Did anyone see the third episode? What did you think? I had to teach.

It's amazing to me how close the arguements as to the "mix" or "gumbo"(yah, I got sick of that one too) parallel informed discussions of Bluegrass Music. If a ten part series on Bluegrass was filmed (fat chance)by a director who claimed to know "very little about it" and the main mouthpiece was say....Alison Krause, or Emmy Lou, or even Ricky Skaggs, the very same points would be debated.

Casual music fans would probably love it, and maybe even become real devotees, but the folks who've made that form of music, a part of their lives for many years would probably be outraged five times per episode.

Wouldn't it have been great had this film been made thirty odd years ago when a few of the originals were still alive. Nothing against Wynton....and you have to agree, he has a VERY unusual trumpet.....but boy would I have loved to hear what folks like Louis, Pops Foster, Dizzy, Benny, Danny Barker, etc. REALLY thought about jazz.

Rick