WhyHunger, a non-profit working to end hunger, is launching its Hungerthon fundraising campaign with its second annual Amplified concert. It happens on October 15 at Irving Plaza, with The Roots, ...

Danny Bensusan opened the Blue Note in Greenwich Village in 1981 and helped it quickly became home to some of the biggest names in jazz. Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson and Lionel ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. When the Hollywood location of the Blue Note first opened, it was during difficult times. Like almost all of L.A., ...

Tickets go on sale Friday for four live shows by ZZ Top founder and lead guitarist Billy F. Gibbons, who will play Jan. 21-24 at the Blue Note in Napa. Presale opens Thursday with the code SUNGLASSES.

When the doors of the new Blue Note Jazz Club in Los Angeles opened with Robert Glasper’s sold-out performances, it set the tone for what the venue aims to be: a cultural anchor for jazz on the West ...

A keyboard player sustaining a church-like chord underneath him, guitarist Delaney McQuaig tenderly plucked a sultry, bluesy string of notes. Then, McQuaig asked the crowd on this Wednesday night in ...

Robert Glasper and Terrace Martin at the 2022 Grammys (photo: Johnny Nunez / Getty Images for The Recording Academy). Robert Glasper will open the Los Angeles incarnation of the legendary Blue Note ...

At Blue Note Los Angeles on Thursday night, Charlie Puth was a hip daddio with a point to prove: The pop star has a jazz soul to bare, and no one’s going to stop him. “Can you believe that someone ...