The flattened American landscape of minor writers/: ALL that Jazz?!

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

The way Burns & Marsalis try to sell to the viewer the 1960s/70s is sheer
propaganda. These guys hate Free Jazz as much as they hate Electric Jazz.
And how they (plus Mr. Crouch) treated the immortal Miles Davis was
outrageuosly respectless. About Ragtime and Satchmo I did learn a
thing or two, though.
Kai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnFhnscKRXQ

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> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:21:49 -0600
> Subject: Re: The flattened American landscape of minor writers
> From: fqmorris at gmail.com
> To: robinlandseadel at comcast.net
> CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>
> 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
> 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.