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Jazz
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.
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1
Gumbo: Beginnings to 1917
"Gumbo" traces the roots of jazz from the 1800s to 1917. The viewer will catch glimpses of Jelly Roll Morton, who errone…
2
The Gift: 1917-1924
How can one explain the genius of a Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington? Blessed with skill and talent far exceeding their…
3
Our Language: 1924 -1929
Colorful characters like the tragic Bix Beiderbecke, powerhouse Bessie Smith, and the braggart Jelly Roll Morton, make t…
4
The True Welcome: 1929-1934
"The True Welcome" continues many of the stories begun in Episode 3, following several troubling years for Louis Armstro…
5
Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-1937
1935 was the year that swing became the most popular music in the country and that the king of swing, Benny Goodman, bec…
6
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 Barons of Rhythm brough…
7
Dedicated to Chaos: 1940-1945
"Dedicated to Chaos" finds jazz musicians teetering on the brink of the modern era, fighting against the straightjacket …
8
Risk: 1945-1955
The bop revolution’s influence would spread to other musicians, but unlike swing, it would never become a popular music.…
9
The Adventure: 1956-1960
Critics who had believed that Charlie Parker was "too much" musically, could not have welcomed the arrival of Ornette Co…
10
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 hours of video tape, so …
