Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
It must schwing!
October 1, 1997
113 min
✓ Released 10482 days ago
Documentary
Music
7.2
User Score
8 votes
About
"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label that was home to such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins. Blue Note, the most successful movie ever made about jazz, is a testimony to the passion and vision of these two men and certainly swings like the propulsive sounds that made their label so famous.
Movie Info
Status: Released
Director: Julian Benedikt
Runtime: 113 min
Top Cast
Freddie Hubbard
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Gil Mellé
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Herbie Hancock
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Horace Silver
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Carlos Santana
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Johnny Griffin
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Bertrand Tavernier
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Ron Carter
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