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unusual facts about Blue Note



Al Gamble

Gamble grew up listening to his father's record collection, which included Jimmy Smith, Ray Charles, Jack McDuff and other jazz and soul artists on the Verve and Blue Note labels.

At the Half Note Cafe

At the Half Note Cafe is a live album by American trumpeter Donald Byrd recorded in 1960 at the Half Note in Manhattan and released on the Blue Note label originally as two single LP issues (BLP 4060 and BLP 4061) and reissued as a double CD set.

Bill Lancton

Jay Harvey, from The Indianapolis Star, in reviewing A Tribute To Blue Note, one of Bill's shows, writes: "Lancton evoked the best of Grant Green, Kenny Burrell...Lancton's melody driven solo on Green's Miss Ann's Tempo demonstrated that a distinctive style can be affectionately inhabited without narrow mimicry....on Blue Train, Lancton in particular was able to find a smooth balance of virtuosity and soulfulness in his solo".

Comin' Your Way

Comin' Your Way is the second album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Turrentine with his brother Tommy Turrentine, Horace Parlan, George Tucker and Al Harewood.

Look Out!

Look Out! is the debut album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine featuring his earliest recordings as a leader on the Blue Note label performed by Turrentine with Horace Parlan, George Tucker and Al Harewood.

Quartets: Live at the Village Vanguard

Quartets: Live at the Village Vanguard is a live album by the American jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano recorded at the Village Vanguard in 1994 and 1995 and released on the Blue Note label.

Serenade to a Soul Sister

Serenade to a Soul Sister is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1968, featuring performances by Silver with Charles Tolliver, Stanley Turrentine, Bennie Maupin, Bob Cranshaw, John Williams, Mickey Roker and Billy Cobham.

Silver 'n Voices

Silver 'n Voices is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1976 featuring performances by Silver with Tom Harrell, Bob Berg, Ron Carter, and Al Foster, with an overdubbed choir directed by Alan Copeland featuring Monica Mancini, Avery Sommers, Joyce Copeland,

Silver 'n Wood

Silver 'n Wood is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1975 featuring performances by Silver with Tom Harrell, Bob Berg, Ron Carter and Al Foster with an overdubbed horn section conducted by Wade Marcus featuring Buddy Collette, Fred Jackson, Jr., Jerome Richardson, Lanny Morgan, Jack Nimitz, Bill Green, Garnett Brown, and Frank Rosolino.

Symphony for Improvisers

Symphony for Improvisers is an album by Don Cherry featuring Gato Barbieri, Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell, Karl Berger, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, and Pharoah Sanders recorded in 1966 and released on the Blue Note label.

Tony Michaelides

He sold jazz, folk and blues records out of his van to major record stores Transatlantic and its subsidiaries Blue Note, Milestone and Nonesuch.


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All That's Good

The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 2 stars and stated "On his final album for Blue Note, Freddie Roach decided to step outside -- way outside -- the tasteful soul-jazz that had become his trademark. Roach decided to make a concept album... in a weird way, it's almost fortunate that Roach attempted something grand, because All That's Good sounds like no other Blue Note record of the early '60s".

Ambrose Akinmusire

It was also during this time that he caught the attention of Bruce Lundvall, President of Blue Note Records.

Barney Wilen

In 1987, French comic book artist Jacques de Loustal and author Philippe Paringaux paid homage to Wilen in their "bande dessinée" Barney et la note bleue ("Barney and the blue note").

Casey, Crime Photographer

The Blue Note was a jazz club; the Archie Bleyer Orchestra and first Herman Chittison and later the The Teddy Wilson Trio were featured, usually in the introduction and wrapup of the show.

Duke Pearson

Pearson eventually retired from his position with Blue Note in 1971 after personnel changes were made; co-founder Alfred Lion retired in 1967 after the label was sold to Liberty Records the previous year and co-founder Francis Wolff died in 1971.

Eric Platz

Carrie Rodriguez: She Ain’t Me (EMI/Blue Note Record Group, NY, NY, 2008)

Francis Wolff

For the last four years of his life, when Blue Note was no longer an independent label, Wolff shared production responsibilities with pianist and arranger Duke Pearson.

Harrisons

The video to the band's "Blue Note" single was based on the film Kes, and starred Phoenix Nights star Steve Edge as a Brian Glover-style PE teacher.

Here Comes Louis Smith

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "Louis Smith had a brilliant debut on this Blue Note album, his first of two before becoming a full-time teacher".

Lisa Ono

Appearances in Japan include concerts at the Blue Note Tokyo with Paulo and Daniel Jobim, Toninho Horta, and Emílio Santiago.

McCoy Tyner

Tyner still records and tours regularly and played from the 1980s through '90s with a trio that included Avery Sharpe on bass and first Louis Hayes, then Aaron Scott, on drums. He made a trio of solo recordings for Blue Note, starting with Revelations (1988) and culminating with Soliloquy (1991).

Nikki Iles

1992: Pyrotechnics — Sylvan Richardson with Mike Walker and Julian Arguelles (Blue Note)

Solar Trance

During 2000 and 2001, the band played live shows for audiences in Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Minnesota and South Dakota, at world famous venues like Mississippi Nights and the Hard Rock Cafe in St. Louis, Pop's in Sauget, Illinois, the Blue Note in Columbia, Missouri, and both Gallery Cabaret and Lyon's Den in Chicago, Illinois.

The Cool and the Crazy

The locations included a Kansas City high school, where most of the students got a chance to be in the film, a run-down Aberdeen Hotel in downtown Kansas City, a greasy spoon called Pat's Pig, Penn Valley Park and the Indian Scout Statue overlooking the city, the Blue Note Club, the renowned Kansas City Jazz hall, and several real homes and neighborhoods.

The Spasm Band

Their debut album Leggo de Lion was released in April 2007 by Kindred Spirits and the Spasm Band toured Europe and the UK during 2007 in support of the album, appearing at the North Sea Jazz Festival, Rotterdam, Les Eurockeennes, Belfort, Roskilde, Denmark and the Blue Note Jazz Festival in Paris.

Tor Lundvall

Lundvall has also produced cover art for Gonzalo Rubalcaba's "Solo" CD (2006) and Miles Davis's "The Blue Note and Capitol Recordings" CD box-set reissue (1993), both released on Blue Note Records.

Trane's Blues

It comprises recordings from sessions for Blue Note and United Artists Records as a sideman for Paul Chambers, Sonny Clark, Johnny Griffin, and Cecil Taylor that were issued respectively on their Whims of Chambers, Sonny's Crib, A Blowin' Session, and Hard Driving Jazz albums.

Vic Dickenson

But if you're looking for more, listen to these recordings under the name of other jazz musicians with Vic as a sideman: Jimmy Rushing (Vanguard Rec.), Coleman Hawkins (Capitol Rec.), Pee Wee Russell (Black Lion Rec.), Benny Carter (BlueBird & Black & Blue Rec.), Lester Young (Blue Note & Verve Rec.), Count Basie (Columbia & Pablo Rec.), Sidney Bechet (BlueBird, Black & Blue & Blue Note Rec.) In 1953, he recorded 'The Vic Dickenson Showcase' for Vanguard.