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Jazz

80 %|Jan 9, 2001|Documentary

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.

Geoffrey C. Ward
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Ken Burns
Creator
Lynn Novick
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Cast

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Keith David
Narrator
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Sidney Bechet
Self (archive footage)
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Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
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Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
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Benny Goodman
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Artie Shaw
Self (archive footage)
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Billie Holiday
Self (archive footage)
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Glenn Miller
Self (archive footage)
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Dave Brubeck
Self (archive footage)
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Art Tatum
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John Coltrane
Self (archive footage)
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Art Blakey
Self (archive footage)
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Charles Mingus
Self (archive footage)
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Miles Davis
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Lester Young
Self (archive footage)