Nevertheless, Ken Burns has done the public a great service through his latest project. Six years in the making, his documentary explores the early development of jazz. The wordless vocals of Baby Cox ...

, is an artistic triumph packed with expert insight, terrific visuals and fantastic music. Now, if he can just get a few million people to watch it. Even Burns, a huge jazz enthusiast, would admit ...

But improvisation is not the be all and end all of jazz. Composers such as Duke Ellington and Eddie Sauter wrote, on occasion, jazz compositions practically devoid of improvisation. But the real ...

A subset of the five-CD package, Ken Burns’ single-CD volume wraps it all up in 75 minutes. This 20-song compilation serves to introduce jazz, from early vocal and trumpet work by Louis Armstrong to ...

But Ken Burns ... Dixieland Jazz Band; James P. Johnson; King Oliver?s Creole Jazz Band; Bessie Smith; Jelly Roll Morton; Clarence Williams? Blue Five; Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five; Louis ...

But it is getting more attention these days in anticipation of next month's broadcast of filmmaker Ken Burns' most ambitious ... Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie ...

Ken Burns Jazz is not about music. It's about injustice ... Frankie Trumbauer And His Orchestra, Duke Ellington And His Orchestra, Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra, Benny Goodman And His Orchestra ...