Do you have your own opinion about Ken Burns’ movies about jazz history? Here is one by Chris Kelsey: “Eight years or how­ever long its been since that mutha uckin’ abom­i­na­tion known as Ken Burns’ Jazz first hit the air­waves, I finally watched the noto­ri­ous “Episode 10: A Mas­tur­ba­tion … I mean, A Mas­ter­piece by Mid­night,” wherein Burns and his jolly crew of self-serving revi­sion­ist idiots Bran­ford, Crouch and Cus­cuna, et al tell the bogus tale of how jazz was mur­dered in the ‘60s and ‘70s by craven fusioneers and face-painted avant-gardists, and how it was res­ur­rected by … well, by impli­ca­tion, the self-serving revi­sion­ist idiots them­selves, and by direct attri­bu­tion, their faux folksy fab­u­list trumpet-playing sock pup­pet, Wyn­ton Lear­son Marsalis.” Read his full shaking but mostly true article “It’s Never Too Late to Have Your Soul Crushed by Some Guy with a Huge Grant From General Motors (Wait, GM Went Bankrupt? It was Probably Cecil Taylor’s Fault)”.

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