Blues Tag

Amirah Vann knows she gives off serious mama energy on screen and she or he’s made peace with it. Long before she welcomed a baby of her own on the planet, the now 42-year-old actress was forged because the ferocious and flawed Ms. Ernestine, enslaved mother to a few enslaved children, within the historical drama Underground. Now, she’s taking up one other dynamic mother role. This time in Tyler Perry’s latest effort, A Jazzman’s Blues, coming to Netflix on Friday, September 23.  The period piece, happening over 40 years, follows the forbidden love between Bayou (Joshua Boone) and Leanne (Solea Pfeiffer). Twenty seven years within the making, it’s a coming-of-age story about heartbreak and family secrets within the confederate south.  In Perry’s...