Blue Note Records documentary ‘Beyond the Notes’: 7 things we learned
premieres on June 14th and 28th, respectively, and national screenings and a DVD release later this year, here are seven things we learned from the film.In an archival audio interview early in the film, we hear the label’s two co-founders, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, discussing their respective jazz epiphanies, which happened in Berlin around the mid-Twenties. “My recollection is that I liked the music tremendously, but I didn’t understand it,” Wolff says.
A statement by Lion clarifies the label’s art-before-commerce ethos. “Any record we ever made, we were never really figuring on a hit,” he says. “If later on the thing became successful, it just happened to become successful, but we didn’t make the record with that intention, to make a hit.”After a period focused on Dixieland and swing, Lion and Wolff turned their attention to bebop.
According to Donaldson, “Without Blue Note, you probably would have never heard of Monk. Because the other companies, like Columbia [Monk’s later label] and Capitol, they wouldn’t record him… But Alfred did.” “If you played, and Frank was dancing, that was the take,” Hancock explains. “If he wasn’t dancing, that was not the take.”
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