Jimmy Giuffre in "The Glass Wall"

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Yesterday, I saw this 1953 Noir-ish drama about a refugee looking for a clarinetist in Times Square to prevent him from being deported, and all of a sudden there's Jimmy Giuffre sitting there playing tenor sax in one club scene.

I checked Meeker, and sure enough, it was Jack Teagarden featured with Shorty Rogers' band (Giuffre, Bob Gordon Jack Montrose, Shelly Manne, Howard Rumsey and Frank Patchen), with Bob Keene ghosting the clarinet solos throughout the movie.

I don't know why they had to have a West Coast band featured in a movie that was shot in NYC, but they played some wild swing arrangements with some good trombone, clarinet and trumpet blowing.