Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz (1997)

Name: Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 2020-06-28
Duration: 1 hr 53 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Freddie Hubbard, Gil Mellé, Herbie Hancock, Horace Silver, Carlos Santana

Movie"It must schwing!"

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NR 1 hr 53 minOct 1st, 1997Documentary, Music

"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.

StarringFreddie HubbardGil MelléHerbie Hancock

DirectorsJulian BenediktAndreas Morell

WriterAndreas Morell

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