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The Gift JAZZ volume 1
(early roots to the late-1920s)

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Ken Burns
Jazz Film Project Inc, 2001
2 video box set £15.00

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Volume one of JAZZ reveals the very earliest musical roots of the artform and traces the development of Jazz from the streets of New Orleans up until the end of the 1920s, by which time it had conquered all of America.

Here are the true pioneers of Jazz: the half-mad cornetist Buddy Bolden, who may have been the first man to play jazz; pianist Jelly Roll Morton, who claimed to have invented jazz but really was the first to write the music down; Sidney Bechet, a clarinet prodigy whose fiery sound matched his explosive personality; and Freddie Keppard, a trumpet virtuoso who turned down a chance to win national fame for fear that others would steal the secrets of his art.

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FURTHER VIDEOS

Swing Pure Pleasure Ken Burns Jazz vol 2 Dedicated to Chaos Ken Burns Jazz vol 3 Masterpiece at Midnight Ken Burns Jazz vol 4

TIMELINES

roots of jazz New Orleans Chicago Founding Fathers of Jazz Louis Armstrong Sidney Bechet Buddy Bolden Duke Ellington Fletcher Henderson Earl Hines Jelly Roll Morton King Oliver Kid Ory

Over six years in the making, JAZZ is the definitive film history of the music from its roots in the early nineteenth century through to today. Immaculately researched, it features literally hundreds of rare and classic recordings and live performances from a century of jazz music, supported by exclusive interviews and rare or never been seen before film clips and still photographs. Armstrong, Ellington, Basie, Goodman, Brubeck, Davis - all the big names are here but so too are dozens of less well known artists whose talent and creativity helped to shape the course of a true musical revolution.