Filmmaker Magazine has a “BEST OF 2021” for articles. Steve Dollar’s interview with Director Tom Surgal was one of their popular articles. Perhaps Jimmy Fallon’s clueless attack on Peter Brotzmann’s Nipples had something to do with it?
“6. “…The Parts That Were Left out of the Ken Burns Documentary”: Tom Surgal on the “Historical Corrective” That is His Free Jazz Documentary, Fire Music. The critical challenge of Tom Surgal’s Fire Music (he calls his free jazz documentary “the parts that were left out of the Ken Burns documentary [the 2001 10-part PBS series]) plus the tie-in of a bit of release-week cultural controversy (Jimmy Fallon’s stupid put-down of pioneering saxophonist Peter Brotzmann) is what made, undoubtedly, Steve Dollar’s strong interview with Surgall one of our most-read posts of the year.”
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