Blue Note Re:imagined

• Blue Note Re:imagined

Blue Note Re:imagined returns on September 30 with a new 16-track compilation featuring fresh takes on music from the Blue Note vaults recorded by a heavyweight line-up of the UK jazz, soul, and R&B scene’s most hotly-tipped rising stars. Arriving off the back of the widespread international success of the first... read more

Blue Note Re:imagined returns on September 30, 2022 with a new 16-track compilation featuring fresh takes on music from the illustrious Blue Note Records vaults recorded by a heavyweight line-up of the UK jazz, soul, and R&B scene’s most hotly-tipped rising stars. Arriving off the back of the widespread... read more

Vocalist Poppy Ajudha has released a moving new music video to accompany her re:imagining of Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man,” which is featured on Blue Note Re:imagined, a new collection of classic Blue Note tracks reworked and newly recorded by a selection of the UK scene’s most exciting young talents... read more

“New voices explore Blue Note’s mosaic identity… Powerful stuff”—MOJO ★★★★ Blue Note and Decca have teamed up to release Blue Note Re:imagined, a brand new collection of classic Blue Note tracks reworked and newly recorded by a selection of the UK scene’s most exciting young talents today.... read more

Jazz harmony meets alternative hip-hop and soul in the music of self-taught pianist and producer Alfa Mist. His new single out today is a reworking of Eddie Henderson’s jazz fusion classic “Galaxy,” which originally appeared on the trumpeter’s 1975 Blue Note album Sunburst. The song is the eighth single to be... read more

London-based Australian multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer Jordan Rakei has released his spirited new version of “Wind Parade,” a track that originally appeared on trumpeter Donald Byrd’s 1975 R&B fusion classic Places and Spaces. The song is the seventh single to be released from Blue Note... read more

UK jazz-soul singer Yazmin Lacey has released her breezy new version of the pop standard “I’ll Never Stop Loving You” inspired by vocalist Dodo Greene who recorded the song on her 1962 album My Hour Of Need. “Blue Note recordings are iconic,” says Lacey. “The artists, the music, the history. They have... read more

Steam Down, whose fiery mix of afro-swing, grime, jazz, and future soul has led them to become one of the London music scene’s most-talked-about groups, have released their new version of Wayne Shorter’s “Etcetera” featuring vocals by Afronaut Zu. “Wayne Shorter has long been my favourite saxophonist and... read more