Next year, the legendary jazz label Blue Note turns 70, and to celebrate they’ve put together the all-star septet the Blue Note 7–pianist Bill Charlap, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, tenor saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, alto saxophonist/flutist Steve Wilson, guitarist Peter Bernstein, bassist Peter Washington, and drummer Lewis Nash–to release a new album and tour in early 2009. This is undoubtedly just the beginning of the label’s anniversary activities; with any luck there’ll be some kind of televised documentary as well. Who would want to resist watching Blue Note’s luminaries–too many to name comfortably here, but Lee Morgan, Herbie Hancock, Jackie McLean, Andrew Hill, and Joe Henderson, just off the top of my head, ought to get you started–in their prime, in action?