Feeling Kind Of Blue? Holocaust Survivor Lifts Lockdown Spirits Through Jazz
Saturday, 1 May 2021, 6:16 am An 89-year-old pianist who escaped the Holocaust in Nazi Germany almost eight decades ago, has been explaining how he started playing jazz in memory of his sister, and has kept going through the COVID-19 lockdown, playing from the window of his Brussels home “to give people courage.” Simon Gronowski spoke to the United Nations ahead of International Jazz Day, which is celebrated annually on 30 April as a force for “peace, unity, dialogue and enhanced cooperation among people”. © Photo courtesy of Simon Gronowski | Simon Gronowski as a young boy in 1940...
Source: scoop.co.nz