Night in Tunisia
The scene where we first meet Mickey Cohen bugged me. They chose to use Dizzy Gillespie's "Night in Tunisia" and make a point of highlighting the band as the camera enters the club. First off, I've never been to a jazz club where the band is placed at the front with nothing behind them but a sliver of curtain. Second, would an all-white band realistically be covering a bebop tune in 1947? Sarah Vaughn slowed down this classic tune and added lyrics in 1944 but her version is a far cry from the watered down digestible version used for the cut scene in this show. It highlights to me the biggest flaw in this show. The music just doesn't fit.
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