What is Jazz about?

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.

Latest episode

S1 · Episode 10 — A Masterpiece by Midnight: 1960 to the Present · 2001-01-31

Obviously 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. There’s an excellent biography of John Coltrane, and footage of Miles Davis’ wonderful mid-‘60s quintet. There is also a nice, small section on the magnificent Charles Mingus.

Genres: Documentary
First aired: 2001-01-09
Rating: ★ 7.5 / 10

Top cast

Keith David Narrator (voice)
Sidney Bechet Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington Self (archive footage)
Benny Goodman Self (archive footage)
Artie Shaw Self (archive footage)

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