It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
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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.
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Alfred Lion
Self
Herbie Hancock
Self
Known for
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Miles Ahead
Quincy Jones
Self
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Wayne Shorter
Self
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Thelonious Monk
Self
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Thelonious Monk: Paris 1969
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George Benson
Self
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Sonny Rollins
Self
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Ron Carter
Self
Also in
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Horace Silver
Self
Lou Donaldson
Self
Bennie Maupin
Self
Michael Cuscuna
Self
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Eric Friedler Director
United States release August 31, 2018 · Produced in Germany · Languages English, German
Production
NDR
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Road Movies
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Neue Road Movies
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Norddeutscher Rundfunk
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Germany
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Original title
It Must Schwing - Die Blue Note Story
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
English · German
Release dates
Germany · July 2, 2018
Premiere · (Munich International Film Festival)
United States · August 31, 2018
Premiere · (Telluride Film Festival)
Poland
October 12, 2018 · Premiere · (Warsaw Film Festival)
Sweden
September 14, 2019 · Premiere · (TV premiere)
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