
Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
Film1997113 min7.2/10 on TMDB
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Directed by Julian Benedikt, Andreas Morell
It must schwing!
The story
"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.
Cast & crew
Herbie HancockSelf
Carlos SantanaSelf
Johnny GriffinSelf
Ron CarterSelfRuth Lion
Ruth LionSelf - Alfred's wifeHans Borgelt
Hans BorgeltSelf - HistorianExplore the crew
- Director
- Julian Benedikt
- Director
- Andreas Morell
- Writer
- Andreas Morell
- Producer
- Michael Krause
- Producer
- Ulli Pfau
- Director of Photography
- William Rexer
- Director of Photography
- Georg Steinweh
- Editor
- Andrew Hulme

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