MO’ BETTER BLUES

×

Expand

Kravis Center For The Performing Arts

Kravis Center For The Performing Arts

1990, 127 min, USA. Directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes.

In his fourth feature film and first collaboration with Denzel Washington. legendary filmmaker Spike Lee studies the work of making jazz music: rehearsals, composing, management, finances, club owners, and audiences. Washington spent several months studying the fundamentals of playing the trumpet with none other than Grammy winner Terence Blanchard, who performed Washington’s solos on the film’s soundtrack and went on to score 13 of Lee’s features. Bleek, as played by Washington, is an intense, charismatic, and flawed character, committed only to the music. Lee looks at the warped treatment of women in the jazz world through the characters of Indigo Downes (Joie Lee) and Clarke Betancourt (Cynda Williams).