Emmet Ray

See also: Ray (homonymy)

Emmet Ray is a character of fiction presented like more ignored guitarists of jazz, created by Woody Allen for the film “Sweet and lowdown” (“Accords and dissensions”). It is interprêté by Sean Penn which makes playback on solos of Howard Alden.

Suffering from many defects of which the claim, he wanders from the New Jersey in Chicago and Strait in Hollywood, in many tribulations (of an American in America). He meets a dumb young woman (Samantha Morton), but unable to like it, he goes, on a blow of head, to marry another woman (Uma Thurman), beautiful, but more attracted finally by the character than by the man. Its true love being the guitar, he suffers to be only one pale copy of his idol Django Reinhardt.

Anecdote

Its supposed existence sowed the disorder at the people without jazzistic culture, causing in the record dealers an surge of customers quickly depities by the inexistence of this artist. But the career of Howard Alden therefore was not (Re) impetus.

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