| News Flash Jazz PBS Broadcast Schedule
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January 8 - Gumbo, Beginnings to 1917
January 9 - The Gift, 1917-1924
January 10 - Our Language, 1924-1928
January 15 - The True Welcome, 1929-1935
January 17 - Swing: Pure Pleasure, 1935-1937
January 22 - Swing: The Velocity of Celebration, 1937-1939
January 23 - Dedicated to Chaos, 1940-1945
January 24 - Risk, 1945-1956
January 29 - The Adventure, 1956-1961
January 31 - A Masterpiece Midnight, 1961-Present
Jazz Documentary will have a Coffee Table Book, CDs, and
DVDs released around it.
Columbia Records' Legacy imprint and Verve Records are joining forces to
release a far-reaching overview in conjunction with Ken Burns' PBS documentary 'Jazz.' On
Nov. 7, Columbia Legacy and Verve will release a five-CD box set companion titled 'Ken
Burns Jazz: The Story of American Music' in addition to 22 individual artist discs. There
will also be a single disc overview of the 10-episode series, which will air beginning
Jan. 8. A marketing plan for the sets is still in the works. Before
the series airs, Knopf will publish a coffee-table book of photographs from the series. After
its airing, Warner Home Video will release it on DVD.
Jazz Documentary Will Air 1-8-2001
A Jazz documentary will be the third epic documentary in Ken Burns'
trilogy of films covering American society. With the first two having been The
Civil War and Baseball.
Ken Burn's New Documentary Announced: Mark Twain
According to a interview done with
Dayton Duncun by Jim Zwick, Mining Co. Guide to Mark Twain, Ken Burn's plans to film a
documentary on the life of Mark Twain to be aired sometime in 2000 or 2001 on PBS.
Dayton Duncun, Ken Burn's coproducer, also indicated that a documentary on the lives of
the suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, would be shown in 1999.
While rumors of a potential documentary on Mark Twain's life have been
circulating for years, the Duncun interview is thought to be the first public interview on
the film by someone actually involved in the project. |
