Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
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- Don Was
- Wayne Shorter
- Kendrick Lamar
- Norah Jones
- Derrick Hodge
- Herbie Hancock
- Ali Shaheed Muhammad
- Ambrose Akinmusire
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One of the charms of “Blue Note” is the stories the artists tell about each other.
It will probably get the job done for casual jazz fans — after all, it features clips of some of the most incredible, enchanting and inspiring recordings ever made. Those already familiar with the genre may be disappointed to discover that it mostly sticks with the notes they know and very seldom ventures beyond.
As standard a documentary as it is in presentation, Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes is cleverly assembled and edited, making the most of available archival material to flesh out the stories of Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Art Blakey, Horace Silver et al, and of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, the two German-Jewish immigrants who escaped the war and redefined America’s music culture.