Ken Burns is a dillbag but I’m still recommending this next:

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Ken Burns Jazz: Duke Ellington
Album by Duke Eillington and His Orchestra

Jelly Roll Morton

This is as deep into origins as this list is going to go.

You get a lot of foundation without much effort. Keep in mind this isn’t a history lesson.

What's wrong with Ken Burns?

If you’re going to get all those resources to make a supposedly definitive documentary on jazz it is your responsibility to understand that free jazz is the ultimate artistic conclusion that jazz was building to from the beginning. Burns never knew **** at all about jazz and uses Wynton and Branford and some bull**** conservative critics as his guideposts.

Not only is free jazz not properly represented but Cecil Taylor is in particular disrespected. Idgaf what the Marsalis brothers think. I often say musicians are the last people you should ask about music because they always have these creative goggles on. Not every musician but in general.

But anyway in the documentary Branford calls Cecil’s music “self indulgent bulls hit” and then some critic concurs.

The f ucking thing about it is Cecil Taylor is (was) the exact opposite. His music, especially live is the most giving and self sacrificing music ever made. Ever. No one ever gave more.

When you make a documentary about jazz you make it clear that Cecil Taylor stands on TOP of the f ucking mountain. Disrespecting Cecil Taylor shows the same lack of understanding as disrespecting Duke Ellington would. So that’s why f uck Ken Burns.

It disgusts me that Cecil probably watched that garbage. PBS and all of them should be embarrassed and ashamed.

ok

I know mother****ers don’t be keeping up so dig

What I’m doing here is presenting a recommended listening guide to get your ****ing jazz on

So scroll back to Kind of Blue and start the program

Next up

I have this on vinyl. Bought it when I was in college. If instead of embarking on this whole project I just said listen to this you’d pretty well covered. It might be hard to imagine what this was like back before the internet. A collection like this was indispensable.

Check it out and listen

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_...f_Classic_Jazz

Damn.