This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington) of a train porter who is frequently absent from home. Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Zaz-zuh-zaz" and "The Lady with the Fan" at the Cotton Club in Harlem.

Black and Tan (1929) is a short film directed and written by Dudley Murphy, and featuring Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, originally released by RKO on 8 December 1929.
The film includes Ellington and his orchestra playing his Black and Tan Fantasy, Black Beauty, and The Duke Steps Out.
On 13 February 2001, Black and Tan was reissued by Kino Video in the DVD collection Hollywood Rhythm Vol. 1.