Jazz

Jazz (2001)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • First Air Date: 2001-01-09
  • Last Air Date: 2001-01-31
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 10
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 120 min.
  • Network: PBS
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Summary

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.

  • Keywords: jazz, jazz singer or musician
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    Jazz Trailer

    Jazz Seasons

    Season 0

    First Air Date:
    13 Episodes

    Season 1

    First Air Date: 2001-01-09
    10 Episodes

    Jazz Episodes

    Title Air Date Duration
    Season 1Episode 1Gumbo, Beginnings to 1917115 min
    Season 1Episode 2The Gift, 1917 - 1924115 min
    Season 1Episode 3Our Language, 1924 - 1929115 min
    Season 1Episode 4The True Welcome, 1929 - 1935115 min
    Season 1Episode 5Swing: Pure Pleasure, 1935 - 1937115 min
    Season 1Episode 6Swing: The Velocity of Celebration, 1937 - 1939115 min
    Season 1Episode 7Dedicated to Chaos, 1943 - 1945115 min
    Season 1Episode 8Risk, 1945 - 1949115 min
    Season 1Episode 9The Adventure, 1956 - 1960115 min
    Season 1Episode 10A Masterpiece by Midnight, 1960 to the Present115 min
    • Keith David

      as Narrator
    • Sidney Bechet

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Louis Armstrong

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Duke Ellington

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Benny Goodman

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Artie Shaw

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Billie Holiday

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Glenn Miller

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Dave Brubeck

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Art Tatum

      as Self (archive footage)
    • John Coltrane

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Art Blakey

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Charles Mingus

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Wynton Marsalis

      as Self
    • Miles Davis

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Lester Young

      as Self (archive footage)
    Production Lynn Novick Producer
    Production Ken Burns Producer
    Writing Geoffrey C. Ward Writer

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