BRIDPORT’s Art Deco theatre, the Electric Palace, is a stylish setting for a Jazz Jurassica event on Saturday 18th July at 3pm, celebrating Blue Note and the history of jazz.

The Sound of Blue Note — the band — takes its name from a sound that shaped jazz history. It’s a sound that jazz buffs will recognise straight away – catchy, stylish and full of swing. The sound comes from the legendary Blue Note Records, the label that, in the late 1950s and early ’60s, captured a style that still feels fresh today.

This show brings the two together. A band named after the sound, playing the music that defined it. The repertoire draws on some of the great names of the label — Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard and Hank Mobley. It’s music that is direct, expressive and built to swing, a defining moment in jazz history. The musicians are Andy Urquhart, trumpet, Terry Quinney, saxophone, Phil Doyle, Ben Taylor, bass, and Andy Chapman, drums.

The original Blue Note sound still matters because it set a standard and backed artists who shaped modern jazz. It valued originality as much as technique and created recordings with a balance of discipline and freedom that became part of the language of jazz.

Blue Note still records new artists and new music – musicians such as Robert Glasper, Gregory Porter and Norah Jones carry that legacy forward, blending new influences with the label’s roots in jazz, soul and groove.