KEN BURNS' JAZZ (2001)
If jazz music is the African-American community's great gift to popular culture, then this Ken Burns documentary is PBS's great gift to jazz lovers. Chronicling the art form from its birth on the fingertips of Jelly Roll Morton and the lips of Louis Armstrong to modern standardbearers like Wynton Marsalis, this sprawling odyssey wraps the great American music in its big ol' arms.
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