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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

Keith David as Narrator in Jazz Keith David

Sidney Bechet

Louis Armstrong as Self (archive footage) in Jazz Louis Armstrong

Duke Ellington as Self (archive footage) in Jazz Duke Ellington

Benny Goodman as Self (archive footage) in Jazz Benny Goodman

Artie Shaw as Self (archive footage) in Jazz Artie Shaw

Billie Holiday as Self (archive footage) in Jazz Billie Holiday

Glenn Miller as Self (archive footage) in Jazz Glenn Miller

Dave Brubeck as Self (archive footage) in Jazz Dave Brubeck

Art Tatum

John Coltrane as Self (archive footage) in Jazz John Coltrane

Art Blakey as Self (archive footage) in Jazz Art Blakey

Charles Mingus as Self (archive footage) in Jazz Charles Mingus

Wynton Marsalis as Self in Jazz Wynton Marsalis

Miles Davis as Self (archive footage) in Jazz Miles Davis

Lester Young