Any analysis of Jazz must simply provide a more complete documentation of the European/Anglo Irish component. Yes, absolutely, Jazz is much more than the sum of its parts and black folk were mainly responsible for sewing it all together but, when you ask african american folk as Burns does- "Who provided the chunks" they have failed to account for the Anglo Irish European ones yet without them Jazz would be severely tattered as a whole suite.

I think the rule for inclusion in a documentary should be that if without accounting for the part the whole would be compromised then it should be included. Failure to provide adequate coverage of this component removes a major significant part of the whole.

It is true that the anglo Irish european component is primairly important as a building block however, I believe that its importance re-surfaces in the background as this building block- (basic structural configurations common to both traditions)- articulates with white/european/anglo Irish culture so as to allow members of those other cultures to accept and work with it. A totally african Jazz might not have been so easy to digest and process.

Another aspect of the presentation was interesting and that was the feeling that the limitations of the african american community - the low life situations - served as a mould for their particular music. Surely, however, Irish americans had their own low life experiences and their own oppressive poverty but they did not produce Jazz.

Conrad