A lot of ink’s been spilled, and many garments rent, over the rise of fusion and soul jazz in the late '60s and early '70s, especially in the context of its supplanting the hard bop tradition. While...
In Richard Cook's dense and scholarly book, Blue Note Records: The Biography, the late British jazz critic commends the work of Francis Wolff and Alfred Lion, co-founders of Blue Note, for recording Meade...
At the start of her career, Bobbi Humphrey could've easily represented any number of turning-point milestones in jazz. On the back of her first LP, 1971's Flute-In, she was touted by WLIB-AM program director...
When Norah Jones was signed to Blue Note Records in 2001, no one at the label knew what direction her music would take. Jones was a little-known 21-year-old lounge singer, born in Brooklyn and raised in...
