Jazz(2001)

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  • Documentary

Overview

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.

Cast

  • Keith David

    Keith David

    Narrator (voice)

  • Louis Armstrong

    Louis Armstrong

    Self (archive footage)

  • Duke Ellington

    Duke Ellington

    Self (archive footage)

  • Benny Goodman

    Benny Goodman

    Self (archive footage)

  • Artie Shaw

    Artie Shaw

    Self (archive footage)

  • Billie Holiday

    Billie Holiday

    Self (archive footage)

  • Glenn Miller

    Glenn Miller

    Self (archive footage)

  • Dave Brubeck

    Dave Brubeck

    Self (archive footage)

  • John Coltrane

    John Coltrane

    Self (archive footage)

  • Art Blakey

    Art Blakey

    Self (archive footage)

  • Charles Mingus

    Charles Mingus

    Self (archive footage)

  • Wynton Marsalis

    Wynton Marsalis

    Self

  • Miles Davis

    Miles Davis

    Self (archive footage)

  • Stanley Crouch

    Stanley Crouch

    Self

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Status

Ended

Seasons

1

Episodes

10

Last Air Date

Jan 31, 2001

Network

PBS

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