‘Remember Me’: Blue Boy’s Blue Note Moment With Marlena Shaw

‘Remember Me’: Blue Boy’s Blue Note Moment With Marlena Shaw

The storied jazz catalog of Blue Note Records has been a frequent source of samples by modern-day dance, R&B and hip-hop artists and producers. One of the most fruitful of those associations made the British charts on February 1, 1997 for an artist known on disc as the Blue Boy. It helped New York jazz-soul vocal stylist Marlena Shaw to make a key appearance on a Top 10 hit single. The Blue Boy was the recording name of DJ Lex Blackmore, who was…