Burns' Center

A bibliographic clearing house for articles and opinions about Ken Burns’ series "Jazz" on PBS-TV.

Compilation © 2001 San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation

Compiled 1/17/01 and Updated 3/10/01




Printed Articles

(partial listing; many available via Lexis-Nexis, by ordering back issues, or on the web.)

William Carter, "Count Your (Mixed) Blessings",   5,100 words plus sidebars, Mississippi Rag, 3/01

Stuart Nicholson, "Rewriting History", approx. 900 words, The Spectator, 2/17/01

David Hajdu, "Not Quite All That Jazz", approx. 3000 words, New York Review of Books, 2/8/01

Jeff Simon, "More Than Just History", 1457 words, The Buffalo News, 2/4/01

Don Heckman, "All That Jazz", 1460 words, Los Angeles Times, 2/2/01 [plus story 1 week earlier]

Mark Feeney, "...Race Matters", 1857 words, The Boston Globe, 1/28/01

"Carvin' the Bird", cover story, New Republic, 1/22/01

Keith Jarrett & five others, Letters to the Editor, approx. 1000 words, New York Times, 1/21/01

Tim Page, "Filmmaker Ken Burns, Blowing Jazz’s Horn", 650 words, Washington Post, 1/17/01

Nicholas Jennis & Susan Oh, "All That Jazz", Maclean's, 1/15/01

Diana West, "All that Jazz: Ken Burns in Black and White", 2267 words, Weekly Standard, 1/15/01

Jonathan Yardley, "The Sound Bites of Jazz", approx. 600 words, Washington Post, 1/15/01

Charlie Gordon, "People are flocking to Ken Burns’ TV series on jazz. Why are jazz purists aflutter?", 1003 words, The Ottawa Citizen, 1/15/01

Duncan Campbell, "America Finds Its Soul In Music", 2039 words, The Observer (London), 1/14/01

Celia Wren, "Take Five", approx. 1700 words, Commonweal, 1/12/01

Jay Cocks, "Fascinating Rhythms", Time, 1/8/01

David Gates, "The Story of ‘Jazz’ ", 2902 words, Newsweek, 1/8/01

George F. Will, "Burns’ PBS series will change the way you understand America’s path to the present", 789 words, Pittsburg Post-Gazette, 1/8/01

Robert Bianco, "’Jazz’ hits clarion note, but holds it too long", 574 words, USA Today, 1/8/01

John Carman, "Joy, Tragedy & Swing in Glorious ‘Jazz’ ", 1026 words, San Francisco Chronicle, 1/8/01

Charlie McCollum, "The Soundtrack to America", 2258 words, San Jose Mercury News, 1/7/01

Kenneth LaFave, "Pop vs. Jazz Assumption Flaws Series", 1177 words, The Arizona Republic, 1/7/01

Phil Kloer, "Burns’ epic ‘Jazz’ is rhapsody of 20th-century America", 950 words, Atlanta Journal & Constitution, 1/7/01

David Zurawik, "Songs of ourselves", 1792 words, Baltimore Sun, 1/7/01

Bob Blumenthal, "Burns tells story of jazz to widest possible audience", 1899 words, Boston Globe, 1/7/01

Jeff Simon, "Burns reminds America of its musical heritage", 1332 words, Buffalo News, 1/7/01

Lloyd Sachs, "Burns’ ‘Jazz’ gazes lovingly at early days of America’s music", 1634 words; and "Series ignores seminal musicians", 624 words, Chicago Sun-Times, 1/7/01

Bret Saunders, "Lengthy epic’s flaws minor key to pluses", 787 words, Denver Post, 1/7/01

Steve Paul, "Burns’ ambitious documentary hits the right notes, just not all of them", Kansas City Star, 1/7/01

Ben Ratliff, "Fixing, for now, the image of jazz - gets it right, as far as it goes", approx. 6500 words, New York Times, 1/7/01

Martha Bayles, "Watching ‘Jazz’ for its high notes and low", 3548 words, New York Times, 1/7/01

Nate Guidry, "Ken Burns takes on the history of ‘Jazz’ ", 939 words, Pittsburg Post-Gazette, 1/7/01

Dave Walker, "Say what you will about Ken Burns, the man never thinks small", 2536 words, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 1/7/01

Bill Brioux, "Burns’ documentary series explores the world of jazz", 1183 words, Toronto Sun, 1/7/01

Francis Davis, "The new Ken Burns series on jazz is good television but sketchy history", approx. 600 words, Atlantic Monthly, 1/7(?)/01

Tim Page, "Powerful Call of ‘Jazz’ ", 1146 words, The Washington Post, 1/07/01

Marc Fisher, "Underlying Theme of PBS Series On Jazz Is Off-Key", 728 words, The Washington Post, 1/6/01

Gloria Goodale, "Jazz Completes a TV Trilogy on American Life"; and Norman Weinstein, "Jazz CD Set...", approx. 2000 words total, Christian Science Monitor, 1/5/01

Monica Collins, "After 19 hours, we’re not all that jazzed", 869 words, Boston Herald, 1/4/01

Larry Katz, "’Jazz’ hits wrong note with emphasis on talk", 1073 words, Boston Herald, 1/5/01

Gloria Goodale, "’Jazz’ completes a TV trilogy on American life", 786 words, Christian Science Monitor, 1/5/01

Norman Provizer, "Babel Sounds ‘Jazz’ makes sense out of genre’s origins", 1222 words, Denver Rocky Mountain News, 1/4/01

Joanne Weintraub, "Great river of ‘Jazz’ ", 956 words, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1/3/01

Nat Hentoff, "Winter Solstice Tributes", Village Voice, 1/2/01

Charles J. Gans, "Ken Burns' Jazz: A Soundtrack for 20th Century America", The Associated Press State & Local Wire, 1/2/01

Terrence Rafferty, "Louis, Dizzy and the Duke", Gentleman's Quarterly, 1/1/01

"World of Music", 3591 words, Copley News Service, 12/31/00

Whitney Balliett, "Louis, Miles, and the Duke; Ken Burns brings a century of music to PBS", 2240 words, The New Yorker, 12/25/00

Robert P. Laurence, "Still tuning in", 1247 words, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12/17/00

Jay Tolson, "Stormy Weather", U.S. News & World Report, 12/11/00

Noah Robischon, "The 'Jazz' Messenger", Entertainment Weekly, 12/8/00

Bill Kirtz, "Filmmaker’s riff on all that ‘Jazz’ ", 1097 words, Christian Science Monitor, 12/8/00

Lloyd Sachs, "All’s Fair in ‘War’, ‘Baseball’ and ‘Jazz’: Ken Burns tries to make sweet music", 1024 words, Chicago Sun Times, 12/3/00

John Murphy, "The Mainstream Reach", Down Beat, 12/00

Mike Zwerin, "The Escape from Pigpen 'Hijaking an Art Form' Ken Burns’ Jazz", approx. 600 words, International Herald Tribune, 12/(?)/00

David Nasaw, "Big-Band Theory", approx. 1800 words, New York Times Book Review, 11/26/00

J.D. Considine, "Minding the Music of Ken Burns’   ‘Jazz’ ", Baltimore Sun, approx. 1100 words, 11/24/00

Jeff Simon, "America’s Music..Ken Burns Defines Jazz in All its Glory", 2074 words, Buffalo News, 11/12/00

Steve Jones, "America’s Jubilation", 2003 words, USA Today, 10/13/00

Peter Watrous, "Television; Telling America’s Story Through America’s Music", New York Times, 1907 words, 10/1/00

Jim Dwyer, "Their Rightful Place", Daily News (New York), 789 words, 9/5/00

Don Heckman, Cover Story, "Not Exactly All That Jazz; Even at 19 Hours, Ken Burns’ New Opus Couldn’t Cover Everything About the Music, and That is Causing Some Static", Los Angeles Times, 3846 words, 8/6/00

John Carman, "Burns Finds a Good Time to Play Jazz", San Francisco Chronicle, 945 words, 7/17/00




Online Resources

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe (web.lexis-nexis.com/univers) Reprinted articles from numerous newspapers and magazines. An expensive service mainly available via universities, libraries, business accounts, etc. On subject, Ken Burns’ "Jazz", 200+ documents were listed from July 17, 2000 to January 17, 2001.

Mississippi Rag Bulletin Board (www.mississippirag.com)

Hot Jazz Talk (news://lists.landing.com/hotjazztalk)

Google.com (search engine of search engines, "Ken Burns’ ‘Jazz’" had over 14,000 entries, mostly product offerings)

Metacrawler.com (search engine of search engines) "Ken Burns’ ‘Jazz’" had 40+ articles, some relevant and some not

Web search engines not covered by Google and Metacrawler should be tried


   


   
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