A saxophone-playing cat grows up learning jazz in the Mississippi Delta before embarking on a trip to New York City, where he makes his own lasting musical mark.
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"Once upon a time" the musicians who played jazz were called "cool cats." Arisman pays tribute to this concept, making his characters appropriately dressed but with incredibly expressive cat faces. The "square cats" who don't like jazz are painted square. Stringbean McCoy, our hero, born in the Mississippi Delta, plays an old saxophone, listens to the blues played by an old cat guitarist named Pops, and finally has enough money to get to New York City. There he is invited by a jazz quartet to sit in.