Jazz
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
2001, Series, 108 min, Documentary, History, Music, English, United States, MoviePedia score 71
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.
Directed by Ken Burns
Cast
- Keith David as Narrator
- Wynton Marsalis as jazz historian
- Gary Giddins as Self - music critic
- Delroy Lindo as Narrator
- Kevin Conway as Narrator
- Gerald Early as Self - Writer
- Samuel L. Jackson as Narrator
- Philip Bosco as Self
- Artie Shaw as actor
- Arvell Shaw as Self - bassist
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