Jazz
TV
Type
2001
Year
1 Season
Seasons
★ 7.5
Rating
Documentary
Genre
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.
Where to watch
Episodes
1. Gumbo: Beginnings to 1917
2. The Gift: 1917-1924
3. Our Language: 1924 -1929
4. The True Welcome: 1929-1934
5. Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-1937
6. Swing: The Velocity of Celebration - 1937-1939
7. Dedicated to Chaos: 1940-1945
8. Risk: 1945-1955
9. The Adventure: 1956-1960
10. A Masterpiece by Midnight: 1960 to the Present
Cast
Keith David
Narrator (voice)
Sidney Bechet
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Benny Goodman
Self (archive footage)
Artie Shaw
Self (archive footage)
Billie Holiday
Self (archive footage)
Glenn Miller
Self (archive footage)
Dave Brubeck
Self (archive footage)
Art Tatum
Self (archive footage)
John Coltrane
Self (archive footage)
Art Blakey
Self (archive footage)