Jazz (documentary)

Jazz: A Film By Ken Burns is the last documentary in a trilogy by Ken Burns about American Life. It was broadcast on PBS in 2001. The first documentary in the trilogy was The Civil War, in 1990, and the second was Baseball in 1994.

Episodes

Jazz is comprised of ten episodes, each covering a different era. The episodes are:

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• Gumbo, Beginnings-1917
• The Gift, 1917-1924
• Our Language, 1924-1928
• The True Welcome, 1929-1935
• Swing - Pure Pleasure, 1935-1937
• Swing - The Velocity of Celebration, 1937-1939
• Dedicated to Chaos, 1940-1945
• Risk, 1945-1946
• The Adventure, 1956-1961
• A Masterpiece by Midnight, 1961-Present