Thursday, March 10, 2011

Ken Burns' Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)

Watched this the other week in preparation for the Jack DeJohnette show. It was another lengthy Burns effort, in much the same vein as the "Jazz" series. Indeed, so similar was the feel (same narrator, some of the same "talking heads", similar themes of race in early 20th century America -- even a Jazzy soundtrack by Wynton Marsalis), that it would have taken a while to realize it wasn't another episode of the Jazz series.


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