Few in music are as successfully eclectic as Don Was, a bassist, producer, bandleader and record label president.

Danny Bensusan opened the Blue Note in Greenwich Village in 1981 and helped it quickly became home to some of the biggest names in jazz. Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson and Lionel ...

When Vallejo rapper Dak Sauce took the stage Wednesday night at Blue Note Napa, it felt like a dream realized. It was his first time performing at the city’s best-known live music venue — and his ...

WhyHunger, a non-profit working to end hunger, is launching its Hungerthon fundraising campaign with its second annual Amplified concert. It happens on October 15 at Irving Plaza, with The Roots, ...

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 ...

Robert Glasper and Terrace Martin at the 2022 Grammys (photo: Johnny Nunez / Getty Images for The Recording Academy). Robert Glasper will open the Los Angeles incarnation of the legendary Blue Note ...

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 ...

Sonos is celebrating more than 75 years of jazz music from Blue Note Records by creating its first ever limited edition speaker. The Sonos PLAY:1 Blue Note Limited Edition has been crafted with a ...

Around halfway through a set during his Blue Note residency last Thursday, André 3000 took some time to survey his tools. The musician crouched over a rug arrayed with around a dozen varieties of the ...

Pull open the door to the Blue Note Grill in Durham, and you’re likely to be met with wailing blues and the rich smell of barbecue. And friends. Some you know and some you’ve yet to meet, in a crowd ...