Usually means: Expressive, emotional pitch in jazz.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. blue note: Merriam-Webster
  2. blue note: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blue note: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blue note: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blue note: Vocabulary.com
  6. blue note: Wiktionary
  7. blue note: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. blue note: Dictionary.com
  9. Blue Note (jazz clubs), Blue Note, Blue note (disambiguation), Blue note: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. blue note: Rhymezone
  11. blue note: FreeDictionary.org
  12. blue note: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. blue note: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See blue_notes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (blue note)

noun:  (idiomatic, music) The flatted 5th scale degree in the blues scale, also known as the flat five.
noun:  (idiomatic, music) Any of the notes that produce the characteristic clashes with the underlying harmony associated with blues music. The flatted third, flatted fifth and flatted seventh can all be considered blue notes when played over major or dominant chord progressions, while only the flatted fifth will clash with minor chord progressions.

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