Blue Note Records will commemorate the label's 70th anniversary with the Jan. 13 release of "Mosaic: A Celebration of Blue Note Records." The eight-song collection features classic Blue Note music re-envisioned by The Blue Note 7, which features pianist and musical director Bill Charlap, according to a press release. Charlap is joined on the recording by trumpeter Nicholas Payton, tenor saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, alto saxophonist/flutist Steve Wilson, guitarist Peter Bernstein, bassist Peter Washington and drummer Lewis Nash.

Jazz label Blue Note, which celebrated its 70th birthday yesterday (12/6), was launched when a young jazz fan named Alfred Lion recorded two of his favorite boogie-woogie pianists at a New York studio. That first session (Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis-The First Day), helped start the label that became home to virtually every major figure in modern jazz, from Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane to Wynton Marsalis and Joe Lovano.