Afro-British

Giddens and Turrisi recently finished composing the music for a ballet, staged in Nashville, titled “Lucy Negro Redux,” about Black Luce, the Afro-British brothel keeper who some scholars think may have been the inspiration for the “dark lady” of Shakespeare’s sonnets.

In 2012, the U.K. company Surrey Opera presented the posthumous première of the Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “Thelma,” from 1909, after it was excavated from the British Library’s archives.

But at a Tuesday afternoon show at Spotify House, on an outdoor stage, Jungle didn’t hide that they are about as Afro-British as the Average White Band was.

Also, though the movie’s story is dreadfully compelling, this excellent Afro-British actor lacks the backstory of the man who win…