Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz (1997)

7.2/10 • 113 min • Documentary Music

Overview

"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

Herbie Hancock

Carlos Santana

Johnny Griffin

Bertrand Tavernier

Ron Carter

Self

Brigitte Mira

Self

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