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Filmmaker Ken Burns, a Grammy, Emmy and Peabody Award winner, defended his landmark new documentary "Jazz" at a panel discussion entitled "Jazz, Race and American Identity" last night at Harvard Law School's Austin Hall...
Panelists--including W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., Law School Professor Charles J. Ogletree and a number of jazz experts and critics--explored the impact of jazz on American history and culture through the context of the documentary...
Panelists also discussed the history of race relations as played out in the jazz movement...
...front of a packed room, Burns, who has won acclaim for his previous documentaries on the Civil War and baseball, fended off attacks from other panelists that the film had left out important aspects of jazz history...
Last month this CD earned the funky, brass-heavy horde of Chicagoans a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, but Ken Burns and Wynton Marsalis might not file it under "Jazz." Foremost a dance band, Liquid Soul makes improvisation take a backseat to grooves aimed at shaking backsides. Sadly, the band freights the album's first half with uninspired chants, and the self-conscious guest vocals by Simone, daughter of Nina, add more sandbags to the balloon. Later on, when everyone shuts up and lets the horns do the singing, it's easier to get up and dance...