It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

115 mins | Documentary | July 2, 2018

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.

It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

115 mins | Documentary | July 2, 2018

It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
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.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers Neue Road Movies, NDR
Original title It Must Schwing - Die Blue Note Story
Directors Eric Friedler
Writers Eric Friedler

Cast

Alfred Lion

as Self

Herbie Hancock

as Self

Quincy Jones

as Self

Wayne Shorter

as Self

Thelonious Monk

as Self

George Benson

as Self

Sonny Rollins

as Self

Ron Carter

as Self

Horace Silver

as Self

Lou Donaldson

as Self

Bennie Maupin

as Self

Michael Cuscuna

as Self

Sheila Jordan

as Self

Benny Golson

as Self