The Visual World of Blue Note Records: The History

[@Fubeman]

Whenever I think about Blue Note Records, 3 things always come to mind: the amazing music and musicians, the awesome album covers (look up "best designed jazz album covers" and 99% of them are Blue Note) and Rudy Van Gelder who engineered the albums to sound like you were right there in the club. My 2 favorite labels of all time are Blue Note and Chess Records. Man! What a combo!

[@tudormiller887]

Riverside ? Prestige ? Columbia Records ?

[@Fubeman]

@@tudormiller887 That’s 3 labels. All very, very good, but not my TWO favorites. Sorry, but when it comes to Jazz, nothing beats Blue Note.

[@hesaidawesome]

My great grandfather AlfredLion 💙💛

[@edwardevans652]

Your great grand is a Jazz LEGEND👏

[@hannahheartshape24]

💜

[@craigellsworth3952]

I recall Miles saying "Is that how you wanted it Alfred?"

[@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists]

@@edwardevans652 no, but an immigrant that influenced American history !

[@DukeofSanchez]

Great story and very well produced. Thanks

[@kalanyballardin]

Super nice video! Thanks

[@ajlambert11]

Why are they played coltrane’s my favorites things in the background? Great track, but there are other blue note records that can serve as the backdrop of the documenysry

[@wolfgangk1]

"...to keep it moving forward you have to have new people coming along who know the traditions in order to in order to break them" " I'm age 66 and grew up as a child in the 60s listening to my parent's jazz 78s from the 40 and 50s. alongside the Mamas and Papas, Perry Como, Beatles, Temptations, and iconic movie soundtracks, Nina Simone--the great music revolution. Amongst my careers, I am also a photographer and am a slave to visuals so I was greatly impacted by the Blue Note album covers. I strive to photograph a jazz artist in the tradition of that period. It's frustrating as hell when the artist doesn't get it--oftentimes because they were never grounded in the tradition. (much as we're seeing in so-called R&B and Country music) Music is like food, if a rich classic French dish continues to be reinvented (breaking the tradition) and infiltrated with present-day sensibility, less butter, nonfat milk until all that made it great is now tasteless and believed to be pure by those who had never known it to be made otherwise.

[@Tojazzer]

Dear Kennedy Center. There are a lot of things wrong with this but I don't feel like typing that much so I'll highlight just the greatest error: While celebrating Blue Note's many achievements, at 12:43 the voiceover mentions "...a Blue Note sound.". The picture that is shown documents the historic recording of Kind of Blue, featuring (L-R) John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis and Bill Evans. This was recorded by Columbia Records, not Blue Note. Tell the intern who's producing your output that he/she/they are/is/ an idiot. Get your cellphone and do some research.

[@bobsabin]

This video includes Coltrane playing "My Favorite Things"...on Atlantic ?!?

[@martrog3429]

well funny story but blue note is still all about old cats which is clear by the amount of classic releases resurfing as a common trend for reviving jazz. same music, worse quality of producing vinyl though.

[@darkcustomxxx7252]

Blue Note is da bomb.....the world doesn't need anything else but Blue Note vinyl....

[@avazavala2638]

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[@billbill868]

How dare you present a 'history' of Blue Note and never once mention Jimmy Smith? How dare you?

[@golds04]

Omg. Nice intentions- awful accuracy. An American institution and its heroes- deserved better. Then again- in America so did the musicians.

[@mollyhaggan100]

The delirious division distally fail because smell mostly request without a stereotyped trowel. eager, round cougar

[@noranygard]

when molly said “fail because smell mostly” ... I felt that

[@postatility9703]

Sorry but ??????????

[@postatility9703]

Please,I'm not sure how you want your statement to land,but please interpret,if possible.