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Jazz

8.0 10 Eps Documentary   2001
PBS   Florentine Films   WETA   BBC  

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.

  

Seasons (1)

Miniseries

Miniseries

10 Episodes

Casts of Miniseries

Keith David

as Narrator (voice)

Sidney Bechet

as Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

as Self (archive footage)

Duke Ellington

as Self (archive footage)

Benny Goodman

as Self (archive footage)

Artie Shaw

as Self (archive footage)

Billie Holiday

as Self (archive footage)

Glenn Miller

as Self (archive footage)

Dave Brubeck

as Self (archive footage)

Art Tatum

as Self (archive footage)

John Coltrane

as Self (archive footage)

Art Blakey

as Self (archive footage)

Charles Mingus

as Self (archive footage)

Wynton Marsalis

as Self

Miles Davis

as Self (archive footage)

Lester Young

as Self (archive footage)

Stanley Crouch

as Self

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