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 ...

The Roots are taking it back for a handful of shows celebrating their early days of stardom. In a video shared on Instagram, Questlove and Black Thought announced six shows over three nights during a ...

The all-star collective, initially assembled to mark the 85th anniversary of Blue Note Records, honors the legacy of the label and the genre while remaining vibrantly contemporary.

Blue Note Records is one of the most prestigious and respected labels in jazz history, and its influence remains strong in the 21st century. Among Blue Note’s younger acolytes are producer-arranger ...

A keyboard player sustaining a church-like chord underneath him, guitarist Delaney McQuaig tenderly plucked a sultry, bluesy string of notes. Then, McQuaig asked the crowd on this Wednesday night in ...

Miles Davis stopped by Chicago last week, and not a moment too soon. “I don’t want to be called a ‘legend.’ … A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do,” a disembodied Davis ...

Restaurant and nightclub owners know the importance of getting through that first year of a new business. That's why it's worth noting the Blue Note Bistro and Lounge Anniversary Gala this weekend.

After his father, Danny Bensusan founded the first Blue Note club in 1981, Blue Note President Steven Bensusan grew up in the world of jazz legends, from Chick Corea to McCoyTyner. So even as the ...

Thirty years ago today, the Roots went big with Do You Want More?!!!??!, their first album release on a major label. The DGC Records LP featured over an hour of music, with rap and jazz colliding ...