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JEWISH JAZZ ARTISTS AND BEHIND-THE-SCENES FILMMAKERS
PLAY PART IN KEN BURNS' LONG-AWAITED DOCUMENTARY SERIES.

BILL CARROLL

Special to the Jewish News

azz•music fans have a real treat in
store certain to help cure the post-
holiday winter doldrums. Jazz, a
monumental 10-part, nearly 19-
hour documentary film on PBS television
exploring one of America's greatest music
forms, is the third part of a trilogy on
American life by master documentary film-
maker Ken Burns. It follows his previous
two triumphs The Civil War and Baseball.
If the entire series is anything like the
excerpts seen in a preview version, viewers
will be challenged to keep their feet and
hands still as they wade through 10 nights of
this exciting history on the magic of jazz.
The series begins Monday, Jan. 8, and
installments run through Wednesday, Jan.
31, on WTVS-Channel 56.
Sponsored by General Motors, Jazz, which
took almost six years to complete, contains 75
interviews, more than 500 pieces of music,
2,400 still photos and more than 2,000 archival
film clips — many rare and never before seen.
The music is especially abundant, including full
performances of some famous jazz tunes, not
just fragments to decorate the film.

Behind The Scenes

Several Jewish people played instrumental roles
in the production of Jazz.
"Making Jazz was like going from three
dimensions involving narration, footage and
interviews to four because of the importance of
the music," explained Lynn Novick, producer of
the series with Burns, who also directed it.
"The narrative style was dictated by the

music. We had to have the sound up front for
the images and narration to accent the music
rather than the other way around."
Novick has always been "proud of my Jewish
heritage" while growing up in New York, then
graduating magna cum laude from Yale
University in 1983 with a degree in American
studies. She worked on various documentary
films for several years, then collaborated with
Burns on The Civil War and Baseball, winning
an Emmy Award for the latter. The duo won a
Peabody Award for a biographical film on
architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
She credits co-producer Peter Miller, who
also is Jewish, with doing most of the painstak-
ing work of sorting out the photos and archival
clips, then negotiating with the music compa-

Above:
The Ben Pollack
Band, 1929: Benny
Goodman, who went
on to become the first
great clarinetist in the
history of jazz, learned
to play the instrument
at a local synagogue,
then helped support
the family after his
father diech working at
dance halls, then join-
ing drummer Ben
Pollack's band. In this
photo, Goodman is
fifth from the right.