Mo’ Better Blues

Contemporary jazz musician Bleek Gilliam tries to balance his love life and career., Cool jazz drama from Spike Lee . Band leader Bleek Gilliam plays the horn like a dream but playing two women is a nightmare that creates friction with his ambitious sax player Shadow. Branford Marsalis provides the score., Spike Lee’s drama about a jazz musician who forms a professional rivalry with an outspoken saxophonist, while at the same time encountering problems in his love life., This ode to jazz focuses on Bleek Gilliam, a self-absorbed, contemporary trumpet player whose blind devotion to his own talent causes rifts in his professional and personal lives., Trumpeter Bleek Gilliam has many problems: his jazz quintet is troubled by internal rivalry, his manager and friend is deeply in debt to a bookie, and he is torn between two women. Spike Lee’s colorful, jazz-fueled drama follows Bleek’s attempts to juggle his friends, lovers, and, most importantly, his music., Cool jazz drama from Spike Lee. Band leader Bleek Gilliam plays the horn like a dream but playing two women is a nightmare that creates friction with his ambitious sax player Shadow. Branford Marsalis provides the score.