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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

July 2, 2018

Original language

German

Spoken languages

English, German

Countries

Germany

Production

NDR,Road Movies

Cast

Alfred Lion,Herbie Hancock,Quincy Jones,Wayne Shorter,Thelonious Monk,George Benson,Sonny Rollins,Ron Carter,Horace Silver,Lou Donaldsonand 4 more

Director

Eric Friedler

Writer

Eric Friedler

Producer

Wim Wenders

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt8661880