![]() ![]() There, the rivalry between Sam and Hiero turns bitter. They flee to Paris, only to have the Nazis follow them. ![]() This rivalry intensifies as the band members finds themselves outcasts when the Nazis take action against Jews, blacks and jazz musicians, affecting them all. Hiero and Sam are rivals for the attentions of singer Delilah, who is a confidante of Armstrong's. They hook up with a Jewish pianist and a couple of Aryan Germans, as well as Hiero, the trumpet genius. The jazz scene in Weimar Berlin sought out black American players and gives them great opportunity. The narrator is Sam, the bass player, who comes from Baltimore with Chip the drummer. The story cuts between the war years in Berlin and Paris, and 1992, when the central characters have grown old. Shortly afterwards one of them, a black German considered the next Louis Armstrong, is captured by the Nazis. The story kicks off with a group of jazz musicians cutting a record in wartime Paris. ![]() Half Blood Blues is a little like a cross between Christopher Isherwood's Berlin stories and Suite Francaise. ![]()
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