blue notes

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion, Francis Wolff and Max Margulis. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. Blue Note Records is currently owned by the EMI Group and in 2006 has been expanded to fill the function of an umbrella label group bringing together a wide variety of EMI-owned labels and imprints specializing in the growing market segment of music for adults (see History-Resurrection, below).
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In jazz and blues, blue notes are notes sung or played at a lower pitch than those of the major scale for expressive purposes. Typically the alteration is a semitone or less, but this varies among performers.  Country blues, in particular, features wide variations from the tonic but still with the blue-note feeling.
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The Blue Notes may be a reference to:The Blue Notes, a South African jazz bandHarold Melvin & the Blue Notes, an American R&B group which featured Teddy PendegrassNeil Young's band on the album This Note's for You, later renamed Ten Men Workin'Bluenotes, a Canadian apparel retailer"Blue Notes", an a cappella group at the University of VirginiaThe Bluenotes, a vocal group from North Carolina
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