Artist	Song
Norah Jones	Cold Cold Heart
from Come Away With Me (2002)
Cassandra Wilson	Lover Come Back to Me
from Loverly (2008)
Dianne Reeves	Softly As in the Morning Sunrise
from I Remember (1991)
John Scofield	Don't Shoot the Messenger
from Hand Jive (1994)
Bobby McFerrin	Freedom Is a Voice
from Bang! Zoom (1995)
Stanley Jordan	For You
from Live in New York (1998)
Charlie Hunter	Nothin' But Trouble
from Charlie Hunter (2000)
Joe Lovano	Six and Four
from Joyous Encounter (2005)
Eliane Elias	Bowing to Bud
from Everything I Love (2000)
Robert Glasper	One for 'Grew (For Mulgrew Miller)
from In My Element (2007)
Greg Osby	Entruption
from Inner Circle (2002)
Gonzalo Rubalcaba	No Name
from Images (1992)
Jacky Terrasson	Smile
from Smile (2002)
Bob Belden	In Flight
from Black Dahlia (2001)
Jason Moran	Kinda Dukish
from Black Stars (2001)
Kurt Elling	Orange Blossoms In Summertime
from Flirting With Twilight (2001)
Renee Rosnes	Hanuman
from Life On Earth (2002)
Lionel Loueke	Seven Teens
from Karibu (2008)
Bill Charlap Trio	Blue Skies
from Written in the Stars (2000)
The Blue Note 7	Little B's Poem
from Mosaic - A Celebration of Blue Note Records (2009)

Comment:

Jazz is all about changes and improvisation, and while Blue Note's founders might not recognize today's version of the label they started, they'd definitely be proud of its success, both financially and artistically. For example, take nine-time GRAMMY® winner Norah Jones, as she strips Hank Williams' achy-breaky ballad "Cold Cold Heart" of its hillbilly heritage and drops it into the soft blue spotlight of a smoke-filled club. Saxman Joe Lovano blows a mean tenor straight out of the Trane playbook in his supple cover of Oliver Nelson's "Six and Four," skating along the outside edge of the tune's melodic groove without straying totally off the reservation. And if you ever wondered how to get the sound of a top-down, breeze-in-your-hair summer joyride onto tape, check out longtime Lovano cohort John Scofield's gently swinging "Don't Shoot the Messenger," cool as a watermelon slice on a sweltering July afternoon. But don't stop there — from Cassandra Wilson to Stanley Jordan, from Bobby McFerrin to Charlie Hunter, we've got the artists of today who are building Blue Note's reputation for tomorrow . . . and decades to come.

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