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Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States and Canada.
- Americans.
- African Americans.
- Music origins.
- Racial integration.
- Record labels.
- Blue Note (UMG).
- Local Subjects:
- United States and Canada.
- Americans.
- African Americans.
- Music origins.
- Racial integration.
- Record labels.
- Blue Note (UMG).
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (91 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 1997.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- The passionate saga of how two German Jews created Blue Note Records. The story begins in the mid-twenties. Alfred Lion is wandering the streets of Berlin when a poster promoting a Chocolate Kiddies show catches his eye. Once inside the theater, he discovers pianist Sam Wooding’s review. It’s the first contact with jazz for the German Jew, who later immigrated to the United States to escape the Nazi party’s rise to power. once in New York, he began to participate in the burgeoning jazz movement by teaming up with writer Max Margulis—who was quickly replaced by photographer Francis Wolff, another German Jew—to create Blue Note Records in 1939. After the label’s first success with Sidney Bechet’s Summertime, they went on to record a good many: Thelonious Monk, Eric Dolphy, Donald Byrd, Dexter Gordon, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis and George Benson, just to name a few. But Blue Note did much more than just accompany the development of modern jazz: the label also widely popularized its image with photos by Francis Wolff and graphics by Reid Miles, both of whom helped attract a new audience. This saga is recounted in Blue Note – A Story of Modern Jazz, a passionate documentary during which testimonials by Herbie Hancock, Max Roach and Johnny Griffin alternate with excerpts from concerts by Sonny Rollins, Bud Powell and John Coltrane. Alfred Lion’s retirement in 1967 and the death of Francis Wolff in 1971 brought the label to an abrupt halt. However, Blue Note has taken on new life today, notably with singer Cassandra Wilson, and this film is a beautiful tribute to its creators. Eric Delhaye
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed July 15, 2024).
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