Jazz

Jazz

2001
★★★★☆ 7.5/10
📺 1 Season
🎬 10 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 120 min/episode
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.

Where to Watch (US)

Stream

PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel
Thirteen
WETA+

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Seasons

Season 1
2001 • 10 Episodes
"Gumbo" traces the roots of jazz from the 1800s to 1917. The viewer will catch glimpses of Jelly Roll Morton, who erroneously claimed to have invented jazz, and the tragic, though influential, figure of trumpeter Buddy Bolden.

Crew

Writer
Geoffrey C. Ward
Producer
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick

Network

PBS

Production

PBS, Florentine Films, WETA, BBC

Keywords

jazzjazz singer or musician