Film

Doc’n Roll Festival: It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Story

Director
Eric Friedler
Certificate
15
Running Time
115 mins

The story of two chums, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, who founded Blue Note Records, which specialised in American jazz and championed the work of the likes of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter and Thelonious Monk at a time when African-American musicians in the USA were discriminated against and ostracised.

It’s on screen to conclude this year’s Doc’n Roll film festival.

By robin askew, Friday, May 17 2019

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