American Blue Note

AMERICAN BLUE NOTE, directed by Ralph Toporoff and written by Gilbert Girion, is an uneven but often wry and charming American independent, an amiable but loose and rambling series of scenes illustrating the misadventures and tribulations of a fledgling New York City jazz combo.

The promising quintet assembled by sax player Jack Solow (Peter MacNicol) includes pianist Jerry (Carl Capotorto), who lives with his mother Louise (Zohra Lampert) and crazy grandfather (Maury Cooper); drummer Bobby (Tim Guinee); bassist Lee (Bill Christopher-Myers); and trumpeter Tommy (Jonathan Walker), who has a wife Sharon (Margaret Devine) and children and yearns to play his own mu...