A celebration of over seven decades of extraordinary music from a company that has stayed true to its founders' commitment to `Uncompromising Expression'
Richard Havers is Jazz consultant to the Universal Music Group where he has produced box sets including Louis Armstrong : Ambassador of Jazz, as well as box sets including Impulse! Records to Ella Fitzgerald. His other books include Sinatra, Rolling With The Stones, Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey and Tony Visconti: Bowie, Bolan and the Boy from Brooklyn.
'Richard Havers's book about Blue Note records, with its details of
the inspirations and excesses of the label's major talents, amounts
to a history of jazz itself' - Guardian
'The book is sumptuous, opulent, definitive. It is a dream come
true for Blue Note fans and will appeal to anyone who has more than
the most fleeting interest in jazz' - London Jazz News
'Havers has been given full access to Blue Note's extensive
archives and the label's astonishing photo library, enabling him to
produce a history that is not only deeply researched, but leaps off
the page with an unprecedented visual punch ... As it concludes its
75th anniversary year, Blue Note finally gets the book it deserves'
- Jazzwise
'Packed with unseen photography and ephemera from the Blue Note
archive, including the original studio sessions from some of the
most important recordings' - Independent
'For fellow worshippers at the shrine of Blue Note, Havers's
book is the closest thing they'll find to holy scripture aside from
the records themselves' - Prospect Magazine
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