Jazz. Episode eight, Risk / a a film by Ken Burns ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick ; [a production of Florentine Films and WETA, Washington D.C. in association with BBC].
Publisher:
PBS,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
1 videodisc (approx. 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Special features: spectacular motion menus; 56 special music information cards. Commentary (in order of appearance): Jon Hendricks, Ossie Davis, Stan Levey, Stanley Crouch, Wynton Marsalis, Phil Schaap, Albert Murray, Frankie Manning, Jackie McLean, Harry "Sweeets" Edison, Nat Hentoff, Arvell Shaw, Gerald Early, Gary Giddins, Branford Marsalis, Chan Richardson Parker, Bertrand Tavernier, Quincy Troupe, Margo Jefferson, Allen Ginsberg, Cassandra Wilson, Lorraine Gordon, George Wein, Jimmy Rowles ; narrated by Keith David.
Summary:
Between 1945 and 1955 jazz splinters into different camps: cool and hot, East and West, traditional and modern. One by one, the big bands leave the road, but Duke Ellington keeps his band together, while Louis Armstrong puts together a small group, the "All-Stars." Promoter Norman Granz insists on equal treatment for every member of his integrated troupes on his Jazz at the Philharmonic Tours. Meanwhile, bebop musicians Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker are creating some of the most inventive jazz ever played but a devastating narcotics plague sweeps through the jazz community, ruining lives and changing the dynamics of performance. And a number of great performers including Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Thelonious Monk, Paul Desmond, Bille Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and John Lewis find new ways to bring new audiences to jazz.
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