Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

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

Switzerland, USA / 2018 / Colors and Black & Grey / HD, Stéréo / 85’

  • Original version : English.
  • Subtitles : german, french, italian. 
  • Script : Sophie Huber.
  • Screen : Shane Sigler, Patrick Lindenmaier.
  • 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).
  • Filmography : Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction, 2012.