The flattened American landscape of minor writers

[rich]

The impression given by Burns was that Jazz is now dead--its a museum
piece like the Civil War. it died in the early 60s



On 2/27/09, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>