Blue note jazz

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The world’s most famous jazz label – celebrated for its striking use of design as much as for its groundbreaking recordings – is 75 this year. John Fordham tells the story of Blue Note through a selection of its famous album covers

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Blue Note is an iconic jazz label, so we've put together a list of its greatest albums. Check out our picks from the label's catalogue here.

Some Blue Note artists: (l-r) Art Blakey, Hank Mobley, Herbie Hancock x2, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter

Building on the success of ‘The Sidewinder,’ ‘Cornbread’ revealed Lee Morgan to be a formidable composer as well as a dazzling trumpeter.

Jazz album covers by record labels such as Blue Note and Verve were pretty cool and well designed when they were originally released. However designer Jeff Rochester from America has recently picked some classic album covers like Blue Train by John Coltrane, Time Out by Dave Brubeck and Kind of Blue by Miles Davis and given them a reworking – Nice