07 Oct
545: Blue Note Records forms
German immigrants Alfred Lion, and Francis Wolff, founded Blue Note, a label devoted to a quintessentially American art form of jazz and the blues in 1939. It derives its name from the characteristic “blue notes” of jazz and the blues. The label is now owned by EMI Group, and in 2006 was expanded to bring together a wide variety of EMI-owned labels. Throughout its history it was known for bebop and mixing bebop with other forms of music including soul, blues, rhythm and blues and gospel. Blue Notes sound included Count Basie, Bud Powell, J.J. Johnson, Miles Davis, Art Blakely, Clifford Brown, and many many more.
Blue Note Records Site
NPR story on the Biography of Blue Note