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Jazz (2001)

First aired January 9, 20012h/ep1 season · 10 epsEnded
7.5

30 votes

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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.

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Keith David

Keith David

Narrator (voice)

Sidney Bechet

Sidney Bechet

Self (archive footage)

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)

Art Tatum

Art Tatum

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)

Lester Young

Lester Young

Self (archive footage)

Seasons

Status

Ended

Language

English

Type

Miniseries

Last Air Date

January 31, 2001

Networks

PBS

Production

PBSFlorentine FilmsWETABBC

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