Editing Blue Note Records (section)

{{Short description|American record label}}
{{Redirect|Blue Note|other uses|Blue Note (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Blue Note Records
| image       = Blue Note Records.svg
| image_alt   = Blue Note logo
| parent      = [[Universal Music Group]]
| founded     = {{start date and age|1939}}
| founder     = [[Alfred Lion]], [[Max Margulis]], [[Francis Wolff]]
| status      = 
| distributor = [[Interscope Capitol Labels Group]] (United States)<br />[[Decca Records]] (United Kingdom)<br />Universal Music Group (International)
| genre    = [[Jazz]]
| country  = United States
| location = Los Angeles
| website     = {{URL|www.bluenote.com}}
}}

'''Blue Note Records''' is an American [[jazz]] record label now owned by [[Universal Music Group]] and operated under [[Capitol Music Group]].<ref name="umg"/> Established in 1939 by [[History of the Jews in Germany|German-Jewish]] emigrants [[Alfred Lion]] and [[Max Margulis]], it derived its name from the [[blue note]]s of [[jazz]] and the [[blues]]. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz around 1947. From there, Blue Note grew to become one of the most prolific, influential and respected jazz labels of the mid-20th century, noted for its role in facilitating the development of [[hard bop]], [[post-bop]] and [[avant-garde jazz]], as well as for its iconic [[modernism|modernist]] art direction.