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Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington gives a riveting performance in Spike Lee's breathtaking film on music and love. Talented trumpeter Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington) is obsessed by his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends, Indigo (Joie Lee) and Clarke (Cynda Williams). But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend (Spike Lee), Bleek finds ...
Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington gives a riveting performance in Spike Lee's breathtaking film on music and love. Talented trumpeter Bleek Gilli...
Feb 21, 2022 · The Bleek Quintet perform their jazz hit, "Mo' Better Blues". Watch this classic scene in the Spike Lee directed musical drama, Mo' Better Blues, featuring D...
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Mo' Better Blues. A talented and self-centered jazz trumpeter slowly discovers the emptiness of his life in director Spike Lee's winning, sexually frank romantic drama. 1,283 IMDb 6.7 2 h 9 min 1990. X-Ray R. Romance · Drama · Understated · Cerebral. Available to rent or buy.
Brooklyn, New York 1969. A group of four boys walk up to Bleek Gilliam (Zakee L. Howze)'s brownstone rowhouse and ask him to come out and play baseball with them. Bleek's mother insists that he continue his trumpet lesson, to his chagrin. His father becomes concerned that Bleek will grow up to be a sissy, and a family argument ensues.
Mo' Better Blues: Directed by Spike Lee. With Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Giancarlo Esposito. Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.
Music From "Mo' Better Blues" is a collaborative album by Branford Marsalis Quartet and Terence Blanchard. It was released in 1990 through Columbia / CBS Records as a soundtrack to Spike Lee 's 1990 film Mo' Better Blues. Recording sessions took place at RCA Studios and Sound On Sound in New York. Production was handled by Bill Lee, Delfeayo ...
