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Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz

It must schwing!

7.2 average rating
7.2
German / 113 MIN. / 1997

The Genres

The Synopsis

"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.

The Cast

Freddie HubbardGil MelléHerbie HancockHorace SilverCarlos SantanaJohnny GriffinBertrand TavernierRon CarterMaurice CullazRuth LionHans BorgeltTaj MahalJoe ChambersBobby HutchersonBob CranshawJ.J. JohnsonBrigitte MiraKonrad KellenLorraine GordonHerman HaarmannBob BeldenTommy TurrentineWilliam Claxton

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