from All About Jazz.com:
When the first episode of Icons Among Us debuted on the Documentary Channel in April, most reviewers quickly contrasted it with the last major jazz documentary: Ken Burns’s Jazz. That film infamously slighted the music’s modern age, cramming the last forty years of jazz history into its final one-hour episode. (In contrast, Burns dedicated a full two hours to the five years from 1935 through 1939.) Icons Among Us came across as a corrective, a proudly contemporary chronicle that dedicated its entire running time to championing today’s musicians and today’s scene. It’s not that Icons ignores history, but it treats past as prologue, opting for Art Kane’s wide lens on the present.
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