Long-time Mosaic fans will know of our connection—professional and emotionally—to Blue Note Records. Our very first collection, just over 40 years ago, featured the complete Thelonious Monk Blue Note ...

As part of Blue Note’s long-running Classic Vinyl series, this new stereo, all-analog edition of Whistle Stop has been mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl ...

If jazz musicians were among the most beautiful creative “flowers" ever produced by America, then heroin can be likened to a fungus that destroyed a large number of them. Today, it's hard to figure ...

The name Blue Note Records calls to mind a once-regnant sound in jazz: the hard-bop of the 1950s and ’60s, with its springy four-beat swing rhythm, its spare-but-lush horn harmonies, its flinty, ...

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 ...

This label’s 86-year run has been one of the most storied in jazz — and it’s still going. Hear tracks by Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, Robert Glasper and more from the Blue Note catalog.