FW: Keith Jarrett on Ken Burns

From: Mark Turner (nugroove@pacbell.net)
Date: Sat Feb 10 2001 - 06:26:26 CET

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    FYI...

    > >From NY Times Arts section
    >
    > To the Editor:
    >
    > Regarding Ken Burns's (or is it Wynton Marsalis's?) "Jazz": Now that
    > we've been put through the socioeconomic racial forensics of a
    > jazz-illiterate historian and a self- imposed jazz expert prone to
    > sophomoric generalizations and ultraconservative politically correct
    > (for now) utterances, not to mention a terribly heavy-handed
    > narration (where every detail takes on the importance of major
    > revelation) and weepy-eyed nostalgic reveries, can we have some films
    > about jazz by people who actually know and understand the music
    > itself and are willing to deal comprehensively with the last 40 years
    > of this richest of American treasures?
    >
    > KEITH JARRETT New York
    >
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