Tue, Feb 5, 2013
With Wesley gone Louis is disappointed at the band's lack of progress,then Mr Donaldson arranges for them to play at a funeral organized by reclusive Lady Cremone,a dedicated jazz fan and former globe-trotter whom Stanley interviews for his magazine. Back in London Pamela is attracted to Stanley's socialist views and Sarah and Louis begin an affair whilst Masterson asks Louis to tell Julian 'not to worry'. Thanks to Lady Cremone the band get a radio spot and a prospective record deal as well as playing a Christmas command performance for the Prince of Wales though star vocalist Jessie is unwell and Carla takes her place. Julian is about to leave for Paris on business for Masterson but Pamela shows concern about his mental state. Soon afterwards Louis sees Julian running down a corridor away from a room in which a badly injured Jessie lies.
Mon, Feb 11, 2013
Interviewed by the police about the attack on Jessie Louis tells them that he saw Julian fleeing the scene but Pamela is insistent he was in Paris and asks Stanley to contact him with the news as he was especially fond of Jessie. The band plays at the Imperial's Christmas dinner party but racist Germans walk out in disgust. However Jessie recovers from her coma after a visit from a kindly Donaldson,who has virtually talked her out of it. Lady Cremone throws a New Year party for her village and invites the band to play. Julian returns,claiming to have been in France when Jessie was attacked but Louis passes on his suspicions to Sarah whilst Pamela and Stanley start to date. Interested in learning more about the new electronic music pioneered by a German Stanley arranges a gig at the German embassy and,to get revenge for what happened on Christmas day,smuggles in a reluctant Louis to play for them. They are forced to leave without Stanley gaining his information and encounter Lady Cremone,who tells them that Jessie has had a relapse and died.
Mon, Feb 4, 2013
London,1933:-Panic-stricken jazz band leader Louis Lester asks his friend, music journalist Stanley Mitchell, to help him flee the country. Eighteen months previously Louis and his band are playing in a jazz cellar, but Stanley sees their potential and persuades Nathan Schlesinger to book them at his Imperial Hotel. Whilst older patrons are shocked and walk out the band impresses bright young siblings Pamela and Julian Luscombe, their photographer friend Sarah and music agent Mr Donaldson, the latter negotiating a residency at the hotel and on whose advice Louis engages vocalists Carla and Jessie. He also arranges for the band to play at a garden party for the king's son Prince George where they meet an American millionaire, Mr Masterson, Julian's employer. Some nights later Julian calls Louis in to help him smuggle a young woman out of Masterson's hotel room after something--of which Louis is not told--has gone wrong. Wesley Holt, the band's manager, is deported back to Chicago on possibly trumped up charges but the band itself is in the ascendancy as the Prince of Wales comes to see them at the hotel and expresses his approval.
Mon, Feb 18, 2013
Using Sarah's private photographs Stanley compiles a special edition of 'Music Express' glorifying Jessie's career and Masterson arranges a lavish wake where Louis is puzzled by Julian's passionate oration. Afterwards Masterson announces that he has bought 'Music Express' and intends to make it Europe's leading entertainment magazine with Stanley as editor under Lady Cremone and Sarah as staff photographer. Louis is again questioned by the police,who tell him that two complete strangers gave Julian an alibi for Jessie's murder. However at a function in the hotel for Freemasons Louis discovers that the 'strangers' are actually friends of Julian. Now the chief suspect and mistrustful of Masterson,who is about to leave for America with Julian, Louis accepts Sarah's advice and asks Donaldson to phone for a lawyer for him. However the police arrive instead and,although Sarah tries to assure him that it was coincidence,Louis goes on the run,missing the dinner to launch the new-look magazine.
Mon, Feb 25, 2013
Hit by the scandal the hotel loses many of its residents and the band is forced to split up. Stanley and Sarah hide Louis in a house belonging to Stanley's assistant Eric whilst Stanley retrieves his passport from the hotel. He asks Lady Cremone to help but she has no desire to involve herself. However,when she learns that Masterson is offering a huge reward for Stanley's capture she wonders if he is covering for Julian,whom he describes as being like a son to him and who is accompanying him to America. Despite Louis's suspicions of her Pamela chooses to help and ,with Eric and Stanley,they hide out at the jazz club. They are joined by the reformed band. Meanwhile Julian,terrified of leaving London and his sister,hides out with Donaldson who delivers him to Masterson. The three men go to a restaurant where Julian kills himself. Pamela and Stanley join the band and they board a train for a supposed engagement in France,dodging police and immigration officials. Julian's suicide clears Louis who later phones Stanley,now dating Pamela, telling him he has put together a new band in France.