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Vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa will release her Blue Note debut next year and is currently on tour with 2 shows tonight in NYC at Dizzy's Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center, 2 shows at the London Jazz Festival next week, and 2 nights at Blue Note Tokyo next month! gabriellecavassa.com/shows/
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Legendary recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder was born on this day in 1924. In 1953, he began recording Blue Note sessions in his parents’ living room in Hackensack. RVG brought sterling sound quality to hundreds of Blue Note albums for more than 20 years: bluenote.lnk.to/BlueNoteClas…
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Another highlight from our July 28 concert at @Jazz_in_Marciac: my Sextet playing "Point/Counterpoint" from The Integrity Suite.
Marcus Roberts, piano; Reginald Veal, bass; Jason Marsalis, drums; Chris Lewis, sax; Abdias Armenteros, sax
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Happy birthday to Dinah Washington, born on this day in 1924 — the “Queen of the Blues.”
With her unmistakable voice and fearless delivery, Washington moved effortlessly between blues, jazz, gospel, and pop, scoring timeless hits like “What a Diff’rence a Day Makes” and “This Bitter Earth.”
Her influence echoes through generations of singers, from Aretha Franklin to Amy Winehouse, and her legacy as one of the greatest vocalists of the 20th century remains untouchable.
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.@CharlesLloydSax’s new double album "Figure In Blue" featuring Jason Moran & Marvin Sewell travels wide expanses of musical terrain from beautiful ballads to raw Delta blues and includes stunning homages to Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday & Zakir Hussain: charleslloyd.lnk.to/FigureIn…
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Miles Davis standing before a Jean-Michel Basquiat–inspired artwork of his own in the late 1980s.
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Born on this day the great Charlie Haden. In the mid 1950s. We gigged together and jammed at Ornette's house.These were salad days. We put nickels together to buy oatmeal cookies & slices of cheese for sustenance after playing.Cherry & Higgins were also there.Beautiful memories.
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Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry playing outside feels like the visual definition of free jazz
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In the mid-60s jazz moved into more expansive territory as artists like Wayne Shorter broadened conceptions of harmony, rhythm & compositional form. Stream our “Post-Bop” playlist: bluenote.lnk.to/PostBop
Get the Classic Vinyl Edition of “Speak No Evil” store.bluenote.com/products/…
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Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul in deep conversation — no words, just keys and sax, live at Montreux.
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Visionary graphic designer Reid Miles was born on this day July 4, 1927. In 1955, Francis Wolff hired Miles to design album covers he began creating an iconic visual aesthetic that would define the look of the Blue Note Records: bluenote.lnk.to/BlueNoteClas…
