Nowhere is this more apparent than in jazz — the only art form created by ... Each time we did an interview for the film, whether it was with musicians who played with him years ago or musicians ...

To many, composed music and improvised music seem to be opposites, but in jazz, they merge in a unique ... one that you know from a book or from a film, say, The Wizard of Oz.

He needn’t have worried. The strokes of brilliance in “Leonardo da Vinci” include the use of narrator Keith David, a Burns veteran (“Jazz,” “Muhammad Ali”), and the sonic ...