Jazz - Season 1 - Eps 1: Gumbo: Beginnings to 1917

Name: Eps 1: Gumbo: Beginnings to 1917
Released: 2001-01-09
Rating: 3.8

2001-01-09 • 82 min • ⭐ 7.5/10

"Gumbo" traces the roots of jazz from the 1800s to 1917. The viewer will catch glimpses of Jelly Roll Morton, who erroneously claimed to have invented jazz, and the tragic, though influential, figure of trumpeter Buddy Bolden.

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About Jazz

Title: Jazz

First Air Date: 2001-01-09

Last Air Date: 2001-01-31

Status: Ended

Rating: 7.5/10 (from 30 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 2

Total Episodes: 10

Network: PBS

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: PBS, Florentine Films, WETA, BBC

Synopsis

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.