Blue Note

WBGO’s Gary Walker to spotlight Dance Kobina, a new album from Joe Chambers on his Daybreak show and the drummer talks with Monifa Brown about the recording

The screwball comedy features a jazz soundtrack that includes classic tracks from the Blue Note catalog, including “Moanin’” by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, “Senor Blues” by Horace Silver, and “Let’s Get Lost” by Chet Baker.

"Blood Count," the Billy Strayhorn ballad, provides fine fodder for a trio of Charles Lloyd, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan, as heard on the forthcoming album 'Trios: Chapel.'

Norah Jones' demo of "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" helped land her a deal at Blue Note. It's now a single from Come Away With Me: 20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition, due out on April 29.

For The Art of the Story, a report on tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana, whose album-release celebration doubles as a Village Vanguard debut.

Working with his superbly intuitive band — Micah Thomas on piano, Daryl Johns on bass, Kweku Sumbry on drums — we listen in on Wilkins' powerful January performance, recorded live at PhilaMOCA.

Tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana made her forthcoming album, '12 Stars,' during a time of heartbreak, healing and renewed hope.

With help from guitarist Jeff Parker and flutist De'Sean Jones, Chicago-based drummer and producer Makaya McCraven modernizes a song from Jack Wilson's album Easterly Winds.

'The Complete Live at the Lighthouse' finds trumpeter Lee Morgan leading one of the greatest bands of the early 1970s. Jazz United considers its legacy anew, as illuminated by this 12-LP boxed set.

Hear a previously unreleased version of "The Beehive," from Lee Morgan's 'The Complete Live at the Lighthouse,' due out July 30 on Blue Note Records.