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FROM: "Lucy Lockley" <[removed]@mail.win.org>
REC'D: 1/20/00, 1:35 PM

To all you marvelous folk out on Fiction-L:

I have a co-worker trying to find the title (& author) of a supposedly
recent (maybe within the last 6 months) book in which the main character is
a Black musician; possibly a jazz musician (not sure about the jazz part).
The time period is World War II and the musician stays out of the
concentration camps because he(?) is such a "good" musician.

Ring any bells with anyone? I know it's not much to go on but it's all we
have. Thanks (very much) in advance.


Lucy M. Lockley, Reference Librarian
Collection Development Coordinator
St. Charles City-County Library District
McClay Branch Library
St. Charles, MO
636/441.6454 FAX: 636/441.5898
e-mail: [removed]@mail.win.org
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FROM: <[removed]@aol.com>
REC'D: 1/20/00, 2:16 PM

I don't have the answer to your question, but I just want to applaud you for
the descriptive and meaningful subject heading you used on your message!!
Bravo!!! This leaves no one wondering which "patron request" they might be
replying to (or reading a reply to).

Sherri McCarthy

FROM: "Allan Graham" <[removed]@syndetics.com>
REC'D: 1/20/00, 2:38 PM

Clifford's Blues, by John Williams is about a gay, African American jazz pianist. It's set in Dachau during WWII.

Allan Graham

Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
7521 SW Garden Home Road
Portland, OR 97223
[removed]@syndetics.com
"Bringing Books and Readers Together"

-----Original Message-----
From: Lucy Lockley [[removed]@mail.win.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 11:43 AM
[removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
Subject: Black musician in WWII


To all you marvelous folk out on Fiction-L:

I have a co-worker trying to find the title (& author) of a supposedly
recent (maybe within the last 6 months) book in which the main character is
a Black musician; possibly a jazz musician (not sure about the jazz part).
The time period is World War II and the musician stays out of the
concentration camps because he(?) is such a "good" musician.

Ring any bells with anyone? I know it's not much to go on but it's all we
have. Thanks (very much) in advance.


Lucy M. Lockley, Reference Librarian
Collection Development Coordinator
St. Charles City-County Library District
McClay Branch Library
St. Charles, MO
636/441.6454 FAX: 636/441.5898
e-mail: [removed]@mail.win.org
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[removed]@##########]==========================================================>
\\ | /
\\__/ / Touche!
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FROM: "Kathleen Flatow" <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
REC'D: 1/21/00, 4:11 PM

Although the main character is Hawaiian and not African-American, the book
you are looking for may be Song of the Exile by Kiana Davenport. It was
published in 1999, and the main character is a jazz musician.

Kathleen Flatow
Vernon Area Public Library
Lincolnshire, IL 60069
[removed]@nslsilus.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Lucy Lockley <[removed]@mail.win.org>
To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org <[removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org>
Date: Thursday, January 20, 2000 2:44 PM
Subject: Black musician in WWII


>
>To all you marvelous folk out on Fiction-L:
>
>I have a co-worker trying to find the title (& author) of a supposedly
>recent (maybe within the last 6 months) book in which the main character is
>a Black musician; possibly a jazz musician (not sure about the jazz part).
>The time period is World War II and the musician stays out of the
>concentration camps because he(?) is such a "good" musician.
>
>Ring any bells with anyone? I know it's not much to go on but it's all we
>have. Thanks (very much) in advance.
>
>
>Lucy M. Lockley, Reference Librarian
>Collection Development Coordinator
>St. Charles City-County Library District
>McClay Branch Library
>St. Charles, MO
>636/441.6454 FAX: 636/441.5898
>e-mail: [removed]@mail.win.org
> __
> | \
> | \
>
[removed]@##########]==========================================================>
> \\ | /
> \\__/ / Touche!
> \___ __/

FROM: "Leser, Debbie" <[removed]@rolling-meadows.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/22/00, 8:54 AM

One book with a black musician in WWII is Kiana Davenport's "Song of the
Exile". I don't think it has concentration camps in it, but I haven't read
it yet. It's about a musician who falls in love with a Hawaiian girl, he
goes to Paris and spends the rest of his life looking for her because she
disappeared. She was taken as a comfort girl for the Japanese.
Debbie Leser
Rolling Meadows Library
Rolling Meadows. IL.

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