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Episodes

1. Gumbo: Beginnings to 1917

2. The Gift: 1917-1924

3. Our Language: 1924 -1929

4. The True Welcome: 1929-1934

5. Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-1937

6. Swing: The Velocity of Celebration - 1937-1939

7. Dedicated to Chaos: 1940-1945

8. Risk: 1945-1955

9. The Adventure: 1956-1960

10. A Masterpiece by Midnight: 1960 to the Present

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Jazz

Documentary

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.

Date: 01/09/2001

Rating: 8.0

Cast: Keith David, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Billie Holiday, Glenn Miller, Dave Brubeck, Art Tatum, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Wynton Marsalis, Miles Davis, Lester Young, Stanley Crouch

Keith David