Where can I watch Ken Burns Jazz?

Watch Jazz | Prime Video.

How many episodes of Ken Burns Jazz are there?

10
Jazz/Number of episodes

Who narrates jazz on PBS?

Keith David
Jazz/Narrated by
The series will also be available to stream on PBS digital platforms beginning January 7. Nineteen hours in its total length, Jazz covers the creation and evolution of jazz from the early 20th century onward, as narrated by actor Keith David.

When did Ken Burns Jazz come out?

2000
Jazz/Initial release

What kind of music does Ken Burns play?

Ken Burns’s interminable documentary, Jazz, starts with a wrong premise and degenerates from there… Burns is a classicist, who is offended by the rawer sounds of the blues, its political dimension and inescapable class dynamic. Instead, Burns fixates on a particular kind of jazz music that appeals to his PBS sensibility: the swing era.

How long is the Ken Burns series Jazz?

Jason Van Bergen said, “The nearly 19 hours of documentary coverage contained in the Jazz series unravels like a fine wine”, and due to the series’ attention to detail, “a complete discussion of every episode in Ken Burns’s Jazz would be better suited for a master’s thesis” than to his brief review.

Why did Burns not give credit to African American musicians?

But even some critics who have spent their lives arguing for a proper recognition of jazz’s African-American essence believe that Burns—with the encouragement of Marsalis, Crouch and Murray—has pushed the Afrocentric line so far that the refusal to give credit to the contribution of white musicians undermines the series’ historical accuracy.”

What did Burns think of the genre of jazz?

It’s a genre of jazz that enables Burns to throw around phrases such as ‘Ellington is our Mozart.’ He sees jazz as an art form in the most culturally elitist sense, as being a museum piece, beautiful but dead, to be savored like a stroll through a gallery of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

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