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blue note

NOUN
  1. a flattened third or seventh

How To Use blue note In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • She wore a pink sari with a rainbow trim; she was writing in a blue notebook. Times, Sunday Times
  • Only twelve years ago I wrote about “one of those little episodes in the relations between nations that illustrates the nature of alliances,” and in came that little blue note from Buckley expressing dismay with his customary one-word excoriation. No Uncertain Terms
  • He encored with a scorching "You Send Me" so hot that it probably blasted the yellow paint off of any taxi cabs that had the bad luck to be passing in front of the Blue Note at that moment. The Jazz Scene: Columbus Day, Ladies' Night
  • She wore a pink sari with a rainbow trim; she was writing in a blue notebook. Times, Sunday Times
  • He became best known as a fiery and energetic hard bopper with a string of classic Blue Note albums from the 60s to his name, as well as being a graduate of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
  • The Blue Note Quartet will be the guest artists tomorrow night.
  • The Blue Note Quartet will be the guest artists tomorrow night.
  • Wonderful old songs, and slowly my fingers get used to playing blues scales, blue notes and the squashed sliding thirds and fifths of this old music fusing Irish, Scottish, French, African and English melodies.
  • The bass is a fluid boom, sounding like it was sampled from an old Charlie Mingus acoustic bass groove, and the drums sound like they originated on an old skool Blue Note or Impulse album.
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