Horace Silver

"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label that was home to such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins. Blue Note, the most successful movie ever made about jazz, is a testimony to the passion and vision of these two men and certainly swings like the propulsive sounds that made their label so famous.

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.

Blue Note Records, l'un des labels les plus importants de l'histoire du jazz, a accueilli des artistes révolutionnaires tels que Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Bud Powell et Art Blakey. Fondé à New York en 1939 par Alfred Lion et Francis Wolff, l'histoire de Blue Note Records va au-delà des enregistrements phares, englobant la poursuite de la liberté musicale, le conflit entre l'art et le commerce, l'idée que la musique est une force transformatrice et révolutionnaire.