Forbes

Blue Note Label Boss, Don Was, Is Not Ready To Give Up On Jazz

Founded by Francis Wolff and Alfred Lion in 1939, Blue Note Records has been synonymous with extraordinary jazz since its inception. If you don’t know the name, you’ve probably heard at least one of ...
Variety

Blue Note attuned to adults

Blue Note, the venerable jazz label that cracked the pop charts with Norah Jones and Amos Lee, has been elevated by parent EMI to focus on the general adult marketplace. Conglom has restructured its ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes’: Film Review

Sophie Huber's documentary 'Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes' chronicles the history of the seminal jazz record label. By Frank Scheck Sophie Huber’s consistently fascinating documentary about Blue ...
The Boston Globe

Seeing the sound of Blue Note

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 ...
Rolling Stone

Blue Note Records Doc ‘Beyond the Notes’: 7 Things We Learned

Musicians young and old drop a lot of heavy-duty jazz wisdom throughout Beyond the Notes, a new documentary about Blue Note Records that features commentary from the label’s Sixties stars such as ...
Jazz

Blue Note Label Group Becomes EMI's Global Jazz Repertoire Center

Josh Lerman Appointed Vice President Of International NEW YORK -- The Blue Note Label Group (BNLG), a unit of EMI Music, and the first full-scale, multi-genre music division dedicated to serving the ...
The New Yorker

A Blue Note Founder’s View of Jazz Music’s Private Side

The photographer of jazz whose work is art in itself is Roy DeCarava. His book “The Sound I Saw”—a montage of his images and texts that he composed in the early nineteen-sixties but was unpublished ...
The New York Times

Blue Note Records

She was revered in the jazz world as a chance taker who communicated an effervescent joy in the pure act of singing. By Barry Singer This label’s 86-year run has been one of the most storied in jazz — ...
The Forward

The surprisingly Jewish history of Blue Note records

A new edition of Richard Havers’ lavishly illustrated history of Blue Note records is an occasion for recalling how that unsurpassed small jazz label was the brainchild of German Jewish refugees in ...
The New York Times

‘Blue Note Records’ Review: A Smart, Exhilarating Look at an Influential Label

Featuring Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and other luminaries, a new documentary examines Blue Note’s legacy from Thelonious Monk to hip-hop. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an ...
Los Angeles Times

‘Blue Note Records: Beyond The Notes’ celebrates legendary jazz label

Jazz may be a quintessentially American art form, but it is Europeans who make some of the best jazz documentaries, with the captivating “Blue Note Records: Beyond The Notes” being the latest case in ...