His book “The Sound I Saw”—a montage of his images and ... but Blue Note recorded very few singers, male or female. The label concentrated on instrumental music, and there was an artistic ...

But Blue Note is still dedicated to influencing the music’s path forward ... renegade funk, droning free improvisations. Jazz musicians now have to be improvisers deeply trained in the American ...

Through the intervention of jazz scholars, these photos have been printed, restored and exhibited, years after the band became iconic. The story of the Blue Notes is inextricable from apartheid ...

Meanwhile, the recordings and achievements of the Blue Notes remained obscure ... together in a room and make music that’s good enough to record: free improvisation. People tell me Chris ...