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In his 1997 documentary film Blue Note Records: A Story of Modern Jazz, director Julian Benedikt explores the labels ascendance, beginning with Lion and Wolffs emigration from Nazi Germany to New York City, where their mutual passion for jazz blossomed and prompted them to devote their lives to its proliferation.
Featuring insightful interviews and rare footage of Blue Note luminaries including Art Blakey, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins, among many others, the riveting A Story of Modern Jazz is a profoundly inspired portrait of this most vibrant and vital of American cultural institutions.
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