PARIS BLUES
When two Paris nightclub jazz players meet two vacationing American beauties, their passion for music is suddenly challenged by their desire for love. The perfect film to follow our Jazz Musicians on Film talk.
Despite being far from home, American jazz musicians Ram Bowen (Paul Newman) and Eddie Cook (Sidney Poitier) are content living and working in Paris. Ram knows it's the best place for him to develop his musical reputation, and Eddie is far away from the racism that once greeted him on a regular basis.
But after meeting and falling in love with American tourists Lillian (Joanne Woodward) and Connie (Diahann Carroll), the pair must decide whether their artistic integrity is worth abandoning. With a superb cast (Joanne Woodward is marvellous), on location shooting in Paris and Oscar-nominated jazz music from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, this offbeat musical affair is one of the most delightful jazz movies ever made… and often criminally forgotten.