Jazz

About Jazz

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…

Jazz is a documentary series made for PBS. Keith David stars as Narrator (voice), Sidney Bechet as Self (archive footage), Louis Armstrong as Self (archive footage), and Duke Ellington as Self (archive footage).

It reached one season of 10 episodes from January 2001.

Members will find jazz and jazz singer or musician in it. American members can watch it on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel, Thirteen, and WETA+.