Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. The Sound Unseen films-on-music festival is under way, and as always, it covers various genres, extremes, and ...
Blue Note: RD 112 (35812 2--35815 2); also on label: CDP 7243 8 35811 2 2. "This compilation of recordings is part of America's Jazz Heritage: a Partnership of the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund ...
The name Blue Note Records calls to mind a once-regnant sound in jazz: the hard-bop of the 1950s and ’60s, with its springy four-beat swing rhythm, its spare-but-lush horn harmonies, its flinty, ...
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 ...
Raul Midón, a blind singer-songwriter known for his unique blend of soul, jazz, folk, and Latin rhythms, will be performing ...
Might as well start at the inception of Blue Note Records with Alfred Lion's first release, BN 1. A record collector himself, he persuaded two pianists, Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis to record a ...