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It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 2, 2018

Runtime

1h 55m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

82%

Original Title

It Must Schwing - Die Blue Note Story

Production Companies

NDR, Road Movies

Director

Eric Friedler

Description

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.