(Please open your jazzsplaining brochures to the 91-second mark of Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra’s 1927 recording of “Singin’ The Blues,” and tell me whether trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke made a mistake, or succinctly pinpointed the emergence of a new art form.) So it’s no surprise that Netflix’s new jazz-centered series The Eddy isn’t about playing to conventions. “Jazzing up” a song is slang for offering misdirection, for ignoring the music on the page and playing around with form, whether that means adding notes or dropping them. Perfect setup for a joke, sure, but there’s truth to it. An oft-ridiculed comment on jazz is that it’s all about the notes you don’t hear.
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