Jazz
Documentary
★ 7.5/1020011 Season
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.
Status
Ended
Language
English
First Aired
Jan 9, 2001
Last Aired
Jan 31, 2001
Seasons
1
Episodes
10
Status
Ended
Language
English
First Aired
Jan 9, 2001
Last Aired
Jan 31, 2001
Seasons
1
Episodes
10
Episodes
Cast
Keith David
Narrator (voice)
Sidney Bechet
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
Miles Davis
Self (archive footage)
Lester Young
Self (archive footage)
Stanley Crouch
Self
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