Blog Tag - Blue Note
Let’s test your knowledge of venues in town, dear reader. Which age-old, world-renowned franchise of jazz clubs blessed Beijing in 2016 with a most...
The weekend is here! Time for fun, relaxation, and recharging the ol' batteries ahead of *gulp* Monday morning's alarm clock. Luckily enough, there’s...
Ever since the first trumpet was bent into existence, innovators like Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis – and contemporary composers like Ambrose...
![Blues is Universal Because It is Based on Feeling" Says Harmonica Master, Sugar Blue, Apr 27](https://www.thebeijinger.com./sites/default/files/styles/blog_list_image/public/thebeijinger/blog-images/349562/30415518_10156201598856585_411081897905144736_n.jpg "Blues is Universal Because It is Based on Feeling" Says Harmonica Master, Sugar Blue, Apr 27")
This weekend won't be the first time that blues marvel Sugar Blue's harmonica notes reverberate throughout Blue Note Beijing. "I am in and out of...
You know you’re doing something special when critics call your band "the missing link between Public Enemy and Louis Armstrong.” Eight-piece New...
As if it wasn’t enough to win the illustrious Thelonius Monk International Trumpet Competition, Chicago jazz star Marquis Hill can also boast about...
Wang Zheng had always looked up to rugged blues troubadours, but it wasn't until 2016 that the musician actually felt like one himself. Along with...
“Play ‘City of Stars!’” a smiling Chinese man hollers from the back of The Bricks, the Sanlitun jazz club resembling Seb’s from the film La La Land....
The glorification of violence in mainstream hip-hop culture is so prevalent, that it's often mistaken as an essential, necessary element of the genre...
“Expect to get down,” Roy Ayers warns with an ecstatic cackle that belies his 78 years of age and five decades of experience in the music biz.
Ahead...
Plenty of musicians rarely see the cities they perform in. The routine all too often goes something like: Plane. Car. Venue. Hotel. Repeat. If a...
Simon Phillips is a drummer who has, to paraphrase a popular saying, spent his nearly 50-year career marching to his own beat. Indeed, there are few...
“Most people that are coming to hear Charlie Parker are expecting to see a saxophone player. And when they don’t, they’re like: ‘Hmm, this’ll be...
After scoring a modern Hollywood classic, Antonio Sánchez longed to bring that same cinematic quality to his concerts. The prodigious Mexican drummer...
Aside from being a Grammy Award winner and a famed collaborator of The Rolling Stones, Sugar Blue is also a sweetheart through and through. During a...
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