Last Friday's movie: Paris Blues, starring Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as cool jazz dudes in Paris in the early 60s. Joanne Woodward and Diahann Carroll are tourists in for a two-week visit. Louis Armstrong drops by to blow his horn and steal all his scenes as visiting jazz legend Wild Man Moore. Directed by Martin Ritt, who would go on to direct Hud, the Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Norma Rae among others. Paris looks great in black & white. Oh, and the music is by Duke Ellington. It took me a while of googling around to find out who did the playing for Newman and Poitier. Newman's trombone was played by Murray MacEachern (who also did the trombone playing for Jimmy Stewart in the Glenn Miller Story) and Poitier's sax was played by Paul Gonsalves, from the Ellington band.
Wonderful movie and highly recommended.