Jazz

Documentary200110 episodes1 seasonMiniseries

First aired: 2001-01-09

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Keith David
    Narrator
  • Dave Brubeck
    Self (archive footage)
  • Billie Holiday
    Self (archive footage)
  • Miles Davis
    Self (archive footage)
  • Louis Armstrong
    Self (archive footage)
  • Duke Ellington
    Self (archive footage)
  • Benny Goodman
    Self (archive footage)
  • Wynton Marsalis
    Self
  • Glenn Miller
    Self (archive footage)
  • Lester Young
    Self (archive footage)