, and the phenomenology of music within human perception.