Too Late Blues (1961) - (Movie Clip) Just Rub My Beard

Too Late Blues (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Can I Have My Sax Back?

Bobby Darin looks comfortable on piano, the director’s pal Seymour Cassel on bass, with Cliff Carnell mimicking alto, benefitting from a recording by Benny Carter, tune by David Raksin, opening John Cassavetes’ first Hollywood feature, which he also co-wrote, Too Late Blues, 1961.

Too Late Blues (1961) -- (Movie Clip) I'm The Girl With No Brain

Unorthodox and intense, as you’d expect from John Cassavetes, writing and directing his first Hollywood feature, Bobby Darin as jazz man “Ghost,” asserting some rectitude at the end of his first evening with singer Jess (Stella Stevens), in Too Late Blues, 1961.