
Jazz
Documentary·2001·1 Seasons
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.
Starring: Keith David,Sidney Bechet,Louis Armstrong,Duke Ellington
Episodes
Miniseries
S01 | E01
Gumbo: Beginnings to 1917
2001-01-09

S01 | E02
The Gift: 1917-1924
2001-01-09

S01 | E03
Our Language: 1924 -1929
2001-01-10

S01 | E04
The True Welcome: 1929-1934
2001-01-15

S01 | E05
Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-1937
2001-01-17

S01 | E06
Swing: The Velocity of Celebration - 1937-1939
2001-01-22

S01 | E07
Dedicated to Chaos: 1940-1945
2001-01-23

S01 | E08
Risk: 1945-1955
2001-01-24

S01 | E09
The Adventure: 1956-1960
2001-01-29

S01 | E10
A Masterpiece by Midnight: 1960 to the Present
2001-01-31
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)

Charles Mingus
Self (archive footage)

Wynton Marsalis
Self





