Jazz, the musician Matt Glaser opines at one point in Ken Burns’s reverent new documentary film Jazz, "is the ultimate temporal art form. It’s about the human experience of time." Time-a lot of it-is certainly at issue in the latest Burns-directed opus that PBS broadsides this month. The ten-part film (it started January 8) racks up a nearly nineteen-hour run (...)
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