Grant Green

Climate Change brings Blueskies

Happy Sunday to my friends on BlueSky. Here’s a picture I took at the Keukenhof garden, Holland. ♥️

Happy Friday BlueSky, here’s my photograph from Zion NP. 💙

We went to clean a little duck 🦆 pond by our house today. 🥰

Liora Twani

Happy birthday Stevie Wonder! 🎹🎶🩵🎤 #steviewonder

Happy Birthday Ronnie Foster who turns 76 today! Stream our spotlight playlist with standout tracks spanning the great organist's 1972 debut "Two Headed Freap" to his 2022 comeback album “Reboot”: bluenote.lnk.to/RonnieFoster... Find vinyl on the Blue Note Store: store.bluenote.com/collections/...

Happy Mother's Day Mother Earth

Maysa

De La Soul

Al Jarreau

Byron Miller

Count Basic

Wishing a very Happy Birthday to the great Ron Carter who is 89 years old today! The legendary bassist's most recent album "Sweet, Sweet Spirit" is a heartfelt tribute to his mother that blends Jazz & Gospel in collaboration with Ricky Dillard: rickydillard.lnk.to/sweetsweetsp...

Wayne Shorter

101 North

George Benson

Keiko

Roy Hargrove

Bobby Broom

Happy Birthday Bobbi Humphrey! After debuting on Blue Note in 1971, the flutist collaborated with producer Larry Mizell on albums including 1973’s “Blacks and Blues” & 1975’s “Fancy Dancer,” both of which have been reissued in our Classic Vinyl Series: store.bluenote.com/collections/...

Check this out: Ecosia plants trees when you search the web! 🌳 Join me and 20M+ others and start planting today. ecosia.co/app?referrer... If you’re using an iPhone or iPad, tap here to confirm you’ve joined: ecosia://invite/friends-gi3r0p

Bill Summers & Summers Heat

Saw this wooden art piece in the community center. Gardena city limits contain no freeways. But, I-110, I-405 and CA 91 are just outside city limits.

70 years ago today on April 17, 1956, saxophonist Johnny Griffin recorded his debut album "Introducing Johnny Griffin" featuring Wynton Kelly, Curly Russell & Max Roach. It’s our Album of the Week get the AAA 180g Classic Vinyl Edition 20% off on the Blue Note Store: bluenote.lnk.to/AlbumOfTheWeek

April 16, 1971 Carole King Releases ‘It’s Too Late’ (Toni Stern-Carole King) The song was released as the B-side to “I Feel the Earth Move.” Many DJs all over the States decided to give “It’s Too Late” an equal amount of airplay. Soon, it ended up topping the charts by May of 1971.

Happy Birthday Mr. Hands Herbie Hancock

Happy Birthday Herbie Hancock! The legendary pianist debuted on Blue Note in 1962 with "Takin' Off," the first in a run of brilliant 1960s albums that established him as one of the all-time greats. Stream our playlist "Herbie Hancock: The Finest": bluenote.lnk.to/HerbieHancoc...

I Loved You In Memphis feat. Isaac Hayes & Wendy Morten Kirk Whalum

Real Love feat. Wendy Morten Kirk Whalum

It's Fathead Friday

FREEDOM SUITE (PART 1): Today, I present to you the next song from Notes of Thanks, my upcoming Sonny Rollins Tribute Album: “Freedom Suite (Part 1).” Listen to the full track of “Freedom Suite (Part 1)” on my YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyBN...

New Music

STANLEY TURRENTINE: Today is the birthday of Stanley Turrentine, one of many jazz greats I’m privileged to have had the opportunity to work with. I’m grateful for the time we shared, and I still feel his absence. Happy birthday, Stanley. 📸: Francis Wolff for Blue Note Records.

The Soul of Carole King is a new curated playlist featuring soulful covers of Carole King songs. The collection honors the songwriting genius of King with gospel-influenced vocals, horn-driven arrangements, inspired instrumentals and intimate interpretations. open.spotify.com/playlist/4GV...

JAMES MOODY: March 26th would’ve been the birthday of saxophonist James Moody. I had the honor and the pleasure of meeting James Moody back when I was a member of Kenny Burrell’s Jazz Guitar Band. I remember him being super personable, and very cool to a youngster like I was at the time.

The Jeff Lorber Fusion

So Goes Love (Goffin-King) "On her album The Legendary Demos, the singer-songwriter goddess shows off 13 killer tracks she cut before she was a star. Best of all? This super-rare heartbreaker, originally written for the Monkees, "So Goes Love". - Rolling Stone Magazine

Remembering Aretha Franklin on her birthday. 💜 🙏🏼 🎵 🎹🎤

GEORGE BENSON: Today I’m thinking about one of my greatest musical heroes, George Benson. Any conversation about the giants of jazz guitar simply isn’t complete without his name. If you’d like to read some of my thoughts on a few of my favorite tunes of his, you can here: tinyurl.com/radcfama

MELVIN SPARKS: Today marks the birthday of Melvin Sparks, the first real jazz guitarist I ever heard. I first heard Melvin’s playing at 10 years old on an album I loved: Black Talk by Charles Earland. Happy Birthday, Melvin. Thinking of you today. 📸: Scott Bernstein, subject to copyright

ROSETTA THARPE: I want to take a moment to recognize the birthday of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a pioneering gospel vocalist and guitarist from the '30s and '40s whose style of playing and performing had a profound influence on what would later be called rock and roll. 📸: James J. Kriegsmann

Jeff Lorber

The Blackbyrds

The great unsung trumpeter Kenny Dorham was a vital part of the early Blue Note story & his sublime 1956 live album is presented in full on the 3-LP Tone Poet Vinyl Set "The Complete ‘Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia" out April 24. Pre-order: store.bluenote.com/products/ken...

Jeff Lorber Fusion