Jazz - Season 1 - Eps 3: Our Language: 1924 -1929

Name: Eps 3: Our Language: 1924 -1929
Released: 2001-01-10
Rating: 3.8

2001-01-10 • 107 min • ⭐ 7.5/10

Colorful characters like the tragic Bix Beiderbecke, powerhouse Bessie Smith, and the braggart Jelly Roll Morton, make the study of jazz fascinating. Perhaps most touching in this episode is the extended portrait of the troubled, white cornet player, Bix Beiderbecke, whose family disapproved of his chosen profession, and who would never be allowed to record with greats like Louis Armstrong due to segregation in the music business.

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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.