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...stories. The unlikely, implacable brilliance of Louis Armstrong, a genius raised on the streets of New Orleans whose mother hooked to survive. The resilience of Duke Ellington, born into comparative comfort, who would rise above race and dwell, as he liked to say, "beyond category," in a world of transcendent music. The bright, hard radiance of Bix Beiderbecke, dead too soon, and the huge spiritual yearning of John Coltrane, who died believing in the salvation his music could bring. Parker, the greatest and most lyrical and most forbidding pioneer of bop--a word he disliked--who exerted an irresistible force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Fascinating Rhythms | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...discovery. The history is fresh, the music is new to Burns, who, he has said, knew almost nothing about jazz until an offhand remark by a baseball player being interviewed for his previous series set him to thinking and got him listening. The rest of us can hear Ellington play The Single Petal of a Rose or Parker lay into Cherokee and be stirred by mute wonder. Burns doesn't have to go the mute route. He gets to extend and explore all those feelings, amplify them and put them all onto what may be the longest documentary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Fascinating Rhythms | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...onscreen docents, like trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the critics Gary Giddins and Stanley Crouch, easily weave the story of the music not only together with history but also with conventional cultural tradition. Mozart and Shakespeare are cited as cultural touchstones for the giants of jazz; the narration refers to Ellington as "America's greatest composer," an accolade that may well be deserved but which even the Duke might have found, however satisfying, a little exclusionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Fascinating Rhythms | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

Marsalis particularly can lay down the jazz gospel with an evangelical fervor, and Burns gives him plenty of time at the pulpit. Probably too much. It would certainly have been better, for instance, to hear directly from some of the musicians who helped make the history besides Ellington or Basie rather than have Marsalis evoking times he never experienced, even if you can practically see the tongue of fire over his head when he speaks. But Jazz's seventh and finest episode, Dedicated to Chaos, which chronicles the beginnings of the bebop revolution as well as the coming of hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Fascinating Rhythms | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...your albums, you make reference to Duke Ellington and his struggles on the road to get his music to people...

Author: By Malik B. Ali, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jazz Culture: Marsalis Blows His Own Trumpet | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

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