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Jazz

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.

2001 |1 Season  | 2h 0m |  Documentary

Cast

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Keith David

Narrator

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Louis Armstrong

Self (archive footage)

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Duke Ellington

Self (archive footage)

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Benny Goodman

Self (archive footage)

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Artie Shaw

Self (archive footage)

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Billie Holiday

Self (archive footage)

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Glenn Miller

Self (archive footage)

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Dave Brubeck

Self (archive footage)

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John Coltrane

Self (archive footage)

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Charles Mingus

Self (archive footage)

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Miles Davis

Self (archive footage)

Seasons List

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Specials

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Miniseries

2001

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Status

Ended

Languages

English

Network

PBS