Note Bleu: Best of the Blue Note Years 1998–2005 is a 2006 “best of" compilation from avant-jazz-funk organ trio Medeski Martin & Wood, featuring selected songs from all of the band's albums released on Blue Note Records. (The band has since started an independent label, Indirecto Records.)
Note Bleu was also released in a Deluxe Edition, featuring 3 bonus tracks and a Bonus DVD.
Track listing "The Dropper" – 3:32 "Sugar Craft" – 3:19 "I Wanna Ride You" – 3:25 "Nocturne" – 4:02 "Partido Alto" – 5:44 "Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho" (Billy Martin remix) – 3:56 "Note Bleu" – 3:02 "Pappy Check" – 2:43 "Mami Gato" – 4:08 "Off the Table" – 4:16 "Queen Bee" – 4:55 "Hypnotized" – 5:03 "Hey Joe" – 5:01 "End of the World Party" – 5:09 "Uninvisible" – 3:37
Deluxe Edition CD: "Whiney Bitches" – 3:04 "The Builder" (from The Dropper Japanese version) – 3:28 "Toy Dancing" – 6:35
Bonus DVD The Deluxe Edition Bonus DVD includes the following:
Music Videos: "Partido Alto" - Directed by: Adam Bork "The Dropper" - Directed by: Adam Bork "Uninvisible" - Directed by: Bill Gilman
Live Performances: Texaco Jazz Festival - "Sugar Craft" > "Ankhnaton" (Sun Ra) - with DJ Logic - 13:14 The performance took place on June 8, 1998 at the Texaco Jazz Festival, New York, NY Produced, Directed and Edited by: Chuck Fishbein for Crazy Duck Productions NewPort JVC Jazz Festival - "New Planet" and "Queen Bee" - 12:16 The performance took place on August 13, 2005 at the JVC Jazz Festival, Newport, RI Produced by JVC and Festival Productions, Inc.
Documentaries: Foreplay (2004) - Directed by: Libby Spears & Sarah Flack / Bluprint Films - 9:50 Medeski Martin & Wood's "The Dropper" (2002) - Directed by: Marie-Pierre Jaury / Mezzo/Point Du Jour - 30:00
Performers John Medeski – keyboards Billy Martin – drums, percussion Chris Wood – basses
References Note Bleu Album Information at MMW.net mmwhistory.com - List of all known performances by MMW
External links In-depth Note Bleu Review at Popmatters.com