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Jazz
Documentary
January 9, 2001 – January 31, 2001 (began 25 years ago)
2h / episode
7.5/10
Ended
1 Season
10 Episodes
PBS
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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.

Keith David
Keith David

Keith David

Narrator (voice)

Ages 44

10 eps
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Self (archive footage)

Ages 99

10 eps
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington

Self (archive footage)

Ages 101

10 eps
Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman

Self (archive footage)

Ages 91

10 eps
Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw

Artie Shaw

Self (archive footage)

Ages 90

10 eps
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday

Self (archive footage)

Ages 85

10 eps
Glenn Miller
Glenn Miller

Glenn Miller

Self (archive footage)

Ages 96

10 eps
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck

Self (archive footage)

Ages 80

10 eps
Art Tatum
Art Tatum

Art Tatum

Self (archive footage)

Ages 91

10 eps
John Coltrane
John Coltrane

John Coltrane

Self (archive footage)

Ages 74

10 eps
Art Blakey
Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Self (archive footage)

Ages 81

10 eps
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus

Self (archive footage)

Ages 78

10 eps
Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Davis

Self (archive footage)

Ages 74

10 eps
Lester Young
Lester Young

Lester Young

Self (archive footage)

Ages 91

10 eps