Blue Note Records has announced a November 26 release date for Thelonious Monk Paris 1969, a fascinating and important late-career document of the legendary jazz pianist and composer in performance ...

One of my favorite Thelonious Monk sessions took place on May 30, 1952, his last for Blue Note Records. There's a slippery urgency to the pianist's playing on this date, and the sidemen are both ...

Michael Cuscuna, a jazz historian and producer who combed the archives of storied Blue Note Records for lost tracks of greats such as Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus, and co-founded a label that ...

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 ...

Now a division of Capitol Records, Blue Note was a pioneer in jazz's golden age, serving as a breeding ground for legends such as Sidney Bechet, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Kenny Burrell, ...

"My mother didn't want me to grow up in North Carolina" -- "What is jazz? New York, man!" -- "I always did want to play piano" -- "We played and she healed" -- "Why can't you play music like the Ink ...