My Better Blues - DVD - Film X Edition

DVD Film - Denzel Washington and directed by Spike Lee. As a young child, Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington) has to practice the trumpet very hard. When he grows up, he starts his own blues band, the Bleek Gilliam Quartet, at the Beneath Underground Club. He is joined in the band by fellow saxophonist Shadow Henderson (Wesley Snipes), but he takes most of the solos. The story of Bleek and Shadow's friendly bickering begins to unfold, which starts to grow into a professional relationship. Bleek also has to deal with other problems when two girls fall in love with him at the same time and he has to decide which one to reject. When criminals get involved in all of this because of gambling, the band is about to break up.