The Blue Note Entertainment Group, founded in 1981 with the opening of the Blue Note Jazz Club, is a multi-faceted entertainment company that owns and operates Blue Note Jazz Clubs Worldwide (New York, NY; Milan, Italy; Honolulu, Hawaii; Beijing and Shanghai, China; Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan; Napa, California; and Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil); Sony Hall (New York, NY); and The Howard Theatre (Washington, D.C.). Blue Note produces 40+ shows at Summer Sessions at the Meritage Hotel in Napa and co-produces the Oxbow RiverStage, an annual outdoor summer series in downtown Napa. Blue Note Entertainment Group has stayed true to its history of excellence while giving its audiences a variety of exciting, culturally and artistically rich, top-notch experiences. Subsidiaries of Blue Note Entertainment Group include the GRAMMY®-nominated record label Half Note Records, whose catalog includes over 50 titles recorded live at Blue Note New York; Blue Note Travel; Blue Note Management Group; and Blue Note Media Group.
The Blue Note Jazz Festival
The Blue Note Jazz Festival brand was established in 2011 in New York and has since become the largest jazz festival in New York City. The festival expanded to Napa Valley in 2022, where, true to the essence of the Blue Note brand, it showcases the biggest names in music and culture in an intimate, small-town setting. Jazz's energy and artistic flexibility serve as inspiration for the diverse range of musicians on the annual line-up. Blue Note Jazz Festival on the Web: