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Article: Thelonius Monk on a postage stamp?(Features)(Arts & Leisure)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 8, 2000
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Prepare to get all jazzed up. A new TV series by America's popular historian, Ken Burns, is just a month away on PBS (see our interview with Burns, page 15). A related five-CD boxed set of music from the series, "Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music," is on sale. So is a companion book, "Jazz: A History of America's Music," by Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward.
These days I mail my bills (and those rare personal letters) using my favorite stamps showing the pictures of old-time baseball players. It's hard to imagine the US Postal Service would have issued that series without Burns's monumental TV project "Baseball" (1994) first reigniting interest in the ...