The flattened American landscape of minor writers

[Robin Landseadel]

On Feb 27, 2009, at 9:22 AM, rich wrote:

> its the equivalent of Ken Burns/Wynton Marsalis dismissing avant-garde
> jazz in mere sentences, particularly the work of Cecil Taylor, in
> their Jazz documentary.

Part of Ken Burns larger plan to demonstrate that Jazz was as American  
as apple pie & baseball, instead of being as American as racism and  
gun violence. I found the series' focus on Louis Armstrong at the  
expense of practically everything else to be particularly exasperating.