Jul 14, 2017
Americans in Paris: Jazz Expats in France
July 14 is Bastille Day in France: a day when, even on American shores, a French neighbor of mine, an eminent trumpeter, would fly the French Tricolour in front of his house and blow the La Marseilleise, the French national anthem, with panache. With the approach of this year's Bastille Day, David Brent Johnson tipped me to his July 2007 edition of Night Lights, devoted to the work of African American musicians like Sidney Bechet, Lucky Thompson, Don Byas, Bill Coleman, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke, and Dexter Gordon, who all sought better personal and musical lives in France following World War II.
-Nick Moy
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