{"id":4892,"date":"2026-01-30T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/?p=4892"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:31:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:31:02","slug":"blue-note-announces-its-2026-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/news\/blue-note-announces-its-2026-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Note announces its 2026 lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>At the end of the year, Blue Note unveiled the upcoming titles in its flagship Classic Vinyl Series and Tone Poet series for 2026.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CLASSIC VINYL SERIES 2026<\/strong><br>Supervised by Cem Kurosman and still mastered from the original analog tapes by the prolific Kevin Gray, the Classic Vinyl Series continues its exploration of the vast Blue Note catalog with titles spanning many eras and styles across the legendary label&#8217;s eight decades of history.<br>The newly announced titles begin on January 23 with two swing classics from the 1960s: Art Blakey &amp; The Jazz Messengers&#8217;\u00a0<em>Free For All<\/em>\u00a0and Joe Henderson&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Our Thing<\/em>. Other highlights include two remarkable albums from the 1990s that are being reissued on vinyl for the very first time: John Scofield&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Meant To Be<\/em>(pressed directly from the original analog tapes) and Medeski Martin &amp; Wood&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Tonic<\/em>, as well as bebop classics from the 1500 series by Thelonious Monk (<em>Genius Of Modern Music<\/em>) and J.J. Johnson (<em>The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson<\/em>); albums by the organ-guitar-drums trio of Jimmy Smith (<em>Softly As A Summer Breeze<\/em>) and Grant Green (<em>Street Of Dreams<\/em>); the contrasting 1969 albums by Eddie Gale (<em>Black Rhythm Happening<\/em>) and The Three Sounds (<em>Soul Symphony<\/em>); and hard bop classics by Blue Note legends including Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Lou Donaldson, and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TONE POET 2026<\/strong><br>As with the Classic series, the tracks for the Tone Poet series have once again been selected by Joe Harley and mastered from the original tapes by Kevin Gray, but manufactured by RTI on 180-gram vinyl and presented in deluxe sleeves with session photos by Francis Wolff. Once again, the lineup will revisit rare gems, bold and underrated recordings, and, of course, beloved titles from the Blue Note catalog that some have been eagerly awaiting, such as Jimmy Smith&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Sermon<\/em>\u00a0and Sonny Rollins&#8217;\u00a0<em>Vol. 2<\/em>. Also included are albums from other labels under the Blue Note umbrella, including Pacific Jazz and Jazz West. The new titles announced will be released starting January 9 with the release of Hank Mobley&#8217;s album\u00a0<em>Hank<\/em>, recorded in 1957 with his sextet, Tyrone Washington&#8217;s little-known gem\u00a0<em>Natural Essence<\/em>, recorded in 1967, and the quarterly Tone Poet Society Exclusive Blue Mitchell album\u00a0<em>Boss Horn<\/em>\u00a0(1966). This last is limited to 1,000 numbered copies, adorned with a gold Tone Poet Society Exclusive stamp and accompanied by a lithograph of a photo by Francis Wolff. Joe Harley has even announced a few carefully prepared surprises that are sure to delight the label&#8217;s most demanding fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>These are wonderful promises that are sure to satisfy the musical thirst of jazz enthusiasts, music lovers, and audiophiles.<em>29\/01\/2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of the year, Blue Note unveiled the upcoming titles in its flagship Classic Vinyl Series and Tone Poet series for 2026. CLASSIC VINYL SERIES 2026Supervised by Cem Kurosman and still mastered from the original analog tapes by the prolific Kevin Gray, the Classic Vinyl Series continues its exploration of the vast Blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":4893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4894,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions\/4894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}