As a history of jazz, it is hardly comprehensive. Mr. Burns seems obsessed with Louis Armstrong; even when dscussing the bop era, Armtrong pops up again. Also, as one commentator has pointed out below, for Burns jazz=black. Most great white jazz players are given short shrift with exceptions for Benny Godman and Tommy Dorsey, and of all people, Ted Heath. The Herman-Kenton era is brushed aside with a sentence and many great white trumpet players aren't even methioned such as Ziggy Elman, Sonny Berman, Bill Chase, etc. What about trombonists Bill Harris, J.J. Johnson and Kai Windig?The claim made by one that jazz is strictly an Afro-American music form is nonsense at least by today's standards.