Birth of the Blues backdrop

Birth of the Blues

1941
6.2 rating
  • Music
  • Romance
PlaySee More

Birth of the Blues

1941
6.2 rating
  • Music
  • Romance

Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.

Play

Cast

Movies

More Like This

Curated movie picks for your next watch.

Movie

Lulu on the Bridge

5.9 rating1998Movie
Movie

Michael Bublé at the BBC

8.5 rating2016Movie
Movie

The Flame of New Orleans

6.5 rating1941Movie
Movie

Lola Montès

6.9 rating1955Movie
Movie

Misty - The Erroll Garner Story

7.5 rating2024Movie
Movie

Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz

7.2 rating1997Movie
Movie

Nora Roberts' Midnight Bayou

5.4 rating2009Movie
Movie

Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench

5.4 rating2010Movie
Movie

Down Beat Bear

6.6 rating1956Movie
Movie

Let's Get Lost

7.1 rating1988Movie
Movie

Young Man with a Horn

6.4 rating1950Movie
Movie

The Gospel according to Jazz - Chapter II

0.0 rating2002Movie
Movie

All Night Long

6.8 rating1962Movie
Movie

Kirk Whalum: The Gospel According to Jazz Chapter III

0.0 rating2010Movie
Movie

Naughty Marietta

5.4 rating1935Movie
Movie

Sita Sings the Blues

6.9 rating2008Movie
Movie

Let's Make Rhythm

7.0 rating1947Movie
Movie

Saxophone Colossus

7.7 rating1998Movie
Movie

'Round Midnight

7.1 rating1986Movie
Phantom
Movie

Phantom

0.0 rating—Movie