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.
Gumbo: Beginnings to 1917
The Gift: 1917-1924
Our Language: 1924 -1929
The True Welcome: 1929-1934
Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-1937
Swing: The Velocity of Celebration - 1937-1939
Dedicated to Chaos: 1940-1945
Risk: 1945-1955
The Adventure: 1956-1960
A Masterpiece by Midnight: 1960 to the Present