Happy New Year! This week, our blogger Tegan is finishing up a project she started in 2013 – reviewing all ten episodes of the Ken Burns series JAZZ. It’s hard to write about the tenth and final episode of JAZZ because it shares so many flaws with the ninth episode: it covers too long a…
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Previous episodes of Ken Burns’s JAZZ showed how jazz symbolized hope, relief, or escape for Americans during the Great Depression, but the seventh episode, “Dedicated to Chaos” shows jazz as a symbol of something else during the Second World War: defiance. This is one episode that is self-contained enough and good enough that I recommend…
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It seems natural to follow last week’s post about Women in Jazz Day in New York and the many women in jazz festivals out there with a post on the fifth and sixth episodes of Ken Burns’ film JAZZ. For the first time in the series, these episodes give us biographies of influential women in…
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