Members companyman Posted March 31, 2011 Members Share Posted March 31, 2011 is really engrossing, I love Jazz so much, it gives me a feeling of nostalgia. Like a pride in something "American", a thing that never happens with me. Especially Louis Armstrong, what a treasure of a man! It is streaming on Netflix now. :love: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Josh33 Posted March 31, 2011 Members Share Posted March 31, 2011 that is a seriously great piece of work. A+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TravvyBear Posted March 31, 2011 Members Share Posted March 31, 2011 I love Ken Burns stuff, will be checking this out, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members companyman Posted March 31, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 31, 2011 I finished The Civil War a couple of weeks ago, a monumental achievement also, highly recommended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members crybaby530 Posted March 31, 2011 Members Share Posted March 31, 2011 Yes!!! I recommend watching every second of this show! Right now I'm taking a "Baseball and the American Experience" class and the Ken Burns Baseball Doc is what we use. Best college class I have ever taken, watch a movie once a week and then write a three page paper on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TomCTC Posted March 31, 2011 Members Share Posted March 31, 2011 I have the Ken Burns Jazz Series CD collection, alot of great standards in there. The feature on Thelonious Monk is a great one, his version of Criss Cross and Straight No Chaser swing really nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ItchyFingers Posted March 31, 2011 Members Share Posted March 31, 2011 I have a friend from the UK, an older gentleman who I've worked with locally and in China. He was here in the States on a work visa for two years, but had very limited experience with "American culture" - if that even exists. So at the beginning of his trip, he said he watched Ken Burns' Jazz, Baseball, and Civil War documentaries. Says it gave him an indepth look at a purely american artform, our pasttime, and our worst time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 is really engrossing, I love Jazz so much, it gives me a feeling of nostalgia. Like a pride in something "American", a thing that never happens with me. Especially Louis Armstrong, what a treasure of a man! It is streaming on Netflix now. :love: Satchmo will always be an American national treasure, and jazz will always be one of the few truly great American art forms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members erksin Posted March 31, 2011 Members Share Posted March 31, 2011 I thought it was good but lacking depth, I already knew quite a bit about the history and the shapers of the music before I saw the doc so it was just a rehash for me. I guess what bugged me the most was that there were so many influential living players who could have been interviewed that weren't like Kenny Burrell or Sonny Rollins, etc. It would have been more than just a history lesson if people like that had been included - they still make powerful music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members erksin Posted March 31, 2011 Members Share Posted March 31, 2011 Satchmo will always be an American national treasure, and jazz will always be one of the few truly great American art forms. He singlehandedly changed music - there is no contesting this. Prior to Satch popular music was either classical, marches, or based in the theatre. His phrasing style both with his voice and his horn was completely original at the time - every modern musician and singer owes him a huge thanks for busting out of rigid time structures and putting some frickin' stank on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members companyman Posted March 31, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 31, 2011 stank LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ItchyFingers Posted March 31, 2011 Members Share Posted March 31, 2011 I guess what bugged me the most was that there were so many influential living players who could have been interviewed that weren't like Kenny Burrell or Sonny Rollins, etc. It would have been more than just a history lesson if people like that had been included - they still make powerful music. Saw Kenny Burrell at the Catalina Club in LA awhile back. Such a badass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members erksin Posted April 1, 2011 Members Share Posted April 1, 2011 I'm sayin'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members erksin Posted April 1, 2011 Members Share Posted April 1, 2011 I'm a Ken Burns fan, BTW - seen everything he's ever done. Even met him a few times. One of the coolest moments of my life was playing in a softball game that Ken hosted with the Telluride Film Festival to coincide with the Baseball doc that premiered there (like 1992/3-ish I think). I was on a team of people from the town vs. 'All Stars' from the festival like Werner Hertzog the director and Nina Hartley the porn star. We {censored}ing crushed them, although we let Nina score an inside the park homer just so we could watch her run the bases. Buck O'Neill was the umpire. If you've seen the doc, you know who I'm talking about. Sweetest man ever to walk the face of the earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 stank FTW. Fix't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members manymanyhaha Posted April 1, 2011 Members Share Posted April 1, 2011 {censored} yes, Ken Burns' Jazz, {censored} yes. {censored} yes, Ken Burns' Civil War, {censored} yes. {censored} yes, Ken Burns' Baseball, {censored} yes. {censored} yes, Ken Burns' The War, {censored} yes. {censored} yes, Ken Burns' National Parks, {censored} yes Did I say {censored}? Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members erksin Posted April 1, 2011 Members Share Posted April 1, 2011 This is my favorite doc he's done so far - all about the early development of broadcast media and the inventors who got hosed out of fame and fortune: Empire Of The Airhttp://www.pbs.org/kenburns/empire/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members companyman Posted April 1, 2011 Author Members Share Posted April 1, 2011 STANK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tim gueguen Posted April 1, 2011 Members Share Posted April 1, 2011 Jazz has its problems, such as the condescending attitude towards much of what happened to jazz post 1960. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dcooper830 Posted April 1, 2011 Members Share Posted April 1, 2011 I'm a huge jazz lover and I thought the series was quite good for the most part. I watched it a long time ago and haven't seen it since..... but there were things about it that annoyed me.Every artist they covered....... at one point or another it was mentioned that they were the "greatest _______ in jazz""Billy Holiday was the greatest singer in jazz......." "Coleman Hawkins was the greatest tenor playor in jazz......."Also..... one of their talking head guys was quite the reverse racist. He was always getting in a dig on white people in his comments. And, at one point, he said "Art Blakey specifically wrote music that white people couldn't play......." I thought that was a bunch of B.S.Also I would have liked to have seen some guitarists covered...... or some piano players. I can't remember....... but I don't think they covered any. But....... they did cover some of the most important artists.... Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, etc...It wasn't perfect..... but still fascinating and enjoyable to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 "The greatest ____ " in anything is always subjective, but as much as I like Billie Holiday, if I was pushed to pick the greatest jazz singer, I'd probably say it was Ella Fitzgerald. YMMV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members less_cunning Posted April 1, 2011 Members Share Posted April 1, 2011 i've never see these becuz when they are rebroadcasted on PBS i never end up seeing them from the beginning. or they show them during a pledge-drive & i just don't have the tolerance for the pledge breaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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