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Product Information
The complete series which traces jazz from the early nineteenth century through the fifties and right up to date.
Product Identifiers
ProducerLynn Novick, Ken Burns, Peter Miller
EAN5019322047216
eBay Product ID (ePID)3948879
Product Key Features
ActorGlenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Freddie Keppard, Louis Armstrong, Artie Shaw, Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Bolden, Sidney Bechet, Sonny Rollins
Aspect Ratio4:3
Film/TV TitleJazz-A Film by Ken Burns (Box Set)
DirectorKen Burns
Release Year2001
FormatDVD
LanguageEnglish
GenreMusicals & Broadway, Jazz, Music-Popular
Run Time750 Mins
Additional Product Features
CertificateE
Number of Discs4
Additional InformationFor the third part of his American Trilogy--following THE CIVIL WAR and BASEBALL--Ken Burns takes on jazz, "that most American of art forms." The 10-part, 19-hour film begins with the music's roots in post-Civil War New Orleans and concludes roughly a century later. The story focuses not only on the personalities and events that helped define the music but also on the social and cultural climate in which they emerged, making KEN BURNS' JAZZ a film about more than just music.
ReviewsUSA Today - "...This epic production surrounds its stories and civic lessons with an almost unquenchable torrent of great music..." -- 3 out of 4 stars, New York Times - ...Mr. Burns's elegiac thoroughness...is given a big lift by the artfully assembled music....JAZZ is full of dreams.
ScreenwriterKen Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward
Sound sourceDolby Digital Stereo
EditorPaul Barnes
Movie/TV TitleJazz - A Film By Ken Burns (Box Set)
Detailed and absorbing history of jazz, with the great characters and legends explored in detail. The story is superbly illustrated with contemporary pictures and films and of course musical extracts.