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Jazz

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  • 2001-2001
  • 1 Season
  • PBS
  • Documentary, Music
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Jazz has been called the purest expression of American democracy; a music built on individualism and compromise, independence and cooperation. Ken Burns follows the growth and development of jazz music from the gritty streets of New Orleans to Chicago's south side, the speakeasies of Kansas city and to Times Square.

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Keith David
Narrator
Wynton Marsalis
Self
Gary Giddins
Self

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Episode 1

Gumbo

Tue, Jan 9, 200187 mins

Jazz begins in New Orleans, 19th century America's most cosmopolitan city, where the sound of marching bands, Italian opera, Caribbean rhythms, and minstrel shows fills the streets with a richly diverse musical culture. In the 1890s, African-American musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Buddy Bolden and Sydney Bichet create a new music out of these ingredients. Soon after the start of the new century, people are calling it jazz.

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Awards

  • 2001 - TCA Award - Outstanding Achievement in News and Information - winner
  • 2002 - WGA Award (TV) - Documentary - Other Than Current Events - nominated
  • 2002 - C.A.S. Award - Outstanding Sound Mixing for Television - MOW's and Mini-Series - nominated
  • 2001 - Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Cinematography for Non-Fiction Programming - nominated

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