Coleman Hawkins

Jazz: Season 1: Episode 6 -- As the 1930's come to a close, Swing-mania is still going strong, but some fans are saying success has made the music too predictable. Count Basie and the Kansas City sound reignite the spirit of swing. By the decade's end, Duke Ellington has been hailed as a hero in Europe, amid anxious preparations for war. And weeks after that war begins, Coleman Hawkins startles the world with a glimpse of what jazz will become, improvising a new music on the old standard, 'Body and Soul.'

Actors Greg Grunberg (Matt Parkman), Leonard Roberts (D.L. Hawkins), Jack Coleman (Mr. Bennet), and Hayden Panettiere (Claire Bennet) talk about the pilot show.