This label’s 86-year run has been one of the most storied in jazz — and it’s still going. Hear tracks by Wayne Shorter, Sonny ...

One of jazz’s first significant saxophone soloists, New Orleans-born Bechet was 42 when he recorded for Blue Note in 1939, the label’s inaugural year. His 78-rpm single, “Summertime” – a ...

Special to The OBSERVER - Grammy-nominated jazz virtuoso Braxton Cook returns to Sacramento for a special performance at the Mondavi Center, a benefit concert supporting local students.

On the "blue note" in jazz It's the in-between. It's the slurred note ... Of course, for African Americans, so much of our ...

That makes Blue Note’s recent release of Forces ... did what it could to ignore both. The story Burns tells suggests that jazz was in hibernation between the death of Coltrane and the eventual ...

Jazz musician John Coltrane playing in June 1966 at the Drome Lounge in Detroit. (Leni Sinclair / ) On Dec. 9, 1964, ...

A Grammy-nominated vocalist, Marie can tell an entire story within the span ... 27: Shabaka at The Blue Note To close out the month, the Jazz Series unites with the True/False Film Fest to present ...

However, as a map and as jazz music, it leads to unfamiliar places. The series Backstories will dive deeper into people and places along the genre's blue highways. The history of jazz music parallels ...

A member of Michael Franti’s The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy in the early 90s, he established a solo career soon afterward, spending five years at Blue Note. Marrying his jazz DNA with funk ...

But on Sunday night, Baran will do something that she never thought she’d do: She will share her story of survival as part of an avant-garde jazz performance at the downtown Manhattan venue Joe ...