At the Blue Note the disparate cool congregate in a smoky club scene-the enraptured, the inattentive, the tired feet, the singles and couplings, the ennui of Paris late '50s-early '60s. Is it two stories that should have been one? Many disdained Francis the true fan who tries to save the legendary jazz character, Dale Turner (loosely based on the true story of Bud Powell and Francis Poudras, as well as on Lester Young). Whatever, it's to Tavernier's credit that he cast and let Dexter Gordon play it as he knew it. It's an elongated bebop musical performance matching his fluidly jarring, intimately sensual warm tenor sax playing. If you have time and mood you can savor Gordon's groove in Tavernier's filmed record, to capture his adoration of the music and his condemnation of the racial prejudice and inequalities-stones in the pathways ground into dust by Thelonious Monk's "Round Midnight." --Vicci Wong