Just a century ago, Claude McKay arrived in Marseille. This port, a true gateway to Africa, will be the ideal setting to depict the eventful history of a band that remained at the dock, and between the lines to tell another story of the arrival of jazz in France, far from the official accounts of Worldly Paris, much more in tune with all the realities of a diaspora which composes its soundtrack, creolized as desired.
Before arriving there, the native of Jamaica (September 15, 1889) had already seen many countries since his green years spent in…
