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Hear Duke Pearson "The Phantom" on the October edition of "The Blue Note Monthly"! Stream our monthly mix of The Finest In Jazz: https://t.co/IMtyTxqqfK
Get the Tone Poet Vinyl Edition on the Blue Note Store: https://t.co/bc8zp1k6yZ
The August edition of "The Blue Note Monthly" playlist is up! Explore Latin Jazz on Blue Note across the ages from trumpeter Kenny Dorham's 1955 album "Afro-Cuban" to pianist Harold López-Nussa covering Benny Moré on his new album "NUEVA TIMBA": https://t.co/IMtyTxqqfK
The July Edition of "The Blue Note Monthly" is up featuring Jimmy Smith's "Softly as a Summer Breeze," Ronnie Foster's "Summer Song," Lonnie Smith's "Too Damn Hot" & more! Stream our monthly mix of The Finest In Jazz: https://t.co/IMtyTxqqfK
Stream "The Blue Note Monthly," our mix of #TheFinestInJazz with favorite tracks including #SonnyClark's "Royal Flush" from the pianist's 1959 album "My Conception."
Stream the playlist: https://t.co/IMtyTxpSqc
Get the Tone Poet Vinyl Edition: https://t.co/XGthu76Q8P
Stream the June edition of “The Blue Note Monthly,” our monthly mix of The Finest In Jazz featuring standout tracks from our vast catalog including “June Night” from The Three Sounds’ 1967 album “Live at the Lighthouse”! Listen: https://t.co/IMtyTxpSqc
"The Blue Note Monthly" is our mix of #TheFinestInJazz featuring favorite tracks from across the catalog like #SamRivers' "Points of Many Returns" from "Contours," a piece that saxophonist @WalterSmithIII interprets on his forthcoming album: https://t.co/IMtyTxqqfK
60 years ago #OTD in 1964 #StanleyTurrentine was in the studio w/ Blue Mitchell, Curtis Fuller, Herbie Hancock, Bob Cranshaw, Otis Finch & Mickey Roker recording a session that would be released as "In Memory Of." Hear "Niger Mambo" on #TheBlueNoteMonthly https://t.co/IMtyTxqqfK
Who's still digging our playlist "The Blue Note Monthly"? Each month we select favorite tracks from across the entire Blue Note catalog like "Soft Touch" from #LeeMorgan's "The Procrastinator" (1967). Keep exploring #TheFinestInJazz Since 1939: https://t.co/IMtyTxpSqc
The great trumpeter & composer #KennyDorham was born #OTD August 30, 1924.
Afro-Cuban: https://t.co/QuUd6hnqNK
'Round About Midnight: https://t.co/w4ygOLAKd1
Whistle Stop: https://t.co/zNQ2c7359n
Una Mas: https://t.co/EBaj92kycU
Trompeta Toccata: https://t.co/Yr23dWFoQo
To say I’m OK right now is a lie. I lost one of my best friends. We battled Cancer together at the same time. Chemotherapy, surgery all that, we constantly checked in on each other which made it feel like we were in it together. Whenever anyone asked how I was doing said I was good I got it easy bc other people had it worse, and in my mind every time the other people was James. He was on Chemo for way longer and I couldn’t even comprehend how he put up with it WHILE touring. I thought for sure he was gona make it, as we’ve made it through all the other crazy battles life presented since meeting 18 years ago. The musician community lost a real life Titan who was one of the kindest and funniest dudes you’d ever meet. He was my Brother. @JamesCaseySax
Remembering the great Lester Young who was born this week in 1909. One of the most influential players on his instrument, Young was called “the president of tenor saxophonists” by singer Billie Holiday and the nickname Prez stuck.
He introduced an approach to improvisation that provided much of the basis for modern jazz solo conception. Young's tone was a striking departure from the accepted full-bodied, dark, heavy variety, with its quick vibrato, because his was light in weight, colour, and texture, with a slow vibrato.
Also known for his hip, introverted style, Prez invented or popularized much of the hipster jargon which came to be associated with the music.
Here, he is performing at a jam session in 1944. This footage is from the short film "Jammin' the Blues," directed by Gjon Mili.
Pianist #KennyDrew was born in NYC on this day August 28, 1928. Drew made his debut as a leader for Blue Note in 1953 & returned in 1960 to record the excellent quintet date "Undercurrent" featuring Freddie Hubbard, Hank Mobley, Sam Jones & Louis Hayes: https://t.co/a5758AGnzr
Billie Holiday performing at the Club Downbeat in New York City, 1947
Our 313 Series with Third Man Records kicks off Friday with the first 2 of 5 Detroit-themed albums: #ThadJones "Detroit-New York Junction" (1956) & #DonaldByrd "Electric Byrd" (1970). Order the AAA 180g blue Eclipse or black vinyl on the Blue Note Store: https://t.co/Sy21rB4Tlb
#WayneShorter "Schizophrenia" #TonePoet Vinyl Edition out Sept 1 https://t.co/kbDuwq05Ab
Shorter’s 1967 album found the legendary saxophonist at the pinnacle of post-bop with a sextet of like-minded musical explorers performing enduring Shorter originals like “Tom Thumb” & “Go."
#LeeMorgan was born in Philadelphia #OTD July 10, 1938. Nearly the entirety of the legendary trumpeter's tragically short recording career was documented by Blue Note Records from his 1956 debut, when he was just 18 years old, to his final album in 1971: https://t.co/EMXTNRjeZf
.@JohnathanBlake1 returns with "Passage” which the drummer dedicates to his father jazz violinist John Blake, Jr. Featuring alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, vibraphonist Joel Ross, pianist David Virelles & bassist Dezron Douglas. Pre-order/preview: https://t.co/aMUShneJKm
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