Blue Note Black Radio Experience

by Ronald Davis
September 8, 2025

Basketball and Jazz: The Art of Improvisation, Part 1

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 18, 2024

This time we felt like exploring the interplay of basketball and jazz, focusing in particular on a great jazz advocate like Kareem Abdul Jabbar, on the soundtrack of the HBO series The Winning Time, on an oneiric game played with a basketball fish, and on Stanley Clarke's tribute to this sport, to which he devoted as many hours as he did to the study of the bass, while growing up in Philadelphia.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo ...

Blue Note Tokyo: Still Holds Praise From Jazz Musicians & Fans Alike

by Doug Hall
February 4, 2023

Opened in 1988, the Blue Note Tokyo nightclub has a long-established history of providing top-tier jazz performances and holds a special place in the veins of many renown jazz artists. Over several decades, the A-list of jazz performances include Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson, Tony Bennett, Chick Corea, Stan Getz, McCoy Tyner, Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Pass, the Milt Jackson Quartet, the Jim Hall Quartet, Incognito, Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, David Sanborn, John Scofield, Diana Krall, Joe Zawinul, Dr. John, ...

R+R=NOW: R+R=NOW - Live (Blue Note Club New York/2018)

by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
June 14, 2021

"When you reflect what's going on in your time and respond to that, you can't not be relevant. So 'R' plus 'R' equals 'NOW.'" Con queste parole Robert Glasper spiegava nel 2017 la nascita del sestetto dei R+R=Now, riprendendo una risposta che Nina Simone dava a quanti la criticavano per le sue prese di posizione politiche e sociali ("an artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times"). Non �� in effetti una coincidenza che ...

Robert Glasper: Canvas

by Chris May
March 20, 2020

Of the three dozen albums released in Blue Note's 180gm vinyl Blue Note 80 reissue series, Robert Glasper's 2005 debut, Canvas, is the only one recorded in the twenty-first century. Almost all of the other releases were recorded during Blue Note's 1950s and 1960s belle epoque. It is a singular distinction and an appropriate one, for several reasons. Top of the list is Glasper's place in jazz's piano trio lineage. Since Bill Evans elevated piano trios to ...

Robert Glasper Trio at Freespace Jazz Festival

by Rob Garratt
November 13, 2019

Robert Glasper Trio with DJ Sundance The Box, Freespace Freespace Jazz Festival Hong Kong November 10, 2019 What can a visiting artist hope to offer a city in turmoil, torn apart and bleeding from months of violent unrest? Distraction, escape, respite-- sure, but just maybe reflection, too. Robert Glasper couldn't have known that almost exactly 12 hours after he left the stage in Hong Kong, an unarmed 21-year-old protestor would be shot in the ...

Save The Date - Novembre 2014

by Luca Canini
November 6, 2014

? un novembre ricco quello che attende appassionati e girovaghi del jazz. Tra festival, eventi, strani incontri e rassegne, c'�� di che cavarsi la voglia. Ma prima dei consigli qualche notizia. La pi�� interessante arriva da Siena, citt�� che pochi giorni fa ha ospitato la prima assemblea nazionale dell'associazione italiana musicisti di jazz (MIDJ). Alla quale hanno partecipato improvvisatori di tutte le et�� e delle pi�� diverse estrazioni: da Silvia Bolognesi a Fabrizio Bosso, da Francesco Cusa a Franco D'Andrea, ...