Artist	Song
Wynton Marsalis Quartet	Delfeayo's Dilemma
from Live At Blues Alley (1988)
Branford Marsalis	Spartacus
from The Steep Anthology (2004)
James Carter	Lester Leaps In
from Conversin' With the Elders (2010)
Marthaniel Roberts	E. Dankworth
from Deep In the Shed (2008)
Roy Hargrove	Roy Allan
from Family (1995)
Terence Blanchard	Sidney
from Wandering Moon (2000)
Joshua Redman	The Deserving Many
from Wish (2009)
Steely Dan	Rikki Don't Lose that Number
from A Decade of Steely Dan (Remastered) (1996)
Joe Jackson	Breaking Us in Two
from Night and Day (1989)
Santana	Incident At Neshabur
from Abraxas (1998)
Blood, Sweat & Tears	Maiden Voyage
from The Best of Blood, Sweat & Tears - What Goes Up (1988)
Brad Mehldau	Wonderwall
from Brad Mehldau Trio (Live) (2008)
Kenny Garrett	Brother Hubbard
from Songbook (2010)
Nicholas Payton	Zigaboogaloo
from Payton's Place (1998)
Joey DeFrancesco	Moanin'
from The Street of Dreams (2005)
Ravi Coltrane	E.J.
from In Flux (2005)
Steve Wilson	Wilsonian Alto
from Soulful Song (2003)
Christian McBride, Nicholas Payton and Mark Whitfield	Driftin'
from Fingerpainting - The Music of Herbie Hancock (1997)
Martin Sasse Trio	A Groovy Affair (feat. Peter Bernstein)
from A Groovy Affair (2003)
James Taylor Quartet	Isabella Boogaloo
from Message from the Godfather (2001)

Comment:

Where can you find Blue Note's influence in today's jazz? Everywhere. Almost anywhere you turn, some young lion's revering — or reinventing — Alfred Lion's legendary sound. You can't really talk about contemporary jazz without bringing the prolific Marsalis brothers into the conversation. Eldest son Branford hurls out fistfuls of notes just for the joy of it in the crazy air dance of "Spartacus," trading ideas like an over-caffeinated philosophy major in a 3 a.m. dorm argument. Meanwhile, buttoned-down brother Wynton shows off more chops than a butcher's display case in the pre-fusion retro-hip of "Delfeayo's Dilemma." If you [i]really[/i] want to get unstuck in time, check out Joey DeFrancesco's "Moanin'," a soulful '60s shot of Hammond B-3 . . . cut 30 years later. And while the jazz changes of Steely Dan's [i]Aja[/i] introduced the rock generation to the joys of diminished 7th chords, their biggest hit, "Rikki Don't Lose that Number," reveals the band's roots, actually borrowing its intro from Horace Silver's "Song for My Father." From Joe Jackson to Joshua Redman, from Santana to Christian McBride, your favorite artists got schooled — and cooled — by playing the grooves off Blue Note's records.

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