Blue Note founder Alfred Lion with producer Michael Cuscuna at the time of the Town Hall concert that relaunched the label in 1985. Cuscuna, who passed away last month at age 75, was a vital figure in the label's story. Read Ashley Kahn's appreciation: www.bluenote.com/spo…

Louis Smith was born in Memphis, Tennessee on this day May 20, 1931. The trumpeter recorded two excellent Blue Note albums as a leader in 1958. "Here Comes Louis Smith" bluenote.lnk.to/Here… "Smithville" bluenote.lnk.to/Loui…

Read the @uDiscoverMusic feature "‘Matador’: Grant Green’s Top-Shelf Modal Jazz LP" commemorating the album's 60th anniversary today! www.udiscovermusic.c…

NYC! South African pianist Nduduzo Makhathini (@nduduzomakh) will be celebrating the release of his new Blue Note album "uNomkhubulwane" on June 8 at @lprnyc! Tickets available here: lpr.com/lpr_events/n… Pre-order & preview the album here: nduduzomakhathini.ln…

60 years ago today on May 20, 1964 guitarist #GrantGreen was at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs recording "Matador" with McCoy Tyner on piano, Bob Cranshaw on bass & Elvin Jones on drums. The session wouldn't be first released until 1979. Listen: bluenote.lnk.to/Gran…