All but four of the photos in the show are black ... and layouts ensured that Blue Note albums look every bit as cool and distinctive as the music on them sounds. The most important component ...

Artists quickly recognized that music was Blue Note’s first priority ... but heartfelt moves of the Blue Note co-founder — whose gorgeous in-studio photos of musicians during the label ...

Francis Wolff/Mosaic Images Lion typically produced ... Roughly 90 percent of the 1,200 or so titles in the Blue Note catalog are now available on Apple Music and Spotify, and about three-fourths ...

DeCarava’s musical portraiture is centered on ... Most of the musicians in the photos, and in the Blue Note catalogue, were young—in their twenties and early thirties. Lion and Wolff—whose ...

Photo by Getty Images Among Lion’s decidedly more ... None of the trio quit their day jobs to dabble in jazz music. Yet coincidentally, Blue Note was launched in 1939, a watershed for heightened ...

The Blue Note ... Black musical styles. Comedian Dave Chappelle is even set to host the entire event, giving it an edge you'll either enjoy or wince over. Though the Blue Note Jazz Festival ...

musical director, producer, curator, and Grammy award winner in the Jazz, Urban Contemporary & R&B categories,” said Steven Bensusan, president of Blue Note Entertainment. “His musical ...