Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. It is principally associated with the "hard bop" style of jazz (mixing bebop with other forms of music including soul, blues, rhythm and blues and gospel). Horace Silver, Jimmy Smith and Art Blakey are the artists most closely linked to the label, but almost all the important musicians in postwar jazz recorded for Blue Note on occasion.

Other Blue Notes

Blue Note is also a chain of Jazz clubs with restaurants; these are not affiliated with the record label. The first one was opened in New York City, then others in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Nagoya all in Japan, Milano in Italy and Seoul in South Korea.

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