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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 turn transformed by it."

Cast

65827

Keith David

as Narrator (voice)

1397372

Sidney Bechet

as Self (archive footage)

82280

Louis Armstrong

as Self (archive footage)

858

Duke Ellington

as Self (archive footage)

82408

Benny Goodman

as Self (archive footage)

90379

Artie Shaw

as Self (archive footage)

1142312

Billie Holiday

as Self (archive footage)

144091

Glenn Miller

as Self (archive footage)

116647

Dave Brubeck

as Self (archive footage)

1704886

Art Tatum

as Self (archive footage)

1049219

John Coltrane

as Self (archive footage)

192545

Art Blakey

as Self (archive footage)

116649

Charles Mingus

as Self (archive footage)

211454

Wynton Marsalis

as Self

15393

Miles Davis

as Self (archive footage)

1125700

Lester Young

as Self (archive footage)

555310

Stanley Crouch

as Self

Crew

536506

Lynn Novick

Producer

204484

Ken Burns

Producer

214316

Geoffrey C. Ward

Writer