Commentary: Why Damien Chazelle's Netflix series 'The Eddy' atones for the sins 'Whiplash'
Jazz doesn't usually fare well in dramatizations, as any number of Hollywood films attest.
Bebop genius Charlie Parker emerged as a drugged-out buffoon in Clint Eastwood's demeaning biopic "Bird" (1988); Miles Davis came across as smaller than life in Don Cheadle's laughably plotted "Miles Ahead" (2015); Ethan Hawke's poetic portrayal of Chet Baker could not quite save Robert Budreau's convoluted "Born to be Blue" (2015); musical cliches overflowed in the fictional "Paris Blues" (1961); and so on.
So one didn't hold high hopes for "The Eddy," an ambitious Netflix series about the spirit of jazz and the lives of
