Jazz - Season 1 - Eps 8: Risk: 1945-1955

Name: Eps 8: Risk: 1945-1955
Released: 2001-01-24
Rating: 3.8

2001-01-24 • 119 min • ⭐ 7.5/10

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.

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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.