Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes, Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

Sophie Huber

Switzerland, USA, HD, Stéréo, 2018, Black and white, 85’

French Premiere

The Blue Note Records label launched the most famous jazz musicians of the 20th century. The film recounts this story and weaves a thread between these artists and the current hip-hop figures. The necessary enumeration embodied by the key players in this adventure is broken, during a recording session, by a man who mostly remains silent, Wayne Shorter, a duettist with Miles Davis and a soloist with Weather Report, who performs Masqualero, an hypothetical pacified idiom between the different communities in the U.S.

Sophie Huber

Technical sheet

  • Original version:
    English.
  • Subtitles:
    german, french, italian. 
  • Script:
    Sophie Huber.
  • Editor:
    Russell Greene.
  • Sound:
    Eric Bautista, Matt Betlej, Julian Howarth.
  • With:
    Ambrose Akinmusire, Lou Donaldson, Robert Glasper, Herbie Hancock.
  • Production:
    Mira Film GmbH (Susanne Guggenber), Isotope Films(Chiemi Karasawa).
  • Distribution:
    Eagle Rock Entertainment (Peter Worsley).