Blue Train (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP 2025BF50% producer & beat scientist Makaya

producer & beat scientist Makaya McCraven digs into the Blue Note vaults with this new remix project that puts a modern bounce on jazz classics by Art Blakey

an album born out of a pandemic-ordered break from the band’s rigorous touring schedule

Lee Morgan’s The Procrastinator stands in hindsight as one of the monumental achievements of the trumpeter’s prolific late-60s output

chronicles the formative years of Courtney Pine from the mid-1980s to the late-1990s — a period that shaped both his groundbreaking career and the foundations of today’s UK jazz renaissance

The result is an album that honours Coltrane’s vision while reframing it through the lens of the emerging avant-garde

Blue Train (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP 2025BF50% producer & beat scientist MakayaTo mark the 65th anniversary of the albums recording, Blue Train will be released in two special editions on September 16 as part of Blue Notes acclaimed Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series. A 1 LP mono pressing of the original album will be presented in a deluxe gatefold tip on jacket, while the 2 LP stereo collection Blue Train: The Complete Masters will include a second disc featuring seven alternate and incomplete takes, none of which have