Bix and Jazz
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jazzy_daveAnother cold wintry day. There was some sunshine but it has disappeared behind the threatening malignancy of the clouds.
There is no reason for me to venture out and I am awaiting a package to arrive.
Last night I finished the first season of the eighties drama The Beiderbecke Affair starring James Bolam and Barbara Flynn on Britbox. I loved the series when it first came out in 1985 as it features James Bolam as a woodwork teacher who is into jazz music.
Geordie Trevor Chaplin (James Bolam) teaches woodwork, enjoys football and is passionate about jazz. Jill Swinburne (Barbara Flynn) is interested in neither football nor jazz but teaches English and wants to help save the planet, standing in a local election as "your Conservation candidate". After Jill left her husband, her colleague Trevor began giving her lifts to school and from there a relationship blossomed. They have an easy-going relationship where half the words seem to be left unspoken but the viewer is never in any doubt as to the subtext.
The Beiderbecke Affair — set in Leeds in 1985 — is a character-led drama with a plot that initially appears rather unclear, moving as it does from one seemingly unrelated event to another. These events—and the characters involved with them—are eventually shown to be interconnected.
It all unravels to a soundtrack of jazz music in the style of Bix Beiderbecke. The theme song of the series uses the actual Bix Beiderbecke instrumental "Crying All Day" by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra released in 1927 on Okeh Records and re-released in 1941 as part of the "Hot Jazz Classic" series on Columbia Records.
Theme tune
Sometimes I know how he feels -
It is a great series and I recommend the whole trilogy.
There is no reason for me to venture out and I am awaiting a package to arrive.
Last night I finished the first season of the eighties drama The Beiderbecke Affair starring James Bolam and Barbara Flynn on Britbox. I loved the series when it first came out in 1985 as it features James Bolam as a woodwork teacher who is into jazz music.
Geordie Trevor Chaplin (James Bolam) teaches woodwork, enjoys football and is passionate about jazz. Jill Swinburne (Barbara Flynn) is interested in neither football nor jazz but teaches English and wants to help save the planet, standing in a local election as "your Conservation candidate". After Jill left her husband, her colleague Trevor began giving her lifts to school and from there a relationship blossomed. They have an easy-going relationship where half the words seem to be left unspoken but the viewer is never in any doubt as to the subtext.
The Beiderbecke Affair — set in Leeds in 1985 — is a character-led drama with a plot that initially appears rather unclear, moving as it does from one seemingly unrelated event to another. These events—and the characters involved with them—are eventually shown to be interconnected.
It all unravels to a soundtrack of jazz music in the style of Bix Beiderbecke. The theme song of the series uses the actual Bix Beiderbecke instrumental "Crying All Day" by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra released in 1927 on Okeh Records and re-released in 1941 as part of the "Hot Jazz Classic" series on Columbia Records.
Theme tune
Sometimes I know how he feels -
It is a great series and I recommend the whole trilogy.
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