Review of Jazz

Overall, as a noob to jazz and not really having a background in it or music training, I enjoyed this documentary and learned a lot about jazz. I was, however, a bit disappointed that there was absolutely no mention of Vince Guaraldi. Granted, in the overall scheme of things, he was never that big, except for the fact that he was only the guy who scored nearly all of the Peanuts specials, including A Charlie Brown Christmas - the 2nd best-selling jazz album of all time next to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. "Linus and Lucy" has got to be one of THE most recognizable jazz tunes ever. It brought a lot of non-jazz enthusiasts to jazz, including me. And outside of Peanuts, he composed some really sweet-sounding tunes, like "Cast Your Fate to the Wind". Anyway, I know this doc was pretty long as it was, but they should have at least had a short blurb about him. Outside of Dave Brubeck, there was hardly anything mentioned about West Coast/Cool Jazz.

Also, towards the end I expected at least some mention of the formation of the annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (Jazzfest). Nothing mentioned about that.