Blue Note

American record label; main imprint of Blue Note Records, Inc.

Parent label: Capitol Music Group·Est. 1939

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Blue Note is a label that is mostly known for its releases in the jazz genre. Label Code: LC 0133 / LC 00133 Founded by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis in 1939, the label was soon joined by Lion's childhood friend Francis Wolff (who took photographs during rehearsals used on LP sleeves). The early years saw BN issue 78rpm sides featuring traditional jazz artists and small-group swing, but from 1947 the company began to record the emerging bop movement with sides from Thelonious Monk and, in the next few years, Bud Powell and Fats Navarro. From the 1950s, Blue Note recorded musicians such as the Hammond organist Jimmy Smith and artists in the hard-bop idiom such as Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. Albums by long-time artists Lee Morgan (The Sidewinder) and Horace Silver (Song For My Father) made a significant impact in the 1960s. Meanwhile, the label recorded more exploratory albums by Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor, among others Lion sold the label to Liberty in 1965 and retired in 1967. Wolff died in 1971. By now, more commercially-oriented music, including jazz-fusion, had started to be issued on the label, but in 1975, then-owners United Artists Records launched a reissue program of Blue Note's back catalog which lasted until 1980. The previous year, Blue Note became a label of Capitol Records. Beginning in 1982, Blue Note sessions began appearing in box-sets from Mosaic Records (co-owned by Michael Cuscuna). The label itself was relaunched as part of Capitol subsidiary Manhattan Records in 1985 and began making new recordings, re-releasing albums and previously unissued material from the Lion-Wolff era found by Cuscuna. In 1989, Manhattan Records was discontinued and Blue Note became the division under which all of Capitol-EMI's jazz activities were organized (two years later, Manhattan Records was revived for smooth jazz and pop-jazz releases). A 2005 reorganization at both Capitol Records and parent company EMI put Blue Note along with sister labels Manhattan Records, Angel, Virgin Classics and Metro Blue under the Blue Note Label Group umbrella covering jazz, classical and adult pop recordings. In 2012, Don Was succeeded Bruce Lundvall as Blue Note's president, and the label's owner, EMI, was purchased by the Universal Music Group. Please note, many Blue Note issues also carry an EMI logo. This is not a label and EMI should not be added as a label. Instead it indicates that Blue Note was part of the EMI Group. Blue Note® is a registered trademark of Capitol Records, Inc.

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Blue Train

John Coltrane · 1958

Studio Album

Come Away With Me

Norah Jones · 2002

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Somethin' Else

Cannonball Adderley · 1958

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Moanin'

Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers · 1959

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Feels Like Home

Norah Jones · 2004

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Maiden Voyage

Herbie Hancock · 1965

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Out To Lunch!

Eric Dolphy · 1964

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Στο Πιάνο... Ο Μίμης Πλέσσας

Μίμης Πλέσσας · 1967

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The Complete Atomic Basie

Count Basie · 1958

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The Sidewinder

Lee Morgan · 1964

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Empyrean Isles

Herbie Hancock · 1964

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Song For My Father (Cantiga Para Meu Pai)

The Horace Silver Quintet · 1964

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Cool Struttin'

Sonny Clark · 1958

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Midnight Blue

Kenny Burrell · 1963

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A Night In Tunisia

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers · 1961

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Not Too Late

Norah Jones · 2007

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Money Jungle

Duke Ellington · 1962

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Undercurrent

Bill Evans / Jim Hall · 1962

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Takin' Off

Herbie Hancock · 1962

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The Fall

Norah Jones · 2009

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Tourist

St Germain · 2000

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Go!

Dexter Gordon · 1962

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The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 1

Bud Powell · 1955

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Our Man In Paris

Dexter Gordon · 1963

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Speak No Evil

Wayne Shorter · 1966

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Sonny Rollins Vol. 2

Sonny Rollins · 1957

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Simple Pleasures

Bobby McFerrin · 1988

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Chet Baker Sings

Chet Baker · 1956

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Soul Station

Hank Mobley · 1960

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Newk's Time

Sonny Rollins · 1959

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...Little Broken Hearts

Norah Jones · 2012

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Midnight Special

Jimmy Smith · 1961

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Back At The Chicken Shack

The Incredible Jimmy Smith · 1963

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King Kong - Jean-Luc Ponty Plays The Music Of Frank Zappa

Jean-Luc Ponty · 1970

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The Scene Changes, Vol. 5

The Amazing Bud Powell · 1959

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The Sermon!

Jimmy Smith · 1959

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Nat King Cole Sings / George Shearing Plays

Nat King Cole & George Shearing · 1962

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Speak Like A Child

Herbie Hancock · 1968

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Hand On The Torch

Us3 · 1993

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Now He Sings, Now He Sobs

Chick Corea · 1968

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JuJu

Wayne Shorter · 1965

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Volume One

Sonny Rollins · 1957

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Something Cool

June Christy, Pete Rugulo And His Orchestra · 1954

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Bass On Top

Paul Chambers Quartet · 1957

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Idle Moments

Grant Green · 1965

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The Real McCoy

McCoy Tyner · 1967

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Blowin' The Blues Away

The Horace Silver Quintet & Trio · 1959

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Page One

Joe Henderson · 1963

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