The Blue Series
from Thirsty Ear Records

In early 2000, Thirsty Ear began the Blue Series, an ongoing jazz series designed to take aim at the question, "what is jazz?".  Under the direction of Thirsty Ear executive producers Peter Gordon and pianist Matthew Shipp, the series as quickly become one of the premier documents of the face of jazz in America today.

"Regardless of genre, music trends are showing a growing complacency to challenge convention.  Feeling frustrated by this stagnancy, I realized that by creating a series of records marrying jazz's many languages, perhaps a new form could arise.  The Blue Series attempts to do this in a way that will, hopefully, challenge, probe, excite, and perhaps even anger listeners as we try to strip away old conventions with a new convention." -- Peter Gordon

"The Blue Series has carved a niche for themselves as instantly recognizable as '60s Blue Note or '70s ECM." -- The Village Voice

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