MPS - The legend lives on

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MPS - The legend lives on (2023)

Directed by Sascha Schmidt

Documentary

The music label MPS (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald) from Villingen is known worldwide to fans, musicians and lovers of jazz. Legends such as Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, Friedrich Gulda, Monty Alexander, George Duke, Freddie Hubbard, Jean-Luc Ponty or the Singers Unlimited traveled to the small Black Forest town from the mid-1960s onwards to take in the entrepreneur's son Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer. Around 500 albums were released on MPS, many of which are long-established classics. Thus, for two decades Villingen became a jazz mecca, which stars Jean Luc Ponty, Jasper van't Hof, Monty Alexander, Rolf and Joachim Kühn or Gunter Hampel, as well as Charly Antolini, Daniel Humair, Alexander von Schlippenbach and Eberhard Weber still rave about today. The documentary takes viewers on a fascinating journey into the 60s and 70s and tells one of the most incredible chapters in jazz history, which originated in southwestern Germany.

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Cast

Jasper van't Hof Self
C
Charly Antolini Self
E
Eberhard Weber Self
A
Andreas Brunner-Schwer Self
R
Rolf Kühn Self
G
Gunter Hampel Self
M
Marlis Brunner-Schwer Self
M
Monty Alexander Self Jean-Luc Ponty Self
J
Joachim Kühn Self
A
Alexander von Schlippenbach Self

Crew

Director
Sascha Schmidt
Editor
Manuel Sanchez
Producer
Micha Bojanowski

Details

Original title
MPS - Die Legende lebt
Release date
2023-09-09
Genres
Documentary
Original language
DE
Spoken languages
German, English
Countries
Germany
Production
Zentralfilm Filmproduktion