Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Jazz Inmate (R) on October 22, 2008 at 22:47:14

In Reply to: RE: Having enjoyed Burns "Civil War" I was disappointed with "Jazz" posted by grinagog on October 22, 2008 at 20:20:24

If your idea of jazz is Louis Armstrong, Duke, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Diz, you'll love it. But Burns' narrative is too exclusive and hindsight driven. It doesn't work for me. Part of the reason is he spends so much time on jazz's development from New Orleans music and dancehall/swing big bands. He started running out of time and budget before he even got to 1950. Like many, I think the most exciting advances in jazz came toward the end of that decade and into the 1960s. So the emphasis on earlier periods left me flat. And some who I regard as the absolute geniuses of jazz, like Bud Powell and Wayne Shorter, were given short shrift.
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