About one third of jazz is in blues form with twelve measures4 in a song and USES — blue notes, "the flatted third, fifth, and seventh notes of the musical scale."

大约有三分之一的爵士乐采用蓝调形式，一首歌有12小节，使用“蓝音”，即把第三、五、七个音阶降半音(如c大调的E、G、B)。

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The company even developed a relationship with Capitol Records, releasing Blue Note Blend coffee and an accompanying jazz compilation on compact disc.

公司甚至还同百代唱片公司开展合作关系，推出了一款蓝调音符混合咖啡，并附带有一张爵士乐专辑的光盘。

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Will released his first solo jazz CD as a leader in 2000: the Will Calhoun Quintet: Live at the Blue Note.

会发表他的首独奏爵士乐裁谈会作为一个领导人，在2000年：将卡尔洪五重奏：住在蓝色注。

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This is the sound of a traditional jazz chord progression: But Miles Davis designed the music on "Kind of Blue" around a modal form.

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Since then Dave Brubeck has had many different quartets His best known jazz works include "In Your Own Sweet Way," "The Duke" and "Blue Rondo a La Turk."

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Despite swirling changes in jazz over the decades, Blue Note has managed to stay afloat with distinguished players, from its earliest years with stride pianist James P.Johnson;

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Out Louder recalls the gritty swamp soul-jazz of late '60s Blue Note records.

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In 1959, Columbia Records released three discs poised to set the future course of jazz: Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue, " Dave Brubeck's "Time Out" and "Mingus Ah Um" by bassist, bandleader and composer Charles Mingus.

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"Kind of Blue" has come to be considered the essential jazz record, and "Time Out" the essential Brubeck record.

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