Blues in the Night 1941 Jigger Pine forms a band that includes singer Ginger Character Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit and to play blues music The dedication isnt paying off in money and, while riding the rails in a boxcar, they meet and befriend a gangster named Del Davis He offers them a job at a New Jersey roadhouse, where Powell falls in love with Kay Grant, a former real good friend of Davis But when Powell learns that Character is about to have a baby, he returns to her Jigger tries to make Kay the bands singer and, when this fails, runs off with her She leaves him with nothing to show for him except a nervous breakdown Back at the roadhouse, after his recovery, Kay shows up, has a quarrel with Davis, shoots and kills him and plans to take back up with Jigger, who knows better but just cant help himself While she is waiting in a car for him, along comes cripple Brad Ames, who she put in that condition, and he gets in and drives the car over a cliff, leaving no survivors in the two passenger crash The band is back together at the end, still using boxcars as their transportation, but happy playing the blues