PBS special turns spotlight on jazz
Archived article from Dec 15, 2000
By Carla Capizzi
Award-winning documentary-maker Ken Burns and the Institute of Jazz Studies have come together for an upcoming PBS program, "Jazz," a 10-part series that will begin airing Jan. 8.
Burns -- whose past themes include the Civil War and baseball -- mined the rich resources of the institute, the most extensive jazz archives in the world. He also relied upon a resource unique to the jazz institute: its director, Dan Morgenstern, a world-renowned jazz historian.
Burns and his crew spent many hours at the institute, part of the Dana Library on the Newark campus, and the filmmaker relied heavily on Morgenstern's expertise. "He answered every question, read every script and guided us on matters large and small, from the very beginning of the project to the last day of editing," Burns said. In addition to his role as one of the major consultants to the film, Morgenstern is interviewed on camera in the seventh episode of the nearly 18-hour documentary.
Morgenstern also contributed a chapter to "Jazz" (Alfred A. Knopf), the companion volume to the series.
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