Immerse yourself in Wayne Shorter's brilliant and eerie 'Masquelero.'Īnecdotes abound, like Herbie Hancock recalling a 'hideous mistake' he made and how Miles Davis, after a momentary pause, ran with it, turning it into a triumph. But it is the music and the camaraderie among artists and between artists and the two Germans they accepted as their own where "Blue Note" really sings and Huber drills down, highlighting seminal works like John Coltrane's 'Blue Rain' and Miles Davis's ' I Waited for You." We learn how the Art Blakey and Horace Silver cemented the 'Blue Note sound' and how Blakey's 'Let Freedom Ring' became an anthem of the Civil Rights Movement. Wolff's 'amateur' photography reveals a true artist, his work used for distinctive album covers.
Early archival footage is presented in rich black and white.
Director Sophie Huber guides us through the amazing history of "Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes."Įven if jazz is not your thing, Huber's rich musical history of its preeminent label is something to sink into. Eighty years after its founding, what he created is now revered as having produced some of the jazz genre's most iconic recordings. Lion returned, almost losing everything when he continued to release the work of Thelonius Monk to a public who didn't get it. When Lion was drafted into the Army, his childhood friend Frank Wolff joined him and ran the company, stamping his own mark on it with his astonishing photography of recording sessions. In the late 1930's Alfred Lion, who had immigrated to America to escape Jewish persecution in Hitler's Germany, created a record label to record the jazz musicians who enthralled him, beginning with the boogie pianist Meade Mux Louis.
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