This is really not a very good film, and wow is it terribly boring. I mean, really? What can I say but way too much Louis Armstrong and way too much Wynton Marsalis. Who died and made him Jazz King anyway? Why does anyone care what he says? He actually said that Armstrong was the greatest musical mind since Bach! Umm, does Marsalis know that after the baroque period of music came the classical period dominated by two small individuals named Beethoven and Mozart. So Armstrong is not only one of of the greatest musical minds in history, Bach was too!
10 episodes of Jazz, and the last segment starts in 1962. That fact right there tells you how much of a mess this series is about Jazz. They compared Cecil Taylor to Beethoven, then they go back to talking about Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong, AGAIN! Then you have to listen to Marsalis! Ughh! Why?? How could someone possibly screw this easy documentary up so bad? Jazz music is a wonderful, wonderful form of music, and sadly this film series is awful and largely thanks to Wynton Marsalis.
10 episodes of Jazz, and the last segment starts in 1962. That fact right there tells you how much of a mess this series is about Jazz. They compared Cecil Taylor to Beethoven, then they go back to talking about Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong, AGAIN! Then you have to listen to Marsalis! Ughh! Why?? How could someone possibly screw this easy documentary up so bad? Jazz music is a wonderful, wonderful form of music, and sadly this film series is awful and largely thanks to Wynton Marsalis.