Editing Blue Note Records (section)

===Lion and Wolff embrace bebop===
[[File:Thelonious Monk, Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947 (William P. Gottlieb 06221).jpg|thumb|221x221px|[[Thelonious Monk]] performing in 1947, the same year he would record his first sessions for Blue Note]]
Towards the end of the [[Second World War]], saxophonist [[Ike Quebec]] was among those who recorded for the label.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> Quebec would act as a talent scout for the label until his death in 1963.<ref name="GMJ">{{cite Grove|last1=Rye|first1=Howard|last2=Kernfeld|first2=Barry|date=2003|title=Blue Note (jazz)(ii)|doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J048400}}</ref> Although stylistically belonging to a previous generation, he could appreciate the new bebop style of jazz, the creation of which is usually attributed to [[Dizzy Gillespie]] and [[Charlie Parker]].

In 1947, pianist [[Thelonious Monk]] recorded his first sessions as a leader for the label, which were also the Blue Note debut of drummer [[Art Blakey]], who also recorded his first session as leader for the label at this time.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> Lion recorded several Monk sessions before he began to release the resulting sides. Monk's recordings for Blue Note between 1947 and 1952 did not sell well for some years, but have since come to be regarded as the most important of his career. Other bebop or [[modernist]] musicians who recorded for Blue Note during the late 1940s and early 1950s were pianist [[Tadd Dameron]], trumpeters [[Fats Navarro]] and [[Howard McGhee]], saxophonist [[James Moody (saxophonist)|James Moody]] and pianist [[Bud Powell]].<ref name="LarkinGE"/> The sessions by Powell are commonly ranked among his best. [[J. J. Johnson]] and trumpeter [[Miles Davis]] both recorded several sessions for Blue Note between 1952 and 1954, but by then the musicians who had created bebop were starting to explore other styles.

The recording of musicians performing in an earlier jazz idiom, such as [[Sidney Bechet]] and clarinettist [[George Lewis (clarinetist)|George Lewis]], continued into the 1950s.