Black and Tan

Directed by Dudley Murphy

With Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, Wellman Braud, Joe 'Tricky Sam' Nanton and Edgar Connor

Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington, from working with heart trouble even though it means work for his band. Sure enough, she collapses on stage...