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Who better to learn about the history of jazz from than everyone's favorite adventurer, Indiana Jones? In this made-for-TV movie, aging Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) looks back at his days as a college student in Chicago during the 1920s. Needing money, young Indy (Sean Patrick Flanery) lands a job at a speakeasy, where he learns about a new and exciting form of music from a trumpet player named Sidney Bechet (Jeffrey Wright) and his friends Louis Armstrong (Byron Stripling) and King Oliver (Keith David). Things get a lot more dangerous for Indy when makes the acquaintance of mobster Al Capone (Nicholas Turturro) and finds himself heading a murder investigation with the help of his college roommate Elliot Ness (Fred Weller) and a newspaper reporter named Ernest Hemingway (Jay Underwood). Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues was produced as part of the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.