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But unlike the short-trousered, bell-laden, Sealed-Knotters-in-the-throes-of-a-grand-mal brigade (for whom no mockery is too great), it's only the pretentious periphery of jazz that deserves contempt, not the music, which (in the programme's own words) 'expresses the hope of a free people who hunger for a better life'. Like Morris dancers, jazz buffs have been subjected to a good deal of ridicule in recent years. the utterly insecure jazz establishment who have obscured jazz from the rest of us'.

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Indeed, his principal motivation in making the series was to wrest this glorious music back from the people he contemptuously dismisses as 'the jazzerati. This definitive US series (made in cooperation with the BBC) doubled sales of jazz recordings in America in the months following its first broadcast, and if it does the same here, it will have amply fulfilled the ambition of historian and filmmaker Ken Burns. He's one of the many great musicians from the last century who have featured in BBC2's nightly instalments of Jazz, and the astounding footage we've seen during the past fortnight has been so vibrant and vital that most of today's players seem moribund and feeble in comparison. However, my system doesn't always work because Erroll Garner has been dead for more than 20 years, and he can still knock spots off me in the piano department. Ego fully bolstered, with no effort whatsoever on my part. No matter how good they were in their prime, all I have to do is wait until they've given up the breathing habit and - hey presto - I'm a better singer than Frank 'Ol' Blue Lips' Sinatra, a better Shakespearean actor than Laurence 'not to be' Olivier, and a better entrepreneur than Victor 'I was so impressed by Death, I bought it' Kiam. He was spot on when he quipped, 'It's not enough that I should succeed, all others must fail', and I've always lived by his maxim, although I'm only careful to judge my own standards against those of the dead.

You have to admire Attila the Hun, a man who could start a fight in an empty room.