Sweet And Lowdown Page #7

standing in front of Emmet...

is Django Reinhardt.

I believe later that year...

Emmet turned up in New Jersey...

and made that recording he did

of one of his own compositions.

"Unfaithful Woman."

Very good, everybody.

- Particularly me.

- That was great. And me.

- Let's go get somethin' to eat.

- Emmet, we're going to New York.

We're goin' to New York.

The big money.

Can I get those cigarettes?

Em, I tell you, the music business

really picked up, just like you said.

We got some dancers lined up for

tonight, pretty ones. They are wild.

How are you?

You look healthy.

I'm in town makin' a record.

I wrote a beautiful tune.

It's a classic.

I'm sorry I cut out

on you like that.

It was time to move on.

I was fair. I told you

not to fall in love with me.

It's nothin' personal.

It's just, I'm an artist.

I like women,

but they gotta have their place.

You angry with me?

You have every right to be.

I don't hold it against you.

I even thought of you

a couple of times.

My wife said...

I said your name once

in my sleep.

Must have had a nightmare

or somethin'.

Yeah.

I had a wife. She's gone now,

and believe me, I don't miss her.

I don't mean to say

I miss you either...

but I didn't have

any bad feelings about you.

We got a real good contract at a club

in New York for a year. Good dough.

Maybe you'd like to come.

You know?

I'm not makin' any promises, but...

I think you might have fun.

You'd be in New York with...

one of the two best

guitar players in the world...

six best poker players.

Not countin' that.

We leave tomorrow, if you want.

If you don't, I understand.

You know? Then it'd be

"It was nice seeing you again.

Good luck."

I never could

get your handwritin'.

Happily?

Got kids?

Boy or girl?

Boy?

Girl?

It's just as well.

I wouldn't want to give you the wrong

impression. You'd get attached to me.

And you know me.

I can't take entanglements.

I gotta go. We're gonna take

some chorus girls out tonight.

And I'm leavin' tomorrow.

Take it easy.

I'm the greatest solo instrumentalist

on the guitar you'll ever hear.

Oh, yeah?

The public's just getting to know my

name. Next year, I'll be in the money.

You're a real looker.

You are a real looker.

- You're not that bad yourself.

- I mean it!

Maybe that's why the men give me

a lot of tips when I dance.

You wanna go watch trains?

What?

- Come on.

- Trains?

Wait. Where are we going?

- Jesus.

- Outta the way.

Grab my stuff. Jesus.

- Where are we going?

- My cigarettes!

Where do you think

you're taking me?

Where's my cigarettes?

Leave them alone.

Let's just go.

Come on.

Let's go watch trains.

You almost lost me there, you know.

Did you see that?

Jesus. What are we doing here?

I like to sit out...

and look at the trains pass.

Yeah. To each his own, I say.

I mean, I don't understand it.

I can make my guitar

sound like a train.

God! I mean, I'm a nice girl.

I don't understand

why you'd bring me here.

I can make my guitar

sound just like a train.

I got a warm room we can go to.

Come on. I'll take care of you.

Come on. It's nice.

Jesus, I don't understand why you would

bring a nice girl like me out here.

I'm takin' requests.

Do you know "Sweet Sue"?

All right, are you finished?

Can we go now?

I really have to pee, you know.

I gotta go to the bathroom.

- What's the matter with you?

- Go on.

- What?

- Get outta here.

What? What are you talk...

- You dragged me out here.

- Just leave me alone.

- What?

- Leave me alone!

I don't need anybody!

- I made a mistake!

- Yeah. I'll say.

I made mistake!

I have no idea

what happened to Emmet Ray.

He just sort of disappeared,

I guess.

He did make, though,

in those last couple of years...

he made really

his best recordings.

He never played more beautifully,

more movingly.

Something just seemed

to kind of open up in him.

It was amazing,

because he was, finally...

every bit as good

as Django Reinhardt.

And then he just, you know,

seemed to fade away.

I mean, I have no idea.

Some people said

he went to Europe.

And some people feel that he may

have stopped playing altogether.

But we do have, fortunately,

those last recordings he made.

And they're great.

They're absolutely beautiful.

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