Horace Silver

Explore la visión detrás del icónico sello discográfico de jazz estadounidense. Desde 1939, los artistas de Blue Note han sido alentados a ampliar los límites creativos en busca de expresiones intransigentes. A través de sesiones de grabación actuales, archivos raros y conversaciones con artistas icónicos de Blue Note, la película revela una perspectiva íntima de un legado que sigue siendo vital en el clima político actual. Paisajes, ciudades, disputas y abrazos, tranquilidad, ritmo agitado, trabajo, autocontrol -duda, alegría, pasión.

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!" 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.