Design rationale
Blue Note Modern keeps jazz's serif-plus-grotesk backbone but pushes the display serif heavier and the accent color further — an oxblood `#5C1A1A` or brass at higher saturation than the ECM default, used across ticket links and pull-quotes rather than sparingly. Photography leans toward higher-contrast stage shots rather than strictly studio-still portraiture.
Section rhythm stays the same as every jazz build (asymmetric two-column, metadata right, content left, 96-160px vertical spacing between sections), because that liner-note-style layout is what makes the gig calendar and press section scannable — the style change is about tone, not structure.
Who this fits
Touring trios and quartets playing regular club dates rather than concert-hall bookings, where a slightly bolder visual identity helps the site double as a poster-adjacent promotional tool without abandoning the genre's press-kit credibility conventions.