Artist	Song
Albert Ammons & Meade Lux Lewis	Boogie Woogie Stomp
from The First Day (1992)
Sidney Bechet	Summertime
from The Best Of Sidney Bechet (1994)
Wayne Shorter	Dance Cadaverous
from Speak No Evil (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (1999)
Lou Donaldson	Alligator Bogaloo
from Alligator Bogaloo (1987)
Hank Mobley	Funk In Deep Freeze
from Hank Mobley Quintet (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (2008)
Freddie Hubbard	Weaver of Dreams
from Ready for Freddie (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (2004)
Stanley Turrentine	Cherry Point
from A Chip Off the Old Block (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (2009)
Joe Henderson	Recorda Me
from Page One (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (1999)
Tina Brooks	True Blue
from True Blue (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (2005)
Jimmy Smith	Blues After All
from Jimmy Smith - Retrospective (2004)
Baby Face Willette Quartet	Somethin' Strange
from Face to Face (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (2007)
Benny Green	Down By the Riverside
from Testifyin'! - Benny Green TrioLive at the Village Vanguard (1992)
Bobby McFerrin	Turtle Shoes
from Spontaneous Inventions (1986)
Cassandra Wilson	Skylark
from New Moon Daughter (1996)
Cecil Taylor	Song
from Jazz Advance (1991)
Andrew Hill	Black Fire
from Black Fire (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (2004)
Jackie McLean	Jacknife
from Jacknife (2002)
Earl Klugh	Angelina
from Earl Klugh (2005)
Fats Navarro & Tadd Dameron	Boperation
from The Complete Blue Note and Capitol Recordings of Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron (1995)
Herbie Nichols Trio	The Gig
from The Complete Blue Note Recordings: Herbie Nichols (1997)
Big John Patton	Let 'Em Roll
from The History of Blue Note: 70th Anniversary (2009)
Johnny Griffin	Mil Dew
from Introducing Johnny Griffin (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (2007)
Robert Glasper	F.T.B.
from In My Element (2007)
J.J. Johnson	Get Happy
from The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Vol. 1 (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (2001)
The Blue Note 7	Little B's Poem
from Mosaic - A Celebration of Blue Note Records (2009)

Comment:

Blue Note's name came from the term for the tone that gives a melody its "blue" edge. That potent touch of tight, tart soul shows up all over the seven-decade story that started with the 1939 Albert Ammons/Meade "Lux" Lewis session that birthed the piano-pounding "Boogie Woogie Stomp." It's there in the sensual sigh Cassandra Wilson brings to her husky-voiced reinvention of the Hoagy Carmichael/Johnny Mercer standard "Skylark" too. And you can still hear it breaking through in the new millennium when piano prince Robert Glasper shakes up a cocktail of hip-hop beats and "blue" bop riffs on "F.T.B."

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