[Dixielandjazz] Chrismas Presents

[Mike Durham]

Nope, he be a sort of greyish-pink, like most of us white folks

Mike D.

>From: "WILLIAM HORTON" <WILLIAMHORTON at peoplepc.com>
>To: "DJML" <Dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Chrismas Presents
>Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:40:05 -0800
>
>I received two jazzy Christmas presents.  One was a foot-high Santa with
>black shades and a gold tenor sax, playing a jazzy "Santa Claus Is Coming 
>To
>Town" while he jukes around realistically.  Great!!
>
>The second was about a 5-pound copy of "Jazz", the companion book of the 
>Ken
>Burns PBS television series of that name.
>
>The book was a welcomed gift, although I'm not a Ken Burns fan.  He has
>produced three big television series:  Baseball, The Civil War, and Jazz.
>Baseball, like chess, is fun to play but too slow and boring to watch, so I
>skipped that one.  I considered The Civil War series interesting, but 
>poorly
>edited and produced.  I watched the Jazz series, but was turned off by its
>undue emphasis on race.
>
>I haven't gotten far into the book, but (naturally, I guess) it appears to
>reflect the same racial bias as the TV series.  For example, of the 16
>circled pictures on the covers, 15 are "Black," and in the 17 fine-print
>index pages, Turk Murphy rates only a single reference!
>
>I know Burns was greatly under the influence of Wynton Marsalis during
>production of the Jazz series, but (idle curiosity) is Burns, himself,
>Black?
>
>Bill Horton
>
>
>
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