Jazz : A Film By Ken Burns (2001) Boxed-10-DVD-Set [2004]

JAZZ is a ten-part nearly nineteen-hour documentary series that celebrates America's greatest original art form a music whose improvisational spirit perfectly reflects the nation that gave it birth. It is the first television series ever to tell the story of jazz. Beginning with the birth of jazz at the dawn of the Twentieth Century the film incorporates the wide range of American culture and historical events that interact directly with the music: among them the harsh racial polarization of the 1890s; the artistic and political ferment of the Harlem Renaissance; the exuberance of the Jazz Age; the Great Depression and the New Deal; the Second World War; the emergence of a youth culture in the 1950s and 1960s; the hope anger and expectations of the civil rights movement; and the search for identity and authenticity in the 1970s 1980s and 1990s.

Each two-hour episode of the ten episodes of Jazz covers a different era:
- to 1917 Gumbo - Beginnings
1917-1924 The Gift
1924-1928 Our Language
1929-1935 The True Welcome
1935-1937 Swing - Pure Pleasure
1937-1939 Swing - The Velocity of Celebration
1940-1945 Dedicated to Chaos
1945-1956 Risk
1956-1961 The Adventure
1961-2001 A Masterpiece by Midnight

Format: Box set, Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 10*DVD9
Studio: PBS Paramount
DVD Release Date: September 28, 2004
Run Time: 1140 minutes

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