Ken Burns' Jazz

[Richard Romeo]

found this quote telling from a review in today's Village Voice:

Burns can't seem to focus on the astract tendencies of truly modern jazz. He 
details how Miles Davis's electric fusion was modeled after the appeal of 
artists like Sly Stone, but ignores well-documented connections between this 
music and contemporary composers such as Stockhausen. The film's aesthetic 
bias is best exemplified by Albert Murray's on-camera pronouncement that 
"you can't embrace entropy." But isn't that what modern improvisation is 
largely about?

anyone remember the spoken word at the end of Miles' Inamorato on the Live 
Evil record?  ;)

Rich
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