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Jazz

Jazz

2001 ★ 7.5 1 Seasons Documentary

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Overview

Jazz is a ten part series that explores the evolution – and the genius – of America’s greatest original art form, focusing on the extraordinary men and women who could do something remarkable – create art on the spot. Jazz celebrates their profoundly enduring, endlessly varied, and infinitely alluring music in the context of the complicated country that gave birth to and influenced it, and was in turn transformed by it.

Episodes

Seasons 1

Seasons 1

Gumbo: Beginnings to 1917

S01E01 2001-01-09

Gumbo: Beginnings to 1917

"Gumbo" traces the roots of jazz from the 1800s to 1917. The viewer will catch glimpses of Jelly Ro...

The Gift: 1917-1924

S01E02 2001-01-09

The Gift: 1917-1924

How can one explain the genius of a Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington? Blessed with skill and talen...

Our Language: 1924 -1929

S01E03 2001-01-10

Our Language: 1924 -1929

Colorful characters like the tragic Bix Beiderbecke, powerhouse Bessie Smith, and the braggart Jell...

The True Welcome: 1929-1934

S01E04 2001-01-15

The True Welcome: 1929-1934

"The True Welcome" continues many of the stories begun in Episode 3, following several troubling ye...

Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-1937

S01E05 2001-01-17

Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-1937

1935 was the year that swing became the most popular music in the country and that the king of swin...

Swing: The Velocity of Celebration - 1937-1939

S01E06 2001-01-22

Swing: The Velocity of Celebration - 1937-1939

Swing would be reacquainted with its blues roots by way of Kansas City, when Count Basie and the Ba...

Dedicated to Chaos: 1940-1945

S01E07 2001-01-23

Dedicated to Chaos: 1940-1945

"Dedicated to Chaos" finds jazz musicians teetering on the brink of the modern era, fighting agains...

Risk: 1945-1955

S01E08 2001-01-24

Risk: 1945-1955

The bop revolution’s influence would spread to other musicians, but unlike swing, it would never be...

The Adventure: 1956-1960

S01E09 2001-01-29

The Adventure: 1956-1960

Critics who had believed that Charlie Parker was "too much" musically, could not have welcomed the...

A Masterpiece by Midnight: 1960 to the Present

S01E10 2001-01-31

A Masterpiece by Midnight: 1960 to the Present

Obviously Ken Burns knows that he can’t fit the last thirty-nine years of jazz history onto two hou...

Cast

Keith David

Keith David

Narrator (voice)

Sidney Bechet

Sidney Bechet

Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Self (archive footage)

Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington

Self (archive footage)

Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman

Self (archive footage)

Artie Shaw

Self (archive footage)

Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday

Self (archive footage)

Glenn Miller

Glenn Miller

Self (archive footage)

Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck

Self (archive footage)

Art Tatum

Self (archive footage)

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