Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
"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.
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Freddie Hubbard
Gil Mellé
Herbie Hancock
Horace Silver
Carlos Santana
Johnny Griffin
Bertrand Tavernier
Ron Carter
Maurice Cullaz
Ruth Lion
Hans Borgelt
Taj Mahal
Joe Chambers
Bobby Hutcherson
Bob Cranshaw
J.J. Johnson
Brigitte Mira
Konrad Kellen
Lorraine Gordon
Herman Haarmann
Bob Belden
Tommy Turrentine
William Claxton
