Jazz is a 2001 television documentary miniseries, directed by Ken Burns. It was broadcast on PBS in 2001 and was released on DVD and VHS on January 2, 2001, by the same company. Its chronological and thematic episodes provided a history of jazz, emphasizing innovative composers and musicians and American history. Swing musicians Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington are the central figures. Several episodes discussed the later contributions of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie to bebop, and Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and John Coltrane to free and cool jazz. Nine episodes surveyed forty-five years (1917–1961), leaving the final episode to cover forty years (1961–2001). Florentine Films produced the series in cooperation with the BBC and in association with WETA-TV, Washington.
Baseball (1994) Review
Too long and slow for its good Ken Burns baseball sounds like the old uncle repeating the same stories long after he made his point.