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.

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. At the 34th Academy Awards for films from 1961, Ellington was nominated for the Oscar for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture but the award was given, rather expectedly, to Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal for West Side Story. The award was part of the ten (10) Oscar juggernaut awarded to West Side Story that year.

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It’s a challenge if the person you love deeply is color blind. What if they see everything as one shade or other of the color blue? How will you share the multitude of vivid colors that surround you? But if the person you love also suffers from an apparent emotional blindness, the challenges threaten to become insurmountable; the blueness of everything begins to seep into your soul. 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. 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.

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. In place of the travelogue element, we get a lovely scene in which Sidney Poitier (Eddie Cook), and Diahann Carroll (Connie Lampson) stroll around the Bird Market on Île de la Cité. Although they are in love, Eddie is in Paris primarily because Parisians are noted for being colour blind and he is judged solely on his skill as a saxophonist rather than the colour of his skin. Connie, however, is active in the struggle for racial equality and urges Eddie to return with her to the US and stand up to be counted. The music is nothing less than a delight. After scoring Anatomy Of A Murder, Duke Ellington had obviously acquired a taste for the silver screen and turned in something that was nominated for a 1961 Oscar (though it lost, unsurprisingly to West Side Story). 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.Music plays a big part in this story. It is music that brings them together in the first place, and the thing that they bond over so intensely, creating an emotional connection well before anything else. The music is so instrumental to their relationship, in fact, that Scolnik provides an index at the end of the pieces that meant the most to them. It’s a sentimental addition that creates another layer of vulnerability to the story being told. The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. Vincent Van Gogh

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Color Charts The lyrical language weaving it’s journey via the passion for music has left me exhausted; this is not the easy read I was expecting although hints were there which didn’t register. It’s a very American story with references to an early music and literature immersion by the whole of Julie’s family. Not your typical family I expect. The admiration was mutual - French cinephiles loved American jazz. The film score became a key area of collaboration as jazz musicians worked closely with a younger generation of radical directors that made up the French new wave. These scores elevated French films to new levels of intensity, cool and atmosphere. 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.

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!” Color Space Conversions Decimal 3888527 Binary 00111011, 01010101, 10001111 Hexadecimal #3b558f LRV ≈ 9.4% Closest short hex #458 ΔE = 1.961 RGB rgb(59, 85, 143) RGBA rgba(59, 85, 143, 1.0) rg chromaticity r: 0.206, g: 0.296, b: 0.498 RYB red: 23.137%, yellow: 30.923%, blue: 56.078% Android / android.graphics.Color -12888689 / 0xff3b558f HSL hsl(221, 42%, 40%) HSLA hsla(221, 42%, 40%, 1.0) HSV / HSB hue: 221° (221.429), saturation: 59% (0.587), value: 56% (0.561) HSP hue: 221.429, saturation: 58.741%, perceived brightness: 34.217% HSL uv (HUSL) H: 256.075, S: 63.935, L: 36.760 Cubehelix H: -140.528, S: 0.572, L: 0.328 TSL T: -2.162, S: 0.179, L: 0.329 CMYK cyan: 59% (0.587), magenta: 41% (0.406), yellow: 0% (0.000), key: 44% (0.439) CMY cyan: 77% (0.769), magenta: 67% (0.667), yellow: 44% (0.439) XYZ X: 10.008, Y: 9.409, Z: 27.270 xyY x: 0.214, y: 0.202, Y: 9.409 CIELab L: 36.760, a: 8.693, b: -35.102 CIELuv L: 36.760, u: -12.420, v: -50.094 CIELCH / LCHab L: 36.760, C: 36.162, H: 283.909 CIELUV / LCHuv L: 36.760, C: 51.610, H: 256.075 Hunter-Lab L: 30.674, a: 4.560, b: -31.238 CIECAM02 J: 26.753, C: 42.079, h: 258.523, Q: 101.904, M: 36.798, s: 60.092, H: 310.320 OSA-UCS lightness: -10.367, jaune: -6.197, green: 1.121 LMS L: 6.948, M: 9.097, S: 26.975 YCbCr Y: 88.017, Cb: 157.310, Cr: 112.468 YCoCg Y: 93.000, Cg: -8.000, Co: -6.250 YDbDr Y: 83.838, Db: 89.014, Dr: 47.244 YPbPr Y: 83.638, Pb: 31.990, Pr: -15.668 xvYCC Y: 87.830, Cb: 156.101, Cr: 114.237 YIQ Y: 83.838, I: -34.122, Q: 12.548 YUV Y: 83.838, U: 29.114, V: -21.791 Okhsl h: 264.550, s: 0.547, l: 0.373 Okhsv h: 264.550. s: 0.546, v: 0.575 Okhwb h: 264.550, w: 0.261, b: 0.425 Oklab l: 0.458, a: -0.010, b: -0.100 Oklch l: 0.458, c: 0.100, h: 264.550 Munsell Color System 7.5PB 3/10 ΔE = 4.144 Brand Color Facebook ΔE = 1.973 Random Colors 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.

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Paris Blue” is a drama-filled memoir by Julie Scolnik chronicling her decade-plus, on and off romantic relationship with a Frenchman named Luc, a lover who shares Julie's passion for classical and baroque music. This book has several dimensions and layers. In addition to Billy Byers and Guy Lafitte, Aaron Bridges is seen at the piano, the famed Moustache on drums, Jean Vees (Django’s cousin) on guitar, and the following musicians from Butler’s own group all appear – Roland Legrand, Germain Couvin, Maurice Longrais (t), Al Levat (tb) Silvie Mamie (g) and Barel Coppet, Emilien Antille, Louis Joseph Marel, Sian D’Albonne saxes. Paris in the civil rights era was a hub of artistic collaboration as well as a kind of political refuge - a destination for American jazz musicians escaping racial prejudice and turbulence at home, finding new creative encounters abroad. 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. 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.