Blog Tag - Blue Note

Axis Neptune Sets a New Tune for 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...
TGIF: Make the Most of Your Weekend With These Killer Activities
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...
Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah: “I’m Putting My Life Force Into This Sound”
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
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...
Don't Miss "the Missing Link Between Public Enemy and Louis Armstrong” at Blue Note, Mar 7-8
You know you’re doing something special when critics call your band "the missing link between Public Enemy and Louis Armstrong.” Eight-piece New...
Don't Miss This Herbie Hancock Approved Jazz Prodigy at Blue Note, Feb 23 and 24
As if it wasn’t enough to win the illustrious Thelonius Monk International Trumpet Competition, Chicago jazz star Marquis Hill can also boast about...
Travelling Troubadours Mojohand on Singing the Blues With Chinese Characteristics
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...
At 25, Jazz Is Growing up Fast in Beijing
“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....
"I Don't Put Opinions in Music, I Only Pose Questions", Claims Conscious Rapper Oddisee
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...
Soul Vet Roy Ayers on the Power a Pair of Mallets Possesses
“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...
Kenny Garrett's Hutong Odyssey: Jazz Legend Talks Prior Courtyard Residency Ahead of Mar 9-10 Gigs
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...
We Talk to Veteran Jazz Rock Drummer Simon Phillips Ahead of Jan 12-13 Blue Note Gigs
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...
Bird On A Piano Wire: Pianist and Berklee Professor Kevin Harris Talks Reinterpreting Charlie Parker Ahead of Tonight’s Blue Note Gig
“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...
Q&A with Birdman Scoring Musician Antonio Sánchez Ahead of His Gig at Blue Note Tonight
After scoring a modern Hollywood classic, Antonio Sánchez longed to bring that same cinematic quality to his concerts. The prodigious Mexican drummer...
Harmonica Legend Sugar Blue Talks Recording With The Rolling Stones Ahead of Tonight's (Oct 26) Blue Note Gig
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...