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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.
During the 1950s and 1960s Blue Note issued a large number of influential jazz records by a large number of the finest players of the day, including jazz legends such as Art Blakey, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Wayne Shorter and Horace Silver.
Rudy Van Gelder recorded most Blue Note releases during this period, and his deft engeneering was, in its own way, as important and revolutionary as the music.
Blue Note were also known for their striking and unusual album cover designs (usually photographed by Francis Wolff and designed by Reid Miles), which extended to the edge of the cover and which was often stained, featuring sans-serif typeface, and often a rectangular white title band.
Blue Note was acquired by Liberty Records in 1965. When EMI purchased Liberty in 1979, it phased out the Blue Note label until 1985, when it was relaunched as part of EMI's Manhattan Records, both for re-issues and new recordings.
The Blue Note catalogue and trademark are now owned by Capitol Records, who have pursued an active reissue program in recent years. Some of Blue Note's output has appeared in CD Box sets issued by Mosaic Records.
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