Comments are always funny with the coat that it's all about notes you I don't know hear. A complete set of jokes, of course, but there's some truth to it. "Appreciate" a song is sung to give the wrong impression, to ignore the music on the page and to play around with the form, whether that means taking notes or taking them down. (Please open your excellent booklets on Frankie Trumbauer's 91st mark and the 1927 Orchestra recording "Singing & # 39; The Blues," and tell me if trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke made a mistake, or hinted at the emergence of a new art form.) So it's no surprise that Netflix's new focus series Eddy it's not about playing in conventions. Short for the show – that is Damien Chazelle, director of Whiplash, La La Land, and The First Man, has created a series about the expulsion of an African-American running a jazz club in Paris – quickly suggests some conclusions, but Eddy it protects all expectations.
First, it's set for now. It's 1955, and nobody is wearing a beret, smoking a hand-rolled cigarette, or crossing a Pont-Neuf with a baguette under one arm. In fact, except for one click, and you'll miss it — it's the Eiffel Tower in the distance, nothing from city cards anywhere EddyEight interesting episodes, literally shot.
The club is on a nondescript street, and the character homes are outside ring road, usually in the wrong blocks. Paris is depicted as a city of aliens, overflowing with ingenuity and excitement, but with many people trembling.
Also, no use items are the same La La LandI open a dance for traffic, WhiplashExisting use of a drum, or a traditional sad act of The First Man. The style, created by Chazelle in the first two articles, then passed on to director Houda Benyamina (director Magic
The show's anchor is Elliot Udo (André Holland), a jazz legend in exile. She left New York, and has had no emotional ability to play the piano since the death of her son. He still writes, however, and has recruited a team that works like a house team at Eddy's struggling club, working with him and his long-time owner pal Farid (Tahar Rahim). His 16-year-old daughterThe Hunger Games and Hate You GivePower Stenberg) made some poor decisions in New York, so he was sent to live with Dad as a last resort. Elliot is a man who has a lot on his mind, and that's before he finds out that Farid has a variety of illegal hives.
Elliot's head injury to gangsters and police could have been the star of any other sport, but it's a B-story here. The center stage is his music. The Eddy Band is made up of piano, bass, drums, tenor saxophone and trumpet. (And in another case, flugelhorn, hell yeah!) The Eddy Band singer is Elliot's on-and-off (but lately) Maja's daughter, played by The Cold War& # 39; Joanna Kulig.
Kulig has been a songwriter in Poland for over 20 years, so it is not surprising that it is in fact his antithesis to distributing Elliot's sophisticated charts. Surprisingly, all the band members really play, too. It's amazing because these are not just young players with a few lines, they are all outstanding players playing for the first time.
Eddy it is definitely a story-based series, with a first season arc and a nail-biting ending. But one of the great things about this show is how each episode focuses on allowing a certain character to appear in the ensemble. For most of the series, there are the spectacles of the legendary drummer Katarina (Lada Obradovic), a woman who was painted by a Croatian painter. But we don't see things from his perspective until the seventh episode, when we experience the difficulties that surrounded him. You may even interpret the rotation of a color between characters as representing a particular type alone inside the main building. (Dig, man, hold on.)
But it's not just musicians who are struggling to beat. While Elliot is certainly a star, we get plenty of time to understand what passes for her daughter Julie. The show also explores Sim, a kid working at a club bar, who would make a good couple with Julie, if they could do a few things. Then there is Farid's wife Amira, played kindly and tenderly by Leïla Bekhti, who also married Rahim in real life.
The series takes time to adjust before leaving the club behind to explore the North African culture of Paris. Specification is key here – the show is live in funerals, and is found in several Muslim burial traditions, most of which I have never seen in a film before. It's a little risky (but also, in the best of jazz culture) unfairly not focusing on the plot of a long line of what is actually a wall-to-wall, cultural filmmaking, but it gives the show its much-needed flavor. This same episode (directed by Houda Benyamina) will soon be back to take us to a completely different place: the "costume funeral."
And the return of jazz is what these artists do. On top of all the other Elliot heads, he's always snapping at the songs and writing songs. We watch him introduce the songs to the band, see them followed, and finally get excited when he runs live. Their last rainbow goal is recording an album, but getting there won't be easy.
In a bold move, the Eddy Band doesn't play jazz jazz. The songs are from the original, written by multiple Grammy-winning Glenmyardard, pop and Broadway producer, and co-author of Michael Jackson's "The Man in the Mirror" and Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little", among many others. (EddyThe great author is Jack Thorne, whose credentials include playing Harry Potter and the Sent Baby, and HBO & # 39; s His Dark Materials, as well as British television.) The songs have one foot in the style of the "Great American Songbook" (e.g. George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern), a genre of songs that have been beautifully transformed into jazz standards for decades. But they have splashes of modernity, too – hip-hop soup goes a long way. Most importantly, though, is that this is not a simple, easy-to-listen, jazz-ass thing. These cats are really free, and when the time is right, they work.
Organized in a multicultural Paris cultural organization, the club section also plays host to some Afrobeat and North African inspired music. So the character trajectory of the characters, especially Sim's episode, is set to block his community. There is even a bit where the band takes over the wedding gig, but manage to turn it around.
No sooner do I indulge in the city of Seine than say "songs are like characters," but they are specifically designed to get viewers to create a personal attachment – and then I can sing these endless songs. Above all else, Eddy it is a fuel-rich vehicle for finding some eclectic, and well-made music in the world. (The audio album drops on the same day as the show.) However, victory is not the only thing Eddy A great window into the jazz process, or “jazz life.” It's about the show an extended residence of rich characters. The last episode is as intense as the one who loves to do something heavy, even though it is about the person playing the piano ballad. Setting up eight episodes of occasional human war and crime clashes, and put you in one moment of singing? It is a perfect illustration of "molding it."
Netflix will release all eight episodes of them Eddy on May 8th.
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