Review of Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) by Jesse F — 20 Nov 2009
Think of it as a playlist, really. A jazz mixtape, punctuated by a Vaudeville song-and-dance starring shuffling alcoholic musicians, depressed, demoralized, alone, and without about as much sense for narrative structure as you'd find in that drunk girl they dropped down the stairs, head first.
Surely the jazz age wasn't as angry and plodding as all that?
This review of Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) was written by Jesse F on 20 Nov 2009.
Pete Kelly's Blues has generally received mixed reviews.
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