Posted by Gregory Solman on February 04, 2001 at 16:05:57:
In Reply to: Re: Jazz posted by David Sager on February 01, 2001 at 09:32:38:
I'll comment in greater length when I have a few minutes (unlike Ken Burns, I spend hours a day, you know, PRACTICING jazz). But you reminded me of one of the many offensive aspects of this program. It professes to be devoted to jazz, yet a) songs were edited together, as if for a Hollywood movie that needs to limit a song for a credit sequence. (I guess Gerry Mulligan's great Walkin' Shoes was sauntering too slowly for Burns, since he wanted to dismiss all of West Coast cool jazz- producing some of the greatest jazz in history - in one minute or less. I don't count the Brubeck segment, which was to amplify other points.) That's disgraceful in a documentary on jazz! b) Sounds (like Goodman arriving in L.A., Buddy Bolden's trumpet playing, which is not recorded anywhere, were recreated and simulated. What a cheap, ridiculous, anti-historical technique!
And why did they allow Brandford to say the "mother******" word on public television? It must be that Ken Burns is a "Artist!"