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The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz group, has been forbidden to experiment with by the Nazis. Their young trumpet-player, Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by the one and only Louis Armstrong, is caught in a Paris café. He is never listened to from again. He was 20 years old, a German resident. And he was dark. Berlin, 1952. Falk is a jazz legend. Hot Time Swingers group users Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, both African People in the usa from Baltimore, have came out in a documentary about Falk. When they are invited to attend the film's top, Sid's role in Falk's fate will be questioned and the two old musicians set off on a astonishing and strange trip. From your smoky pubs of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, Sid leads the listener through a remarkable, little-known world as he identifies the friendships, love affairs, and treacheries that resulted in Falk's incarceration in Sachsenhausen. Half-Blood Blues is a tale about music and race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves, and demand of others, in the name of fine art.
