It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
2018•1h 55m•8.1•Released
Documentary
A documentary about the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records and its German founders Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff. As jews they had to flee Germany and the Hitler regime in the late 1930s. In New York they wrote music history with their record label Blue Note Records.
Director
Eric Friedler
Writer
Eric Friedler
Languages
German, English
Studio
NDR
Cast
Alfred Lion
Self
Herbie Hancock
Self
Quincy Jones
Self
Wayne Shorter
Self
Thelonious Monk
Self
George Benson
Self
Sonny Rollins
Self
Ron Carter
Self
Horace Silver
Self
Lou Donaldson
Self
Bennie Maupin
Self
Michael Cuscuna
Self
Sheila Jordan
Self
Benny Golson
Self
Production
Company
NDR
Company
Road Movies
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