To be young and in love in Paris! I’ll start by saying that I love French culture and language, so I really enjoyed the beautiful, detailed Parisan descriptions, which were an instant trip to the city-of-light without leaving my seat. The second layer or dimension of this book is how it's kind of a coming of age story about Julie, young and naive, learning to come to terms with her changing feelings, her changing body, and her changing world. We're with Julie from the age of 17—right at the cusp of becoming a full-fledged woman—and we journey with her into the middle of adulthood in which she becomes more mature, self-confident, and independent. We also see her journey as a musician, going from a hobbyist to someone who can be invited to perform at concerts. Yeh,” broke in Louis, “but that old Sultana wouldn’t let me in, even when I tol’ him none of them ladies had anything Lucille hadn’t got – but better!”

The story is nothing too deep. Two musicians, one coloured, one white, meet up with two girls in Paris, and what one would expect to ensue obligingly ensues. The drug problem rears its ugly head; Paul Newman (Ram Bowen, a trombonist) writes a jazz concerto; but it all manages to end fairly happily. Louis plays the part of a visiting American jazz celebrity (Wild Man Moore), complete with his own band – not the All Stars – and mugs his way through his part with his usual infectious, gay abandon. This is not merely a movie about race, jazz, drug use, love affairs, Parisian scenery, etc. It's a movie about all the aforementioned and then some. Ritt & Co. go deeper than just superficially touching on so-called hip, trendy issues. Each character portrayed has his/her own set of "blues" to contend with and no individual set of "blues" is merely confined to one sole issue, but rather a complex mixture of many factors that comprise each of our character's makeup. It is in the intertwining of each character's individual persona with the other characters' own traits and idiosyncrasies that lets the story unfold and take cohesive shape. Successes and failures are inextricably linked, as in Ram's (Newman) fame as a jazz soloist counterpointed with his rejection as a serious composer/arranger. Eddie (Poitier) also has his own set of personal conflicts that are duly explored here.The hexadecimal color code #3b558f is a medium dark shade of blue. In the RGB color model #3b558f is comprised of 23.14% red, 33.33% green and 56.08% blue. In the HSL color space #3b558f has a hue of 221° (degrees), 42% saturation and 40% lightness. This color has an approximate wavelength of 472.79 nm. First loves only happen once a lifetime, and as such are memorable, for better or worse. In that vein, what could be a more memorable, or magical, experience than finding that love in Paris, a city well known for its romance? For Julie, a 20-year-old music student from a small town in Main, that’s exactly what happened. Furthering her musical talents, and trying to broaden her horizons in a city full of culture, Julie meets Luc, an older man who shares her passionate love of music and art. As the story so often goes, from that moment on, her life was never the same. An antagonistic lover in Julie Scolnik's "Paris Blue" would like to similarly prefer to exist only in the letters he writes. Adopting an attitude suggested (although perhaps not "intended") by Derrida's famous pun, "il n’y a pas de hors-texte", the man courting the protagonist wants her to believe the text and ignore everything outside it. Blind to the subtle colors of this City of Lights, he wants her to see what he can never make her hear. The story would end there. Close the book. Happy End. But, little by little, troubling things about Luc give us warning signs. Fairly early on, we, the reader, want to tell Julie, “Stop!” “Say no!” “This is not going to end well!” Some of the musicians' great but little known work is recorded in these movies. But underlying the beautiful work, this story is one of political exile as well as cultural refuge. For a moment Paris became a jazz capital of the world as well as the free-thinking centre of Europe - a rebuke to prejudice in America, even as it had growing racial tensions of its own.

On his way to see Wild Man Moore at the train station, Ram Bowen, a jazz musician living in Paris, encounters a newly arrived tourist named Connie Lampson and invites her to see him perform that night at Club 33. Connie is not interested, but her friend Lillian insists they go see him. After Ram finishes performing with Eddie, a fellow American expatriate, the four of them leave the club in the early morning. When Ram suggests that he and Connie go off to have a private breakfast together, she becomes offended, and Ram is angered at being rejected. However, Lillian, undeterred by Ram's attraction to her friend, convinces him to apologize before pursuing him. The two sleep together while Connie and Eddie continue to walk around Paris.Jazz writer Kevin Legendre explores the encounter between American modern jazz and the French New wave in Paris in the late 1950s and 60s.

In sum: you don’t have to be a jazz buff to thoroughly enjoy Paris Blues, but if you are a fan you’ll think you’ve died and gone to heaven. Paris Blue is an RAL Design color with the number 240 85 15. Different from the Classic list, the RAL Design catalogue specifies colors for interiors. RAL is a well-known color matching system used in several European countries including Germany, France, Italy and the UK. red, 34% green and 37% blue. The CMYK color codes, used in printers, are C:23 M:7 Y:0 K:7. In the HSV/HSB scale, Paris Blue has a hue of 198°, 23% saturation and a brightness value of 93%. The other relationship is more intense (Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were, of course, husband-and-wife offscreen, and this was the fourth time they had appeared together on screen). Newman’s Ram Bowen is both selfish, arrogant and ambitious, with eyes to become a serious composer, and not really prepared to take on Woodward’s Lillian Corning – a divorcee with two children – full time. Throw in a sub-plot about the group’s guitarist Michel “Gypsy” Devigne (Serge Reggiani) – a clear reference to Django Reinhardt – and his heroin addiction, and we’re looking at a fairly rich bouillabaisse, before we even mention the music.Paris Blue is a superbly written memoir by Julie Scolnik about finding unexpected and intense love, in a foreign country. I loved the descriptions of Paris and how the city became such a part of Julie’s story, creating the sense that the love she shared with Luc was literally impossible anywhere else. Scolnik’s wonderful prose perfectly captures the atmosphere and energy of Paris, and the first half of the book reads like a love letter to the city itself. Paris has had more than its fair share of lines written in its honor and this book joins those ranks, painting vivid pictures of bustling streets, quaint cafes, cultured inhabitants, and the serenely bucolic nature that the city still manages to maintain despite all the activity. Julie’s relationship with Luc takes more of a center stage in the latter part of the memoir, as their relationship progresses and then regresses in turns, leaving the reader unsure where the two may eventually land. Throughout the entire impassioned book, Scolnik keeps the tone deeply personal, opening each chapter with an excerpt from one of Luc’s letters, providing hints to events that occur later in their blossoming friendship turned to romance. She never shies away from her feelings or actions, portraying them all as accurately as one can imagine they were at the moment in time. A2, A3 <> Recorded live at a benefit for Norman Mailer's mayoral campaign, Cinematheque 16, West Hollywood, CA, May 31, 1969 This book reminds us of several books that we've read this year: “No Perfect Love” by Dr. Alyson Nerenberg (non-fiction) and “A Major League Love” by Domenic Melillo (fiction). All of these books highlight the twists and turns that life and love can take. Something unique about “Paris Blue” by Julie Scolnik, however, is that it especially highlights the “rose-tinted goggles” of idealism that lovers often have at first, leading to disappointments and shattered expectations. It's about what happens when the perfect love isn't so perfect, and it's also about a woman's journey to self-discovery.

Paris Blues is a film with a sound jazz base, four A-list actors, a top director (Martin Ritt – The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Hud), plus a guest appearance by Louis Armstrong, ubiquitous in films of this type in the 50s and 60s. Arguably the icing on the cake is a score by Duke Ellington. This is how the story unfolds as Julie recalls the first serous love of her life, Luc. She’s twenty, very pretty, and somewhat naive—an American college student in Paris during her year of study abroad. He’s in his late twenties, a former student radical, a legal bureaucrat for the French government. He’s hoping to join a legal firm someday. Both are smart. Both love classical music. She wants to perfect her French. He wants to learn English. When they notice each other during rehearsals of the Chorus of the Orchestra of Paris, this is a dream come true. Paris Blue has the hex code #B7DDED. The equivalent RGB values are (183, 221, 237), which means it is composed of Guests include jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater, film director Bertrand Tavernier, composer Martial Solal, jazz writer Geoff Dyer, historians Kevi Donat and Ginette Vincendeau, bass player Henri Texier and playwright Jake Lamar. The treatment we got during the whole of our tour,” she says, “was wonderful. Everywhere they took to Louis’ music and came in thousands. It was different to last time – they seemed to appreciate the music more. Kinda’ got with it more. Danny Barcelona’s drum solos stopped nearly every show, yet the time before they didn’t take too much notice of the drums. Louis says they’re getting to know the beat. I was relieved they did like the show, as with all those bottles lying around it would have been dangerous if they hadn’t! Oh, they were Pepsi bottles – they must have drunk millions of gallons. You see the only entrance fee charged was a top from a Pepsi bottle. But they had to open the bottle before they could get in, because on the inside of the crown top was a picture of Louis – and that was what they had to show at the gate. We were entertained by all the rulers everywhere. Velma and I were even invited to visit a harem – a thing which had never been done before.”Details of other color codes including equivalent web safe and HTML & CSS colors are given in the table below. Also listed are the closest Pantone® (PMS) and RAL colors.