and having explored our national pastime and its exquisite lessons in our series on Baseball, we have over the last several years struggled to understand the utterly American art form of jazz.

One was a filmmaker, the other a scholarly adviser (who sometimes appeared on camera), and the two became close friends, ...

Documentarian and New Hampshire resident Ken Burns is almost ready to release his new series, a six-part, 12 hour show on the ...

Mr. Burns himself, introducing a recent performance in New York of Caroline Shaw’s exhilarating score (performed, as in the series ... last word on a subject (“Jazz,” “Baseball ...

Ken Burns has ... Bridge in 1981, Burns has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War; Baseball; Jazz; The Statue of ...