Jazz 2001
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.
Episodes
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S1·E1 Gumbo: Beginnings to 1917"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…
S1·E2 The Gift: 1917-1924How can one explain the genius of a Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington? Blessed with skill and talent far exceeding their peers, one can only define what they possess as…
S1·E3 Our Language: 1924 -1929Colorful characters like the tragic Bix Beiderbecke, powerhouse Bessie Smith, and the braggart Jelly Roll Morton, make the study of jazz fascinating. Perhaps most…
S1·E4 The True Welcome: 1929-1934"The True Welcome" continues many of the stories begun in Episode 3, following several troubling years for Louis Armstrong (who was arrested for marijuana possession),…
S1·E5 Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-19371935 was the year that swing became the most popular music in the country and that the king of swing, Benny Goodman, became a matinee idol. Americans, stifled by the…
S1·E6 Swing: The Velocity of Celebration - 1937-1939Swing would be reacquainted with its blues roots by way of Kansas City, when Count Basie and the Barons of Rhythm brought their hot sound to the Big Apple. Basie would…
S1·E7 Dedicated to Chaos: 1940-1945"Dedicated to Chaos" finds jazz musicians teetering on the brink of the modern era, fighting against the straightjacket of clichéd, big band arrangements. The revolution…
S1·E8 Risk: 1945-1955The bop revolution’s influence would spread to other musicians, but unlike swing, it would never become a popular music. The rapid-fire solos and complicated chord…
S1·E9 The Adventure: 1956-1960Critics who had believed that Charlie Parker was "too much" musically, could not have welcomed the arrival of Ornette Coleman. Coleman and John Coltrane would edge jazz…
S1·E10 A Masterpiece by Midnight: 1960 to the PresentObviously Ken Burns knows that he can’t fit the last thirty-nine years of jazz history onto two hours of video tape, so from the outset, that shouldn’t be expected.…Cast
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Sidney Bechet
Self (archive footage)
Crew
- Writers
- Geoffrey C. Ward
- Producers
- Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
Details
- First air date
- Jan 9, 2001
- Last air date
- Jan 31, 2001
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 10
- Episode runtime
- 120 min
- Network
- PBS
- Status
- Ended
- Studios
- PBS, Florentine Films, WETA, BBC
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language
- English
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