Jazz. Episode one, Gumbo / 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. 90 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Special features: spectacular motion menus; 43 special music information card; Making of Jazz : a special featurette. Commentary (in order of appearance): Wynton Marsalis, Gary Giddins, Albert Murray, Gerald Early, Branford Marsalis, Ossie Davis, Bruce Boyd Raeburn, Stanley Crouch, James Lincoln Collier, Doc Cheatham ; narrated by Keith David.
Summary:
Jazz is born in New Orleans at the turn of the century emerging from several forms of music including ragtime, marching bands, work songs, spirituals, creole music, funeral parade music and above all, the blues. Musicians profiled here who advanced early jazz are Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Freddie Keppard, and musicians of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
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