It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

Plot

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

Self

Herbie Hancock

Self

Quincy Jones

Self

Wayne Shorter

Self

Thelonious Monk

Self

George Benson

Self

Sonny Rollins

Self

Ron Carter

Self

Horace Silver

Self

Lou Donaldson

Self

Bennie Maupin

Self

Michael Cuscuna

Self

Sheila Jordan

Self

Benny Golson

Self