Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense, the weekly television series that's been airing on The Documentary Channel in the US since April 20, 2009, comes to a close with Episode Four: Everything ...

Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - World Premiere . By Eric Benson April 22, 2009 View read count. The end of the Jazz Wars means the "J-word" has lost much of its politically divisive power ...

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One of the most significant concepts spoken in the documentary ICONS AMONG US regards how a musician learning to play jazz is nothing more than that musician discovering the answer to the question who ...

Yet that broad snapshot of an entire genre, loosely anchored in its classic 1940s and ’50s period, is just part of what jazz is — or, in many ways, was. Filmmakers Michael Rivoira, Lars Larson and ...

Recently I spent some time watching a new documentary film series on modern jazz titled Icons Among Us: Jazz In The Present Tense. The series — which aired on The Documentary Channel and is now ma ...

And that's obviously what Icons Among Us sets out do -- to document these jazz musicians in the moment and capture their creativity and their evolution and their experiences making jazz right now.

All the interviews were conducted over the phone and recorded on my computer. In this entry in the series, I speak with John Comerford, producer of the in-depth and engaging jazz documentary Icons ...