The flattened American landscape of minor writers

[David Morris]

I don't know how to respond to this sort of complaint except to point
out that when staking a point of view it's impossible to please
everyone.  Burn's Jazz documentary was very educational, and the fact
that he didn't try to encompass all aspects of Jazz up to its nearly
non-existent present isn't a fault, IMHO.  It's an aspect of editing.

And racism and gun violence was definitely not absent from his documentary.

David Morris

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.