"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.

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Stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground travel guide to navigate the injusti...

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Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of W...
On November 30, 2017 the National Park Service and National Park Foundation will present the annual ...

During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two America...

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Biopic of Gulshan Kumar, the founder of the Indian music company, T-Series.

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