Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington, from working with heart trouble even though it means work for his band. Sure enough, she collapses on stage...

• RKO Radio Pictures
• Duke Ellington
• Barney Bigard
• Wellman Braud
• Joe 'Tricky Sam' Nanton
• Edgar Connor
• Alec Lovejoy
• Fredi Washington
• Arthur Whetsol