It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

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Overview

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.

Cast: Alfred Lion, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, more

Director: Eric Friedler

Genres: Documentary

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Alfred Lion

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Herbie Hancock

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Quincy Jones

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Wayne Shorter

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Thelonious Monk

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George Benson

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Sonny Rollins

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Ron Carter

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Horace Silver

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Lou Donaldson

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Bennie Maupin

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Michael Cuscuna

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Sheila Jordan

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Benny Golson

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