That smirking little line about AEC was about the most obnoxious thing in the series next to the jab at CT.
As it is, I think the film is alright, if simplistic, up to bebop. Everything after that is a blur.
I got the book version as a gift, and I have to say it's leagues better than the series. It has tons of great photos and goes some places that I think we all wish the show did, which is frustrating. There are fine essays included by Early (on Kenton, Jarrett, and whiteness), Giddins (on the avant garde-- I know, but it's decent), and Crouch (on the NYC scene of the 70s and 80s), among a few others on early jazz whose subjects i don't recall but which are interesting Why they relegated this stuff to the book I'll never know. Though, of course, I do know exactly why.