Blue Note現代爵士4000系列
Blue Note的現代爵士系列隨著下面這些LP延續到了70年代，同樣，這裡的許多都發行了單聲道（BLP系列)和立體聲(BST 84000系列)兩個版本, 而從4258(Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - The Witch Doctor,錄製于March 14, 1961) 開始，所有之後的LP（除了三個例外4263, 4264, 和 4265）都只以立體聲發行. 時代在改變，到60年代中期主流爵士樂市場開始萎縮， 而Alfred Lion無力抗拒Liberty開出的誘人高價， 1965 Blue Note被Liberty唱片公司收購; 而Reid Miles 和Alfred Lion本人相繼于1967年從Blue Note退休，而接下來負責制作的Fracis Wolff于1971年辭世，而音樂的風格也完全投向流行音樂. 儘管這裡4000系列的後期錄音開始完全體現這種傾向，但Blue Note在60年代初和中期仍然留下了無數當時最好的爵士樂錄音。這裡4000系列也是中的前300張大多數在日本通過東芝EMi重發，標號從TOCJ-4001開始.
4001: Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time (9/22/57)
4002: Jimmy Smith - House Party (8/25/57, 2/25/57)
4003: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin' (10/30/58)
4004: Art Blakey - Holiday for Skins, Volume 1 (11/9/58)
4005: Art Blakey - Holiday for Skins, Volume 2 (11/9/58)
4006: Dizzy Reece - Blues in Trinity (8/24/58)
4007: Donald Byrd - Off to the Races (12/21/58)
4008: Horace Silver Quintet - Finger Poppin' (2/1/59)
4009: Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 5 - The Scene Changes (12/29/58)
4010: Bennie Green - Walkin' and Talkin' (1/25/59)
4011: Jimmy Smith - The Sermon (8/25/57, 2/25/58)
4012: Lou Donaldson with the Three Sounds (2/18/59)
4013: Jackie McLean - New Soil (5/2/59)
4014: The Three Sounds - Bottoms Up (2/11/59)
4015: Art Blakey - At the Jazz Corner of the World, Volume 1 (4/15/59)
4016: Art Blakey - At the Jazz Corner of the World, Volume 2 (4/15/59)
4017: Horace Silver - Blowin' the Blues Away (8/29/59, 8/30/59, 9/13/59)
4018: Walter Davis - Davis Cup (8/2/59)
4019: Donald Byrd - Byrd in Hand (5/31/59)
4020: The Three Sounds - Good Deal (5/20/59)
4021: Kenny Burrell - At the Five Spot (8/25/59)
4022: Duke Pearson - Profile (10/25/59)
4023: Dizzy Reece - Star Bright (11/14/59, 11/19/59)
4024: Jackie McLean - Swing, Swang, Swingin' (10/20/59)
4025: Lou Donaldson - The Time is Right (10/31/59, 11/28/59)
4026: Donald Byrd - Fuego (10/4/59)
4027: Freddie Redd - Music from "The Connection" (2/15/60)
4028: Horace Parlan - Movin' and Groovin' (2/29/60)
4029: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - The Big Beat (3/6/60)
4030: Jimmy Smith - Crazy Baby (1/4/60)
4031: Hank Mobley - Soul Station (2/7/60)
4032: Sonny Red - Out of the Blue (1/23/60)
4033: Dizzy Reece - Soundin' Off (5/12/60)
4034: Lee Morgan - Leeway (4/28/60)
4035: Duke Pearson - Tender Feelin's (12/16/59)
4036: Lou Donaldson - Sunny Side Up (2/5/60, 2/28/60)
4037: Horace Parlan - Us Three (4/20/60)
4038: Jackie McLean - Capuchin Swing (4/17/60)
4039: Stanley Turrentine - Look Out! (6/18/60)
4040: Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame (6/19/60)
4041: Tina Brooks - True Blue (6/25/60)
4042: Horace Silver Quintet - Horace-Scope (7/8/60, 7/9/60)
4043: Horace Parlan - Speakin' My Piece (7/14/60)
4044: The Three Sounds - Moods (6/28/60)
4045: Freddie Redd - Shades of Redd (8/13/60)
4046: Duke Jordan - Flight to Jordan (8/4/60)
4047: Art Taylor - A. T.'s Delight (8/6/60)
4048: Donald Byrd - Byrd in Flight (1/17/60, 1/25/60, 7/10/60)
4049: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - A Night in Tunisia (8/14/60)
4050: Jimmy Smith - Home Cookin' (5/24/59, 6/16/59)
4051: Jackie McLean - Jackie's Bag (1/18/59)
4052: Tina Brooks - Back to the Tracks (9/1/60, 10/20/60)
4053: Lou Donaldson - Lightfoot (12/14/58)
4054: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Meet You..., Volume 1 (9/14/60)
4055: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Meet You..., Volume 2 (9/14/60)
4056: Freddie Hubbard - Goin' Up (11/6/60)
4057: Stanley Turrentine with the Three Sounds - Blue Hour (12/16/60)
4058: Hank Mobley - Roll Call (11/13/60)
4059: Kenny Drew - Undercurrent (12/11/60)
4060: Donald Byrd - At the Half Note Cafe, Volume 1 (11/11/60)
4061: Donald Byrd - At the Half Note Cafe, Volume 2 (11/11/60)
4062: Horace Parlan - Headin' South (12/6/60)
4063: Kenny Dorham - Whistle Stop (1/15/61)
4064: Grant Green - Grant's First Stand (1/28/61)
4065: Stanley Turrentine - Comin' Your Way (1/20/61)
4066: Lou Donaldson - Here 'Tis (1/23/61)
4067: Jackie McLean - Bluesnik (1/8/61)
4068: Baby Face Willette - Face to Face (1/30/61)
4069: Stanley Turrentine - Up at Minton's, Volume 1 (2/23/61)
4070: Stanley Turrentine - Up at Minton's, Volume 2 (2/23/61)
4071: Grant Green - Green Street (4/1/61)
4072: The Three Sounds - Feelin' Good (6/28/60)
4073: Freddie Hubbard - Hub Cap (4/9/61)
4074: Horace Parlan - On the Spur of the Moment (3/18/61)
4075: Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk (5/2/61)
4076: Horace Silver Quintet - Doin' the Thing (5/19/61, 5/20/61)
4077: Dexter Gordon - Doin' Allright (5/6/61)
4078: Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special (4/25/60)
4079: Lou Donaldson - Gravy Train (4/27/61)
4080: Hank Mobley - Workout (3/26/61)
4081: Stanley Turrentine - Dearly Beloved (6/8/61)
4082: Horace Parlan - Up and Down (6/18/61)
4083: Dexter Gordon - Dexter Calling (5/9/61)
4084: Baby Face Willette - Stop and Listen (5/22/61)
4085: Freddie Hubbard - Ready for Freddie (8/21/61)
4086: Grant Green - Grantstand (8/1/61)
4087: Leo Parker - Let Me Tell You 'Bout It (9/9/61)
4088: The Three Sounds - Here We Come (12/13/60, 12/14/60)
4089: Jackie McLean - A Fickle Sonance (10/26/61)
4090: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Mosaic (10/2/61)
4091: Sonny Clark - Leapin' and Lopin' (11/13/61)
4092: Kenny Clarke - The Golden Eight (5/18/61, 5/19/61)
4093: Ike Quebec - Heavy Soul (11/26/61)
4094: Fred Jackson - Hootin' 'n' Tootin' (2/5/62)
4095: Leo Parker - Rollin' with Leo (10/12/61, 10/20/61)
4096: Stanley Turrentine - That's Where It's At (1/2/62)
4097: Art Blakey - The African Beat (1/24/62)
4098: Ike Quebec - Blue and Sentimental (12/16/61, 12/23/61)
4099: Grant Green - Sunday Morning (6/4/61)
4100: Jimmy Smith - Plays Fats Waller (1/23/62)
4101: Donald Byrd - Royal Flush (9/21/61)
4102: The Three Sounds - Hey There (8/13/61)
4103: Ike Quebec - Congo Lament (1/20/62)
4104: Art Blakey - Buhaina's Delight (11/28/61, 12/18/61)
4105: Ike Quebec - It Might as Well Be Spring (12/9/61)
4106: Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring (3/19/62)
4107: Don Wilkerson - Preach Brother! (6/18/62)
4108: Lou Donaldson - The Natural Soul (5/9/62)
4109: Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off (5/28/62)
4110: Horace Silver - The Tokyo Blues (7/13/62, 7/14/62)
4111: Grant Green - The Latin Bit (4/26/62)
4112: Dexter Gordon - Go (8/27/62)
4113: Freddie Roach - Down to Earth (8/23/62)
4114: Ike Quebec - Bossa Nova Soul Samba (10/5/62)
4115: Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones (10/10/62)
4116: Jackie McLean - The Jackie McLean Quintet (6/14/62)
4117: Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack (4/25/60)
4118: Donald Byrd - Free Form (12/11/61)
4119: Charlie Rouse - Bossa Nova Bacchanal (11/26/62)
4120: The Three Sounds - It Just Got to Be (12/13/60, 12/14/60)
4121: Don Wilkerson - Elder Don (5/3/62)
4122: Stanley Turrentine - Jubilee Shout (10/18/62)
4123: Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue (1/8/63)
4124: Donald Byrd - A New Perspective (1/12/63)
4125: Lou Donaldson - Good Gracious (1/24/63)
4126: Herbie Hancock - My Point of View (3/19/63)
4127: Kenny Dorham - Una Mas (4/1/63)
4128: Freddie Roach - Mo' Greens Please (1/21/63, 3/11/63)
4129: Stanley Turrentine - Never Let Me Go (2/13/63)
4130: Big John Patton - Along Came John (4/5/63)
4131: Horace Silver - Silver's Serenade (5/7/63, 5/8/63)
4132: Grant Green - Feelin' the Spirit (12/21/62)
4133: Dexter Gordon - A Swingin' Affair (8/29/62)
4134: Horace Parlan - Happy Frame of Mind (2/15/63)
4135: Freddie Hubbard - Here to Stay (12/27/62)
4136: Solomon Ilori - African High Life (4/25/63)
4137: Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond (4/30/63)
4138: Harold Vick - Steppin' Out (5/27/63)
4139: Grant Green - Am I Blue (5/16/63)
4140: Joe Henderson - Page One (6/3/63)
4141: Jimmy Smith - Rockin' the Boat (2/7/63)
4142: Blue Mitchell - Step Lightly (8/13/63)
4143: John Patton - Blue John (7/11/63, 8/2/63)
4144: Johnny Coles - Little Johnny C (7/18/63, 8/9/63)
4145: Don Wilkerson - Shoutin' (7/29/63)
4146: Dexter Gordon - Our Man in Paris (5/23/63)
4147: Herbie Hancock - Inventions and Dimensions (8/30/63)
4148: George Braith - Two Souls in One (9/4/63)
4149: Hank Mobley - No Room for Squares (3/7/63, 10/2/63)
4150: Stanley Turrentine - A Chip Off the Old Block (10/21/63)
至4435，由於篇幅的關係，只列到4150
待续...
參考鏈接：
http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/bluenoteLabel.html
參考資料：
Richard Cook, Blue Note Records: A Biography (London, Secker and Warburg, 2001). (Note: The substance of this list -- including several verbatim sentences -- appears in Cook's book as an appendix, though without acknowledgement.)
Michael Cuscuna and Michel Ruppli, The Blue Note Label: A Discography (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988)
Toyoki Okajima (ed.), The Complete Blue Note Book: Tribute to Alfred Lion (Tokyo: Jazz Critique Special Edition, 1987)
Graham Marsh, Felix Cromey, and Glyn Callingham (edd.), Blue Note: The Album Cover Art (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1991)
注:題頭圖片為1985年6月Toshiba EMI重發的 "Blue Note 4000 Series Original Collection 100" 部分之一
