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Ken Burns follows the growth and development of jazz music from the gritty streets of New Orleans to Chicago's south side, the speakeasies of Kansas city and to Times Square. Full film now...
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Six years in the making, Jazz features 75 interviews, more...
- Music 101
To many, composed music and improvised music seem to be...
- Roots of Jazz
Explore the places where jazz music came of age and where...
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- Episode Guide
Episode 3: Our Language. As the stock market continues to...
- A Note from Ken Burns
For those of us engaged in trying to understand it, the...
- Q&A with the Filmmakers
I love the music, and I had a bunch of records, and I had...
- Mark Twain
Ken Burns's illuminating portrait of Mark Twain, one of the...
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Jazz is a 2001 television documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns. It was broadcast on PBS in 2001 [2] and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. [3] . Its chronological and thematic episodes provided a history of jazz, emphasizing innovative composers and musicians and American history.
Jazz has been called the purest expression of American democracy; a music built on individualism and compromise, independence and cooperation. Ken Burns follows the growth and development...
Less than 30 years after its birth, jazz had traveled the world, become the popular music of the day and was on its way to unforeseen musical innovations.
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Jazz explores the evolution and the genius of America’s greatest original art form. Not simply a chronicle of musical fact or lore, Jazz shows this remarkable music in the context of the complicated country that gave birth to it and shows how this remarkable art form became a part of world culture.
Jazz a history of America's music. Other Title. PBS, Jazz, a new film by Ken Burns. Summary. Companion Web site to a PBS documentary produced by Ken Burns. Enhances and expands on the film by providing episode descriptions, film clips, program airdates and times, and related links.
