Jazz - Season 1

Jazz - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes10
DatesJan 9, 2001 - Jan 31, 2001

Episodes

Gumbo, Beginnings to 1917
Season 1Episode 1115 min

Gumbo, Beginnings to 1917

1 - "Gumbo" - (beginnings To 1917) - Blues, Louisiana Creole music, minstrel shows, New Orleans jazz, Original Dixieland Jass Band, ragtime - Personalities: Sidney Bechet, Buddy Bolden, Freddie Keppard, Jelly Roll Morton, James Reese Europe, Nick LaRocca

Jan 9, 2001
The Gift, 1917 - 1924
Season 1Episode 2115 min

The Gift, 1917 - 1924

2 - "The Gift" - (1917–1924) - Chicago jazz, Harlem Renaissance, New Orleans jazz, World War - Personalities: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, James Reese Europe, Fletcher Henderson, James P. Johnson, King Oliver, Willie Smith, Paul Whiteman

Jan 9, 2001
Our Language, 1924 - 1929
Season 1Episode 3115 min

Our Language, 1924 - 1929

3 - "Our Language" - (1924–1928) - Cotton Club, Harlem Renaissance, Savoy Ballroom - Personalities: Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Earl Hines, Artie Shaw, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters

Jan 10, 2001
The True Welcome, 1929 - 1935
Season 1Episode 4115 min

The True Welcome, 1929 - 1935

4 - "The True Welcome" - (1929–1935) - Great Depression, Lindy hop, swing music - Personalities: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, John Hammond, Fletcher Henderson, Billy Rose, Art Tatum, Fats Waller, Chick Webb

Jan 15, 2001
Swing: Pure Pleasure, 1935 - 1937
Season 1Episode 5115 min

Swing: Pure Pleasure, 1935 - 1937

5 - "Swing: Pure Pleasure" - (1935–1937) - Discrimination in public accommodations, Great Depression, Savoy Ballroom, swing music - Personalities: Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Jimmie Lunceford, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Chick Webb, Teddy Wilson

Jan 17, 2001
Swing: The Velocity of Celebration, 1937 - 1939
Season 1Episode 6115 min

Swing: The Velocity of Celebration, 1937 - 1939

Swing would be reacquainted with its blues roots by way of Kansas City, when Count Basie and the Barons of Rhythm brought their hot sound to the Big Apple. Basie would also give Billie Holiday her first break, offering her a chance to travel, perform, drink, and gamble with the rest of the band. Another young singer named Ella Fitzgerald would get her start in Chick Webb’s band at the Savoy Ballroom, and then be named top female vocalist—over Billy Holiday—by Down Beat in 1937.
Jan 22, 2001
Dedicated to Chaos, 1943 - 1945
Season 1Episode 7115 min

Dedicated to Chaos, 1943 - 1945

"Dedicated to Chaos" finds jazz musicians teetering on the brink of the modern era, fighting against the straightjacket of clichéd, big band arrangements. The revolution started at Minton’s Playhouse, a rundown club where musicians like Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Christian jammed on Monday nights. When they hooked up with a young saxophone player from Kansas City named Charlie Parker, the bop insurgency had arrived.
Jan 23, 2001
Risk, 1945 - 1949
Season 1Episode 8115 min

Risk, 1945 - 1949

The bop revolution’s influence would spread to other musicians, but unlike swing, it would never become a popular music. The rapid-fire solos and complicated chord structures made bop a musician’s music, unfit for dancing. Indeed, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie’s music even alienated established musicians like Armstrong. "Risk" provides an in-depth biography of the bright, brief life of Parker, and includes interviews with his former wife.
Jan 24, 2001
The Adventure, 1956 - 1960
Season 1Episode 9115 min

The Adventure, 1956 - 1960

Critics who had believed that Charlie Parker was "too much" musically, could not have welcomed the arrival of Ornette Coleman. Coleman and John Coltrane would edge jazz toward even more freedom, eventually dropping all traditional structures. While these artists alienated many listeners, Miles Davis would record the most popular jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue.
Jan 29, 2001
A Masterpiece by Midnight, 1960 to the Present
Season 1Episode 10115 min

A Masterpiece by Midnight, 1960 to the Present

Obviously Ken Burns knows that he can’t fit the last thirty-nine years of jazz history onto two hours of video tape, so from the outset, that shouldn’t be expected. There’s an excellent biography of John Coltrane, and footage of Miles Davis’ wonderful mid-‘60s quintet. There is also a nice, small section on the magnificent Charles Mingus.
Jan 31, 2001

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