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Posted By: barrysloate

I think there are many technically proficient musicians today but the music is lacking the freshness of the ground breakers of the 40's and 50's- Bird, Monk, Miles, Mingus, etc. Every artform has its golden age and if you are a fan of rock music no other period holds a candle to the years 1964-69. That was rock's golden age and jazz will always have great players but may no longer have great ideas.
Of course Ken Burns left things out and I would have preferred to see more about the great music of the fifties and a little less on the thirties (no harm meant to Duke and Louis) but I guess everyone has their personal preferences and in the end it was the greatest documentary on jazz there has ever been.