 Denzel Washington (qv) and Wesley Snipes (qv) were trained to  mimic the playing of the instruments they play in the film (trumpet  and saxophone) by musicians Terence Blanchard (qv) and  Donald Harrison (I) (qv). Washington later admitted that he was  lucky if he could play three notes of a simple tune prior to filming  and ended up being able to correctly mimic most of the songs  performed in the film along with Snipes.