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Artist: KEN BURNS JAZZ-STORY OF AMERICA’S MUSIC
Title: KEN BURNS JAZZ-STORY OF AMERICA’S MUSIC
Street Release Date: 11/14/2000
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Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of American Music
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#1 by Anonymous on March 30, 2010 - 1:29 am
I thoroughly enjoyed the documentary on PBS, but this collection leaves much to be desired.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on March 30, 2010 - 4:10 am
The Ken Burns series is a joke to anyone who likes Jazz.
Sure Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Miles Davis were great. But there is clearly too much here by these artists.
What about Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Bill Evans, Chet Baker, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Tito Puente, Airto Moreira? Mongo Santamaria? Where are the white people? What about all the Latin American influences? The are among the bestselling Jazz artists of all time! There is no “originator” in Jazz. Like an quantum mechanics, where everything effects everything, like the butterfly wing in Asia than causes a hurricane in America, everyone in Jazz listened to everyone, everyone influenced everyone.
“Performance, not pigment”. That pompous fool Ken Burns should have listened to his own point.
This is no “History of Jazz”. Why didn’t PBS edit this disc and this series before allowing Burns to do whatever he wanted?
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by John Salmon on March 30, 2010 - 6:46 am
Ken Burns’ Jazz is a misnomer…it’s a jazz history done to accomodate Wynton Marsalis’ agenda. The agenda amounts to denigrating the accomplishments of white musicians, calling all fusion junk, and promoting Wynton.
Rating: 2 / 5
#4 by Bill Gold on March 30, 2010 - 8:23 am
FOR SALE: 2 CDs, $50.00, recorded from a box of 5. A collection of what I feel is GOOD jazz representing America could be very easily edited from the 5 discs and put comfortably on 2. Ken Burns is definitely a jazz authority, but his taste was all in his mouth when he selected some of what he thought to be appropriate American jazz. I feel that I spent almost $50.00 to get the equalivant of 2 good discs for the price of 5. Would you be willing to spend that much? I wanted to rate the 5 disc set at 2 1/2 stars but the rating table would only let me choose 2 or 3, so I yielded the diffefence.
Rating: 3 / 5
#5 by Tigerdag on March 30, 2010 - 11:07 am
Contrary to what some reviewers have stated, this is not a good place for someone wanting to get into jazz. This is mainly because this set costs too much for that. Also, there’s over-whelmingly too much Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday and Dizzie Gillespie tracks here and little else. You would think that with a 5 disc box set, that Ken Burns could have come up with even little known but great jazz artists to include in this collection aside from adding a few more of the wider known ones as well. I am not a “jazz snob” and I feel it’s unfair to some of the newer, more contemporary artists to be ignored as well – the rock equivalent of that would be refusing to acknowledge the talent of Jack White simply because he doesn’t play like Clapton or Hendrix.
Rating: 2 / 5