Tag: jazz

#ReadSoulLit Photo Challenge – Day 10

Bookish Stuff

Day 10 – a Black Book: A black book is like saying the little black dress.  It’s a book that makes an impressive impact visually and for the content between its covers.  I chose Trumpet by Jackie Kay.  I haven’t read this one yet but I’m very familiar with Kay’s beautiful poetry and Red Dust […]

February 10, 2015

Half Blood Blues

Bookish Stuff

It’s 1940 in Paris and a jazz group is trying to survive playing their music and trying to cut a record as the Nazis take Paris.  Its principal characters are Sid, Chip, and Hiero.  Hieronymus Falk is a black German or a “Rhineland bastard” as he and other Afro-Germans were called.  He was the outcome […]

March 7, 2013