2009 is the 70th anniversary of the birth of Blue Note, the label founded in New York by German emigre Alfred Lion. During its mid-1950s to mid-1960s heyday, it was practically synonymous with hard ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In 1939, jazz devotee Alfred Lion brought together boogie-woogie pianists Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis to record some duets. The music from that session ...