Jazz (2000)

Directed by

Ken Burns

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h

Rated

G

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary miniseries tells the history of jazz music in America from 1917 to 2001. It focuses on key musicians like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis, and shows how their work connects to broader American history.

educationalnostalgicexpansivecontemplativecelebratoryhistoricalstructured

What happens

Jazz is a 2001 television documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns. It was broadcast on PBS in 2001 and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. Its chronological and thematic episodes provided a history of jazz, emphasizing innovative composers and musicians and American history. Swing musicians Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington are the central figures. Several episodes discussed the later contributions of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie to bebop, and of Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and John Coltrane to free and cool jazz. Of this 10-part documentary surveying jazz in the years from 1917 to 2001, all but the last episode are devoted to music pre-1961. The series was produced by Florentine Films in cooperation with the BBC and in association with WETA-TV, Washington. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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