Saturday, February 9, 2008

FRANCISCO MELA & FRIENDS PICTURES

John Scofield and Larry Grenadier

Lionel Loueke

Jason Moran

Francisco Mela

Francisco Mela

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Blue Note Blog Series: Blast From The Past

Congratulations to McCoy Tyner, winner of this year's President's Award at the Grammys. This week's Blast From The Past is a video of McCoy playing with John Coltrane in 1965 - an incredible, lesser-known version of Naima...

Friday, February 1, 2008

Italian Women In Jazz Festival

2008 EDITION:

Cross-cultural events, jazz music, female creativity, Italian culture, the city of New York: these were the mixed basic ideas that created the first edition of the “Italian Women in Jazz" Festival, back in 2005.

Enzo Capua, a PR pioneer and music promoter known for his repeated successful work as the US representative for the “Umbria Jazz Festival", a reporter for SBS Radio, a correspondent for “Musica Jazz" magazine to name a fiew credentials, produced the concert at Symphony Space Theater with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute. It was the first time in the history of the New York Jazz scene to have an event that grouped Jazz bands with Italian women as leaders in one night.

For this third edition the Festival will be held at the world famous Blue Note Jazz club, during the first week-end of February: 1st , 2nd and 3rd . This represents a big step ahead for “Italian Women in Jazz". After two successful editions in a single day, the forthcoming Festival will be displayed during three nights in the most important jazz venue of New York City.

Check out the whole article here!
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=16837

SONNY FORTUNE QUINTET w/ sp. guest WALLACE RONEY


Thursday, January 24, 2008

GRAMMYS IN THE SCHOOLS MEETS TAKE 6 FOR SOUND CHECK

Students involved in the Grammys in the Schools Program came to the Blue Note to learn how Take 6 works with engineers during sound check to prepare for their evening performance.


BLUE NOTE BLOG SERIES: Blast From The Past...

Keith Jarrett at Umbria Jazz Festival, 1974. Classic.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

ELDAR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW!

He's not even legal yet and listen to this kid play! He's up for a Grammy for best contemporary jazz album for "re-imagination." His lives shows are pretty intense, and he takes a lot of chances. Is this kid the next great prodigy in jazz? What do you all think?