JazzJoe Trace in his fifties, door to door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband shoots dead his eighteen year old lover. At the funeral, his determined, hard working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse. Passionate and profound, Jazz brings us back and forth in time, in a narrative assembled from the hopes, fears and realities of black urban life. 'Jazz blazes with an intensity more