It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on
the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a
sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the
Lower East Side.
He catches the attention of the mobsters who
run the district and soon there are eyes on his back and men in the
shadows. It is time to leave, for another America... Chicago is wild
and new, and newest of all is the music.
Furious, wild, happy
music played by a man with a trumpet and bleeding lips called Louis
Armstrong. His music is everywhere, coming from every open door, every
phonograph. But Armstrong is a prisoner of his colour; there are places a
black man cannot go, things he cannot do.
Armstrong needs a man, a white man, and the man he chooses is Henry Smart.
Oh, Play That Thing - Roddy Doyle
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