Movie

Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz

★ 7.2/10 · 8 votes 1997 1h 53m Released

DocumentaryMusic

"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

F Freddie Hubbard Self G Gil Mellé Self Herbie Hancock Self H Horace Silver Self Carlos Santana Self Johnny Griffin Self