It’s only natural that someone thought to collect some of the best Blue Note jackets and stick them in a coffee table book. That happened a few years back, when Chronicle Books put out Blue Note: The ...

And now, the legendary label has launched its newest line of tees with apparel company Uniqlo, which celebrates some of Blue Note’s most iconic album cover art. Buy Blue Note x Uniqlo Tees $19.90.

Max Bell speaks with Blue Note boss Don Was about the challenges of running a jazz ... Blue Note album covers: the vibrant, brilliantly designed combinations of text, image, and color that, in ...

The album starts with trumpeter Yazz Ahmed’s complex, tempo-changing cover of the late Chick Corea’s “It” — first released in 1969 on Solid State and reissued on Blue Note in 2002 ...

By the mid-1950s, 12-inch LPs — the kind that are still used today — were the new standard, and Blue Note’s first were Miles Davis, Vol. 1 & 2 in 1956. Both of those covers were among the ...

Warhol's iconic images grace no less than 50 album covers, ... (1958) With this two-volume Blue Note set by guitarist Kenny Burrell, ...

Books have been written about Blue Note’s music and its album covers, which are still studied by graphic designers. The sound quality on Blue Note classic recordings has never been matched.

This year, Blue Note has been rolling out vinyl reissues from its midcentury glory days; limited-run canvas prints of old album covers; even a commemorative G-Shock watch, with release-party ...

When you listen to Jackie McLean playing saxophone on a Blue Note album, you hear all this wind pushing through the horn. ... The original cover art for Sonny Clark’s 1958 Blue Note LP.

Her first Blue Note album, “Come Away with Me,” swept the 2003 Grammys. So, yes, jazz can also be about money and making hit records. But at Blue Note, it’s still about freedom.

Blue Note Records started releasing jazz records 85 years ago this month when German-Jewish immigrant Alfred Lion held the first recording ... canvas wall art prints of Blue Note album covers; ...