It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

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

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Alfred Lion

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Herbie Hancock

Self

Quincy Jones

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Wayne Shorter

Self

Thelonious Monk

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George Benson

Self

Sonny Rollins

Self

Ron Carter

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Horace Silver

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Lou Donaldson

Self

Bennie Maupin

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Michael Cuscuna

Self