Ken Burns' mammoth new TV series, Jazz, is an artistic triumph packed with expert insight, terrific visuals and fantastic music. Now, if he can just get a few million people to watch it. Even Burns, a ...

Ken Burns' epic 10-episode "Jazz" ended Wednesday. Its ratings didn't light up the heavens but its impact was nothing if not massive. The greatest film ever made about one of the greatest of ...

The seed for Ken Burns' 10-episode, 19-hour documentary "Jazz" was planted back in 1991 when jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis came up to the filmmaker after a speech at an awards dinner at the ...

The late composer, musician and bandleader Duke Ellington once said, ''I contend that the Negro is the creative voice of America, IS creative America, and it was a happy day when the first unhappy ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns has examined some of the most defining moments of American history. He's delved into the Civil War, dissected America's response to the Holocaust and chronicled the evolution of ...