The Blue Note Jazz Festival has announced its 2026 lineup in New York, with performances taking place in Manhattan from June ...

When Vallejo rapper Dak Sauce took the stage Wednesday night at Blue Note Napa, it felt like a dream realized. It was his first time performing at the city’s best-known live music venue — and his ...

Jazz thrives in cities with history: New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago. These cities are also places where you’d expect a new festival to pop up and have success, taking full advantage of a ...

Grammy-winning artists Ledisi, Durand Bernarr and Big Freedia are among the performers slated for the 2026 Blue Note Jazz Festival New York. Being staged at multiple venues across the Big Apple, the ...

American jazz composer and guitarist John Scofield performs with his Combo 66 band with Gerald Clayton on piano and Hammond B3 organ and Vicente Archer on upright acoustic bass at the Blue Note Jazz ...

Blue Note Records started releasing jazz records 85 years ago this month when German-Jewish immigrant Alfred Lion held the first recording sessions for the label in New York City. Much has changed ...

Musicians swap stories from their time within the eye of the pandemic. Get an artist on the phone, and they talk of dried-up touring income, doubts and precautions, and taking their show, well, home — ...

After his father, Danny Bensusan founded the first Blue Note club in 1981, Blue Note President Steven Bensusan grew up in the world of jazz legends, from Chick Corea to McCoyTyner. So even as the ...