The Eddy – Soundtrack
The official soundtrack for Netflix’s Damien Chazelle-produced series The Eddy has been released.
The Eddy continues Chazelle’s music-focused productions that started with Whiplash in 2014, followed by the 2016 Oscar-winning hit, La La Land. In a way, Chazelle focuses on his penchant for jazz more exclusively than ever in his new Netflix series, as the show follows a former musician running a failing jazz club in Paris. Unsurprisingly, the show’s soundtrack is loaded with original jazz cuts from Glen Ballard and Randy Kerber alongside key features from contemporary artists such as St Vincent and Jorja Smith.
The original tracks are sung by actors Amandla Stenberg and Joanna Kulig, who also lead The Eddy’s house band. André Holland heads the cast as club owner Elliot Udo, whilst Stenberg plays his daughter who’s recently arrived in France from America. Mix in a best friend that owes money to gangsters—played by Tahar Rahim—and the unfortunate jazz musician has his hands full.
The VOCAL SOUND OF JAZZ began airing on 89.5 FM (now WHRV-FM) on January 4th 1980. Originally a 30 minute program that aired on Friday evenings, the program expanded to it current 60 minute format and moved to Saturday evenings during the 90s. It was also aired over WUOM in Ann Arbor, Michigan for a five-year period in the late 1980s.
Produced and hosted by Jack Frieden since its premiere broadcast, the program has always attempted to spotlight both jazz vocal music’s post 1950s history, as well as the new singers and songs that will continue to play an increasingly prominent role in the music’s future. With the internet’s ability to attract and entertain jazz vocal fans globally, Jack looks forward to broadening the mission and reach of the “Vocal Sound of Jazz” in coming years.
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