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2018

It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

Directed by Eric Friedler

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.

Duration

1h 55m

Released

July 2, 2018

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Cast14

  • Alfred Lion
  • Herbie Hancock
  • Quincy Jones
  • Wayne Shorter
  • Thelonious Monk
  • George Benson
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Ron Carter
  • Horace Silver

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