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OLD SOUL. NEW SOUND.

Where Jazz meets the Vietnamese vibe.

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About HBN

Where Jazz meets the Vietnamese vibe.Connecting young artists.Renewing the spirit of Vietnamese music.

When old souls
meet new sounds.

Hanoi Blues Note is a pioneering music and arts studio dedicated to connecting and growing the Jazz community in Vietnam. Beyond music production, HBN is a creative space where Vietnamese Jazz is reimagined with a contemporary spirit, bringing the richness of Vietnamese music closer to a new generation.

HBN supports young artists in discovering and shaping their musical identities, while breathing new life into Vietnamese classics through fresh arrangements, translations, and contemporary performances. Through music projects and community-driven initiatives, HBN seeks to ensure that cultural values are preserved, carried forward, and kept alive in the spirit of today.

CHẤT. CHILL. CHÁY.

Quỳnh Phạm with a vintage microphone

The OLD SOUL of Hanoi Blues Note

Quỳnh Phạm

THE JAZZ LADY

Refined. Free-spirited. Full of depth.

On the Jazz stage since the early 2000s, Quỳnh Phạm is known as a “storyteller” through music.

As the founder of Hanoi Blues Note, Quỳnh does more than sing. She builds a space where Jazz lives in a more intimate way, and where young artists can find an identity of their own.

From the album Rồi như đá ngây ngô to the Hãy Yêu Jazz Đi journey, it is a steady, committed choice to bring Jazz and the beauty of Vietnamese music closer to the community.

Hear the Jazz Lady's story ▶

How HBN moves

Four movements.

  1. 01 — CREATE

    Music.
    Made to live.

    Music production · Digital content · Artistic direction · Live programmes

    From the recording to the stage, HBN crafts polished musical works and experiences — while leaving room for the artist to stay free.

    Hear the recordings →
  2. 02 — RETELL

    Ideas,
    into journeys.

    Strategy · Project development · Content creation · Community & commercial

    From an idea or a musical value worth spreading, HBN develops projects with a story, a journey and a life of their own — connecting art with the community and the right commercial opportunities.

    Explore the projects →
  3. 03 — ACCOMPANY

    Young talent.
    Their own identity.

    Mentorship · Artist development · Production · Opportunities

    HBN supports and walks alongside young talent — from craft and production to the stage — so every artist has the chance to find and raise a voice of their own.

    Meet the young artists →
  4. 04 — CONNECT

    Jazz brings us
    closer together.

    Community · Artists · Music organisations · Partners · Brands

    HBN connects artists, communities, organisations and brands, creating more encounters for Vietnamese Jazz to be played, shared and loved.

    See the activities →

Signature project · Hanoi Blues Note

Trumpet

The origin of the project

When beautiful melodies need a new encounter.
When Jazz carries a spirit of freedom, openness and a zest for life.

“Hãy Yêu Jazz Đi” — Let’s Love Jazz — is a community initiative by Hanoi Blues Note that spreads the love of Jazz in the most approachable way: by renewing timeless Vietnamese songs of great artistic value.

There are songs that have lived alongside generations of Vietnamese people.
There are Jazz melodies that carry a spirit of freedom, openness and a zest for life.

“Hãy Yêu Jazz Đi” was born from the wish to create an encounter between these two streams — where timeless musical values are retold in a language closer to today’s audiences.

Beginning with renewed works by Trịnh Công Sơn, the project gradually expands to other songwriters and to Vietnam’s wider musical heritage, opening new dialogues between tradition and the contemporary, between young artists and audiences of every age.

The project is planned to run continuously over three years, in several phases.
Hanoi Blues Note has no ambition to change musical heritage or to solve the “generation gap” in music.
We simply hope to add one more note to contemporary cultural life — with a Jazz full of inspiration.

The project journey

  1. 2025 · Prelude

    The first note

    Rồi như đá ngây ngô

    → Listen
  2. 2025–2026 · Chapter 1

    Jazz & Trịnh

    A dialogue between Jazz and Trịnh — where familiar stories of love and the human condition are retold through new sounds, to reach a new generation.

    → A special chapter
  3. 2026–2027 · Chapter 2

    When Jazz meets the Vietnamese vibe

    The journey continues with songs that have lived through generations — from Trần Tiến, Việt Anh, Bảo Chấn… to other great names of Vietnamese music — retold through a Jazz that feels very much of today.

    → Linh Bof tells street stories through Jazz
  4. From 2027 · Next chapter

    Jazz Phố & Jazz It Young

    Jazz steps onto stages closer to the public, while opening more space for young artists.

    New stages. New voices. New encounters.

    So the Vietnamese Jazz community keeps growing — and new connections can travel further.

    → Walk with us

Recognition

A little note
that travelled far.

VCA 2026 · Vietnam Digital Content Creation Awards

Category
Creative Imprint of the Year

A recognition for a small journey that brings Jazz closer to the community and carries Vietnamese melodies to new listeners.

Quỳnh Phạm receiving the Creative Imprint of the Year award at VCA 2026 VCA 2026 trophy
Composer Trịnh Công Sơn and his sister, singer Trịnh Vĩnh Trinh
Composer Trịnh Công Sơn and his sister, singer Trịnh Vĩnh Trinh. Photo: Dương Minh Long, Nha Trang 1995.

A special chapter

Jazz & Trịnh

Ambassador of Trịnh's Memory

Singer Trịnh Vĩnh Trinh

Companion and spiritual advisor to the project, keeper of precious memories of Trịnh Công Sơn.

With the Ambassador by our side, Trịnh’s musical story — even when retold through the fresh eyes of today’s young generation — keeps whole the spirit of love, compassion and freedom the composer left behind.

Representing the family and loved ones of the late composer, the Ambassador, singer Trịnh Vĩnh Trinh, is the bridge between memory and the present, between heritage and today’s creations.

Music should speak for itself.

PRESS PLAY.

Rồi như đá ngây ngô mini album cover — Quỳnh Phạm

Mini album

RỒI NHƯ ĐÁ NGÂY NGÔ

Quỳnh Phạm · The Jazz Lady

More from HBN

  • Jazz & Trịnh Vol.1

    Album · 5 tracks · Vietnamese and English versions

  • I Lull You to Sleep

    Single · Hanoi Blues Note × Julie · English version of “Tôi ru em ngủ”

  • Phố và Jazz

    Nguyễn Thùy Linh · Hanoi Blues Note

  • Hãy Yêu Jazz ĐiVietnamese
    Folk Songs    Coming soon

    Vietnamese Folk Songs

    Coming soon · Vietnamese folk songs in a unique Jazz colour

Private Talk #3 “Thiền & Trịnh” poster at The Map

Private Talk #3 · The MapPast event

Thiền & Trịnh

Where the rustic, lived-in “zen” of Trịnh’s music meets the freedom and depth of Jazz — brought closer to The Map’s guests through a talk by Hanoi Blues Note’s representative.

When
18.11.2025 · 19:30–21:30
Where
The Map · 16th floor, Viwaseen Tower, 48 Tố Hữu, Đại Mỗ Ward, Hanoi
Guests
Quỳnh Phạm (singer) · Đỗ Thùy Dương (host)
Trịnh & Jazz poster at Hanoi Jazztival 2026 — Women in Jazz

Hanoi International Jazz Festival 2026Past event

Women in Jazz

Hanoi Blues Note brought “Trịnh & Jazz” to the Women in Jazz stage of the Hanoi International Jazz Festival 2026, organised by the Hanoi People’s Committee.

When
17.09.2026
Programme
Trịnh & Jazz
Organiser
Hanoi People’s Committee
Quỳnh Phạm and SenTia students on stage at Gió Đầu Mùa 2025

Winter Symphony · SenTia SchoolPast event

Gió Đầu Mùa

When Jazz first knocked on a school’s door

Jazz is a genre rich in emotional depth, and rarely heard inside a school. Yet on the evening of Gió Đầu Mùa 2025 – Winter Symphony at SenTia School (Hanoi), jazz rang out right inside the campus of a school built on “growing up happy”.

When
23.12.2025
Where
SenTia School, Hanoi
Quỳnh Phạm singing beside the Trịnh Công Sơn statue, ringed by the audience in Trịnh Công Sơn Park, Huế

Community music spacePast event

“Chiều trên quê hương tôi”

In the open-air community music space by the Perfume River at “Chiều trên quê hương tôi”, Quỳnh Phạm — representing “Hãy Yêu Jazz Đi” — brought a fresh breeze. Alongside veteran names long tied to classic Trịnh melodies, they breathed young, improvised Jazz colours into the songs, creating a striking and fresh artistic crossover.

Where
Trịnh Công Sơn Park, by the Perfume River, Huế
Artist
Quỳnh Phạm · Hãy Yêu Jazz Đi
Quỳnh Phạm and band on stage at the Hãy Yêu Jazz Đi Vol.1 minishow

A musical date with “Jazz & Trịnh”Past event

“Hãy Yêu Jazz Đi” Vol.1 Minishow

A gathering of kindred spirits — lovers of Jazz and of Trịnh — to share a masterful blend in a fresh spirit and deep connection.

A night of quiet surprises, as the beauty of the lyrics and the sorrow of the human condition are sung in many languages, like different winds passing through a single soul.

Every performance was a note of shared green: 100% of the profit went to practical efforts rebuilding the lives of people in Central Vietnam and Phú Yên after the floods.

When
20:00 · 05.12.2025
Where
Writers’ Association Publishing House, 65 Nguyễn Du, Hanoi
Fundraising
100% of profit to flood relief in Central Vietnam & Phú Yên
Banner for Em còn nhớ hay em đã quên — 25 years remembering Trịnh Công Sơn

25 years remembering composer Trịnh Công SơnPast event

“Em còn nhớ hay em đã quên”

Marking 25 years since composer Trịnh Công Sơn left this world, a nostalgic music space opened under the theme “Em còn nhớ hay em đã quên” (“Do you still remember, or have you forgotten”).

When
16:00 · 01.04.2026
Where
HCMC Book Street
Artists
Quang Dũng · Đức Tuấn · Đàm Vĩnh Hưng · Đồng Lan · Tấn Sơn · Quỳnh Phạm · Viết Thu · Phương Khanh

Jazz happens when people meet.

From studio to the city.

Come out and “Jazz” — let’s meet out there

Diễm Xưa giữa Mùa Thu Hà Nội poster — 7:30pm, 13.11.2026, Âu Cơ Theatre

Upcoming event13.11.2026 · Hà Nội

Diễm Xưa giữa Mùa Thu Hà Nội

In the loveliest days of Hanoi’s autumn, Trịnh’s music will be retold in a space carefully crafted in sound, staging and emotion.

Japanese legend Tokiko Kato joins Thanh Lam, Trần Mạnh Tuấn, Hà Lê, Thể Thiên, Quỳnh Phạm and Nozomi Lyn for rare musical encounters — across generations, artistic personalities, and the two cultures of Vietnam and Japan.

When
19:30 · 13.11.2026
Where
Âu Cơ Theatre · 8 Huỳnh Thúc Kháng, Hanoi
Artists
Tokiko Kato · People’s Artist Thanh Lam · Trần Mạnh Tuấn · Hà Lê · Thể Thiên · Quỳnh Phạm · Nozomi Lyn · MC Tùng Leo
Music director
Trần Mạnh Tuấn
Presented by
Chillpark · with the family of Trịnh Công Sơn
Trịnh & Jazz poster at Hanoi Jazztival 2026 — Women in Jazz

Jazztival 2026 · Women in Jazz

Hanoi International Jazz Festival · 17.09.2026

“Em còn nhớ hay em đã quên”

HCMC Book Street · 01.04.2026

“Gió Đầu Mùa”

SenTia School · 23.12.2025

“Hãy Yêu Jazz Đi” Vol.1 Minishow

Writers’ Association Publishing House · 05.12.2025

Private Talk “Thiền & Trịnh”

Private talk · Jazz & Trịnh
Hanoi Blues Note group photo on the Talk Vietnam stage, Trịnh Công Sơn backdrop

Talkshow tại Talk Vietnam

Vietnam Today TV · 31.03.2025

“Chiều trên quê hương tôi”

Community performance · Trịnh Công Sơn Park, Huế

Fellow artists

Many colours – One love for Jazz

  • Dattie Do

    Dattie Do

    Fellow artist

  • Nguyễn Thùy Linh

    Nguyễn Thùy Linh

    Fellow artist

  • Trần Thu Hằng

    Trần Thu Hằng

    Fellow artist

  • Quân Phạm

    Quân Phạm

    Fellow artist

  • Piêu

    Piêu

    Fellow artist

  • Nguyễn Quốc Huy Khánh

    Nguyễn Quốc Huy Khanh

    Fellow artist

  • Ngọc Anh

    Ngọc Anh

    Fellow artist

  • Dương Minh Anh

    Dương Minh Anh

    Fellow artist

  • Minh Thu

    Minh Thu

    Fellow artist

  • Trần Minh Thư

    Trần Minh Thư

    Fellow artist

Young talents on the journey

  • Vũ Quốc Đăng

    Vũ Quốc Đăng

    Violin

  • Phạm Công Minh

    Phạm Công Minh

    Guitar

  • So Baritone

    So Baritone

    Bass

  • Khuất Duy Thịnh

    Khuất Duy Thịnh

    Drums

Advisors on the journey

  • Vũ Quang TrungArtistic advisorComposer, pianist
    Music director
  • Quyền Thiện ĐắcArtistic advisorLecturer, Jazz Faculty
    Vietnam National Academy of Music
  • Nguyễn Nhật TuấnEnglish language advisorDean, Faculty of Postgraduate Studies
    Hanoi University
  • Lê Phương KhanhEnglish language advisorMA TESOL (Australia)
    English editor, Foreign Affairs Dept., Voice of Vietnam
  1. CHẤT.Identity — the signature in every sound, every project and every person at HBN. It means care, finesse and honesty to the art.
  2. CHILL.The energy of freedom and connection — the natural breath of Jazz — and the core musical spirit HBN wants to bring to the community.
  3. CHÁY.HBN’s fire of passion, its commitment, and its ambition to carry Vietnamese art out to the world.

Journey with HBN

Shall we
play together?

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