Jazz
Overview:
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. Released: 2001
Genre: Documentary
Casts: Glenn Miller, Keith David, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Art Blakey, Wynton Marsalis, Stanley Crouch, Sidney Bechet, Billie Holiday, Dave Brubeck, Art Tatum, Charles Mingus, Lester Young