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PUBLISHED
[United States] : PBS DVD, [2000]
©2000
©2000
DESCRIPTION
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
B8263D
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"PBS DVD Gold."
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
Cinematography, Buddy Squires, Ken Burns ; editor, Paul Barnes
Commentary, Ossie Davis, Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Albert Murray, Stanley Crouch, Gerald Early, Gary Giddins, Bruce Boyd Raeburn, Doc Cheatham
Narrator, Keith David
DVD, stereo