Thanks to those who wrote in offering to help with my jazz angst. John pointed me to this article by Francis Davis critiquing Burns' jazz documentary. It appears Wynton Marsalis isn't the only dork given too much air-time:

"Annoying as Marsalis can be, though, he takes a back seat to the preening Matt Glaser, a violinist who performed on the soundtracks of The Civil War and Baseball and who turns up every so often to share an insight on, say, [Louis] Armstrong's relationship to the space-time continuum. Glaser sounds like one of those guys you overhear trying to impress their dates in jazz clubs, only it's us he's trying to score with. "

Davis's final verdict on Jazz? Flawed on many levels but ultimately good for the music. Can't disagree with that. I mean, the Jazz has got me thinking of where I stand on the music and the show hasn't even aired yet...