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Mood:
- SincereCaptivating
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Plot:
- Music BandMusician's LifePerformer's LifeAmericanaAmbitionArtists and ShowbizHopesLifestyle more...
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Genres:
- MusicDocumentary
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century
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Place:
- USA
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Style:
- Voice OverArchive Footage
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Score:
- Jazz
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Jazz, 2001
English
UK, USA
Profile of Jazz
The mood of Jazz is sincere and captivating. The plot centers around a music band, Americana, and the life of a performer. It is a documentary TV show. Stylistically, Jazz archive footage and includes a voice over. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is the USA. Jazz happens in the 20th century. The musical score is jazz. The TV show is known for being critically acclaimed.
Summary of Jazz
Jazz: A Film By Ken Burns is a documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns. Jazz is the last in a trilogy by Burns, following The Civil War and Baseball. The film concerns the history of jazz music in the USA, from its origins at the turn of the twentieth century to the present day. It is narrated by Keith David, and features interviews with present-day musicians and critics such as trumpeter Wynton Marsalis (also the artistic director and co-producer of Jazz) and noted critics Gary Giddins and Stanley Crouch. Music critic and African-American historian Gerald Early was also a consultant. Broadcaster and producer Phil Schaap is interviewed briefly. Jazz is the longest jazz documentary yet produced, and it is rich in musical examples and classic, rare and unseen footage. Visually, Jazz is in the same style as Ken Burns's previous works: slowly panning and zooming shots of photographs are mixed with period movie sequences, accompanied by music of, and commentary on, the period being examined. Between these sequences, present-day jazz figures provide anecdotes and explain the defining features of the major musicians' styles. Duke Ellington's Lazy Rhapsody (1932) is a recurring motif at the opening and closing of individual episodes of the series. The documentary focuses on a number of major musicians: Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington are the central figures, "providing the narrative thread around which the stories of other major figures turn",[1] among them Sidney Bechet, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. A number of companion CDs were released simultaneously.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK, USA |
| Release date: | 8 January 2001 |
| Runtime: | 114 min |
| Seasons: | 1 |
Cast and Crew
as Narrator 10 episodes, 2001
as Andrew 'Andy' Brown unknown episodes
as Amos unknown episodes
as Himself
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