It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story

 

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1h 55m 2018 HD

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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