MPS - The legend lives on
2023•9.0•Released
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.
Director
Sascha Schmidt
Languages
German, English
Studio
Zentralfilm Filmproduktion
Cast
Jasper van't Hof
Self
Charly Antolini
Self
Eberhard Weber
Self
Andreas Brunner-Schwer
Self
Rolf Kühn
Self
Gunter Hampel
Self
Marlis Brunner-Schwer
Self
Monty Alexander
Self
Jean-Luc Ponty
Self
Joachim Kühn
Self
Alexander von Schlippenbach
Self
Production
Company
Zentralfilm Filmproduktion
Producer
Micha Bojanowski
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