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Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz

Deutschland 1996/1997 Dokumentarfilm

Blue Note - A Story Of Modern Jazz

The story of Blue Note Records is the story of Alfred Lion and Frank Wolff, two German Jews from Berlin, who emigrated to New York in 1939 and made a profession out of their love for black music. Like the USA′s oppressed minority of the black population, the two find a second home in this music.

 

From Thelonious Monk to Art Blakey, Bud Powell, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, through to Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor: Unlike any other record label, Blue Note drew our attention over several decades to a number of the most important jazz musicians and set unsurpassed standards. Blue Note was the first record company to understand that there was a link between the look of a record and the music featured on it. Consequently, Blue Note records not only influenced musicians but also designers, filmmakers, actors and even sportsmen. The film covers music history from the company′s beginnings in boogie woogie through swing, bebop, hardbop, modern jazz and avantgarde to the present day. At the same time, the film looks at the fascinating combination of European heritage with the purest form of American culture - jazz.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

Credits

Director

  • Julian Benedikt

Screenplay

  • Julian Benedikt

Director of photography

  • William Rexer II
  • Georg Steinweh (Stuttgart)

Editing

  • Andrew Hulme

Cast

  • Tibor Datenburg
    Alfred Lion

Production company

  • Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) (Stuttgart)
  • EuroArts Entertainment Filmproduktions GmbH (Berlin)
  • Arte G.E.I.E. (Straßburg)

Producer

  • Ulli Pfau
  • Bernd Hellthaler

Alle Credits

Director

  • Julian Benedikt

2nd Unit director

  • Andreas Morell (Regie der Konzertaufnahmen in Stuttgart)

Assistant director

  • Winfried Härtl

Screenplay

  • Julian Benedikt

German dialogue

  • Eva Riekert (Deutsche Texte (TV-Fassung))

Interviews

  • Julian Benedikt

Director of photography

  • William Rexer II
  • Georg Steinweh (Stuttgart)

Assistant camera

  • Philippe Auliac
  • Torsten Heuer
  • Lutz Reitemeier

Optical effects camera

  • Gary Becker

Production design

  • Stefan Schaaf (Licht- und Bühnendesign (Stuttgart))
  • Heinz Baumann (Licht- und Bühnendesign (Stuttgart))
  • Michael Gööck (Licht- und Bühnendesign (Stuttgart))

Editing

  • Andrew Hulme

Assistant editor

  • Peter Pfanner

Video editing

  • Jochen Lusch

Sound

  • Erich Ebert (Stuttgart)
  • Brian Miksis

Sound assistant

  • Erich Ebert
  • Stéphane Thiébaut
  • Roland Hafner

Audio mixing

  • Stephen Breitling

Cast

  • Tibor Datenburg
    Alfred Lion

Participation

  • Jay Jay Johnson
  • Cassandra Wilson
  • Bertrand Tavernier
  • DJ Smasch
  • Carlos Santana
  • Max Roach
  • André Previn
  • Brigitte Mira
  • Art Blakey
  • Ruth Lion
  • Herbie Hancock
  • Johnny Griffin
  • Ira Gitler
  • Rudy Van Gelder
  • William Claxton
  • Ron Carter
  • Joachim Ernst Berendt
  • Kareem Abdul Jabbar
  • Marion McClinton
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Bud Powell
  • Horace Silver
  • Jimmy Smith
  • Dexter Gordon
  • Lorraine Gordon
  • Taj Mahal

Voice

  • Jutta Villinger
    TV-Fassung
  • David Michael Jackson
    TV-Fassung
  • Stephan Korves
    TV-Fassung
  • Burkhart Siedhoff
    TV-Fassung

Production company

  • Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) (Stuttgart)
  • EuroArts Entertainment Filmproduktions GmbH (Berlin)
  • Arte G.E.I.E. (Straßburg)

in association with

  • EMI Toshiba
  • EMI Blue Note (New York)
  • Danmarks Radio (DR) (Kopenhagen)

Producer

  • Ulli Pfau
  • Bernd Hellthaler

Producer (TV)

  • Gerhard Konzelmannn

Unit production manager

  • Martin Endert (Stuttgart)
  • Günther Zorn
  • Peter Kuczinski

Location manager

  • Sherry Simpson Dean
  • Julia Pimskur
  • Michael Krause

Original distributor

  • Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH (Berlin)

Funding

  • MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg mbH (Stuttgart)
  • Lufthansa AG (DE)
  • Aktionsplan 16:9 der EU

Shoot

    • 1996: New York, Stuttgart (Jazz Open Festival), Studiogelände Potsdam-Babelsberg, Berlin (Metropol T
Duration:
114 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Farbe + s/w, Dolby
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE FR): 1997, Arte

Titles

Additional titles
  • TV-Titel Blue Note. Eine Geschichte des Modernen Jazz
  • Originaltitel (DE) Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz

Versions

Original

Duration:
114 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Farbe + s/w, Dolby
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE FR): 1997, Arte

Prüffassung

Duration:
2556 m, 93 min
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 23.02.1998, 79237, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei

Awards

Peabody Awards 1997
  • Peabody Award
Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/blue-note-a-story-of-modern-jazz_ee07ac822684bc4ae03053d50b3715a6