The Blue Note jazz label celebrates 75 years on Fip – Inrocks

jazz fans around the world, is a legendary Blue Note label, those whose logo guarantees quality, demand and rarity. Founded in 1939 by Alfred Lion, German Jews fleeing Nazi Germany and the musician and New York producer Max Margulis, this small structure was an experimental laboratory for the majority of the musicians of the post-Parker era. Sonny Rollins Miles Davis to John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Kenny Dorham, Eric Dolphy, Art Blakey, Clifford Brown and Thelonious Monk, all the jazz greats of postwar past by this label, most often to record albums destined to become classics.

Hard-bop, modal, blues and blues rythm’n yesterday married to electro, to classical and world music today , jazz it was declined in all its nuances -. except the free, but the Impulse label, which is reborn from its ashes, was there to receive the artists involved on this path

75 years respect

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Blue Note label universally respected, Fip opted for an original approach by returning to 15 of its most albums emblematic through literary texts related to jazz, sound creations four minutes then serve as a pretext for photographic work available in 25 images. Hope to hear again excerpts of some of the best published by Blue Note records therefore adds to discover that 15 photographers through their relationship to jazz. Every Tuesday at 20:30 Jazzafip issue presents a new episode of the series, then posted on the website of the radio.

As just the first episode was devoted to the first album released on Blue Note, The First Day , pianists Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis. Boogie 1939, which resonates with a new extract of the Southern writer Eudora Welty, whose photos collective False Friends emphasize the ironic racism. The choice is wise and collage works so well that we begin to listen to several times the voice that we read in his music, while scrolling through the photos to better collect secret correspondence.

rushes to other numbers, according to Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Horace Silver and Lee Morgan to dive into this black and white America that seems to come to life our ears and our eyes. Subtle, these short-disciplinary creations do not just do justice to the wonderful work, almost artisanal when considering the storage means of the time, huge musicians whose influence has crossed generations: they also remind that Jazz is a poetic authors of the beat generation which were impregnated and which amount of photographers and filmmakers were inspired.

The air time, certainly, but also a universal art, as evidenced pleasure, wonder and envy new discoveries surrounding this beautiful series initiated by Fip

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