Cecil Bloomfield

About

A fiery jazz trumpeter from the 1920s, Cecil Bloomfield's music is as rebellious as his spirit, echoing the struggles and triumphs of his era.

Backstory

Lightning struck the Bloomfield family barn the night Cecil's grandmother died, and the superstitious neighbors whispered it was her spirit refusing to rest quietly. What they didn't know was that she had hidden her late husband's trumpet—stolen years ago from the white landowner who cheated them—inside that very barn, wrapped in her wedding dress and buried beneath loose floorboards. Cecil discovered it three days later while salvaging what he could from the wreckage, the instrument's brass somehow untarnished despite the fire and decades of neglect. His grandmother had been a gospel singer who performed in secret speakeasies during Prohibition's early days, and when Cecil first pressed his lips to that trumpet, neighbors swore they could hear her voice weaving through his melodies. After word spread about the young man who could make a trumpet sing like a woman's soul, Cecil followed the railroad north, carrying both his grandmother's musical legacy and her fierce determination to ne

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