Jazz (2001)

120 Min.·IMDb 7.5

Season 1: Episode 1

"Gumbo" traces the roots of jazz from the 1800s to 1917. The viewer will catch glimpses of Jelly Roll Morton, who erroneously claimed to have invented jazz, and the tragic, though influential, figure of trumpeter Buddy Bolden.

Episodes

10 total

Availability

Multiple subtitles. Streaming in Full HD quality.

Information

USA · 10 episodes

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.

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Cast

Keith David, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman

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