Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz

IMDb 7.2 1997 • 113 min • DocumentaryMusic

Director

Julian Benedikt

Country

Plot Summary

"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.

Top Cast

Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard Self
Gil Mellé
Gil Mellé Self
Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock Self
Horace Silver
Horace Silver Self
Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana Self