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Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - DVD Nonfiction
DVD 781.65 JAZ
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DVD 781.65 JAZ
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From the DVD
Episode 1. Gumbo (ca. 90 min.)
episode 2. The gift (ca. 120 min.)
episode 3. Our language (ca. 120 min.)
episode 4. The true welcome (ca. 120 min.)
episode 5. Swing : pure pleasure (ca. 90 min.)
episode 6. Swing : the velocity of celebration (ca. 105 min.).
From the eVideo
Individual Jazz Geniuses (5:15)
Louis Armstrong (2:44)
Louis Armstrong: Scatting (5:20)
Sing Like the Devil (6:00)
Sing Like the Devil - Blues (4:15)
Sing Like the Devil - Jazz Age (1:14)
Bix (12:28)
The Most Dog (4:29)
The Most Dog - Sidney Bechet in Europe (4:17)
The Most Dog - Benny Goodman (51:48)
The Mother of Us All (6:44)
'Jelly Roll' Morton (6:18)
Race Man (9:20)
Race Man - Duke Ellington's Inspiration (5:38)
Artie Shaw (5:38)
Wake Up Bix (8:02)
Modern Time (5:01)
'West End Blues' (0:52)
Credits: 'Our Language: Ken Burns: Jazz, Part 3' (2:50)
From the eVideo
Swing: Pure Pleasure (5:47)
King of Swing - Benny Goodman (8:22)
Dreaming (4:51)
Dreaming - Louis Armstrong's Recovery (2:39)
Dreaming - Louis Armstrong's Movie Days (3:46)
Dreaming - Big Bands (12:20)
The Business Part (4:07)
The Road (9:39)
Like Taking a Drug (5:16)
Men Working Together (9:07)
Men Working Together - Billie Holiday (7:44)
Do You Remember? (6:07)
Coda (2:39)
Credits: 'Swing: Pure Pleasure, Ken Burns: Jazz, Part 5' (2:33)
From the eVideo
Improvised Art (1:49)
America's Music (2:17)
Jazz Celebrates Life (0:47)
Jazz Pioneers (2:52)
Gumbo (2:04)
Congo Square (1:57)
Creoles of Color (0:48)
New Orleans - One Vast Waltzing and Gallopating Hall (2:27)
Complexity of Black/White Relations in Music (3:31)
Jim Crow (2:25)
The Roux - Ragtime (2:18)
The Roux - Blues (2:22)
Sacred Blues - Letting the Soul Sing (3:40)
Deepening the Message of the Blues (1:49)
Plessy v. Ferguson (2:13)
Jazz Blossoms into Authentic Art (3:43)
The Big Noise (3:37)
Buddy Bolden at the Funky Butt Dance Hall (3:00)
Buddy Bolden Storyville Years (2:57)
Jellyroll Morton (3:39)
Jellyroll Morton - Self-Proclaimed Inventor of Jazz (4:25)
Jass to Jazz (2:27)
Sidney Bechet - The Poet of New Orleans Music (3:57)
Dawn of the Recording Industry (1:06)
The Soul of the Negro (3:32)
James Reese Europe (2:07)
Paving the Way for New Orleans Music (2:08)
The "Creators" of Jazz (2:58)
Original Dixieland Jazz Band (3:20)
Jazz Begins to Spread (2:33)
Nick LaRocca - (3:24)
Louis Armstrong (1:03)
Credits: Gumbo: Ken Burns' Jazz, Part 1 (2:46)
The First Frame (2:21)
Getting it Right (5:32)
The Voice of Jazz (2:25)
The Music (5:50)
From the eVideo
Introduction to Jazz in the 1930s (7:30)
The True Welcome (5:22)
Mr. Armstrong (3:33)
Mr. Armstrong - The Star (9:25)
Mr. Armstrong - (3:10)
Mr. Armstrong - Historical Change (2:08)
Lindy Hop at the Savoy (5:27)
Elegance (4:50)
Elegance - Orchestrated Blues (4:06)
Elegance - Harlem and Fats Waller (6:38)
An American Invention (6:02)
An American Invention - Armstrong and the Gangsters (4:46)
Hard Times (5:41)
Hard Times - John Hammond (2:12)
Hard Times - FDR and Prohibition (3:42)
Hard Times - Benny Goodman (9:07)
Hard Times - Art Tatum (5:29)
Hard Times - All About Dance (3:05)
Tremendous Pride (4:33)
Tremendous Pride - Duke Ellington on Tour (3:07)
Tremendous Pride - Tragedy and Recovery (4:09)
Tremendous Pride - Louis Armstrong (2:48)
Tremendous Pride - Hard Times for Louis Armstrong (2:15)
A Great Medicine (3:17)
A Great Medicine - Benny Goodman in Los Angeles (3:27)
Credits: 'The True Welcome: Ken Burns: Jazz, Part 4' (2:46)
From the eVideo
Dexter Gordon (3:43)
The Question of Jazz (1:15)
Jazz Expression (2:04)
'Hello, Dolly' by Louis Armstrong (4:23)
Violent Sixties (1:48)
Freedom Now! - To Reclaim Jazz (5:30)
Freedom Now! (2:33)
Imaginary Concerts (4:38)
Bossa Nova Movement (2:36)
Not To Be Understood (8:15)
Not To Be Understood - John Coltrane (9:28)
Tennis Without a Net (4:52)
Miles Davis and Fusion (6:32)
Good Evening Everybody (14:42)
Good Evening Everybody - Duke Ellington (4:54)
Good Evening Everybody - Death of Jazz (5:14)
Homecoming (2:59)
Homecoming - Wynton Marsalis (5:55)
Young Artists in Today's Jazz World (9:18)
Jazz Still Swings (2:50)
Jazz Legacy (1:55)
Credits: 'A Masterpiece by Midnight: Ken Burns: Jazz, Part 10' (2:55)
From the eVideo
Introduction to Jazz in the Late 1930s (2:26)
Swing-Mania and Big Bands (2:53)
Swing: Commerce and Compromise (2:52)
Saxophone - Coleman Hawkins (5:26)
Saxophonist Lester Young (6:08)
Kansas City (4:09)
Kansas City Jazz (3:51)
The Count (2:30)
The Count (5:06)
The Count - Mary Lou Williams (3:10)
Memories of You (4:07)
John Hammond and Count Basie (4:30)
Musical Kinship (5:42)
A Whore in Church (3:51)
Chick Webb and Orchestra (7:27)
The Ray (7:00)
Ella Fitzgerald (8:30)
Strange Fruit (7:30)
A Reason for Living (3:01)
A Reason for Living - Duke Ellington (3:00)
Coda (3:59)
Credits: 'Swing: The Velocity of Celebration, Ken Burns: Jazz, Part 6' (4:15)
From the eVideo
Charlie Parker (2:39)
Post-Depression Music (3:37)
Hippest Place in Town (5:41)
Dizzy Gillespie (5:06)
Charlie Parker on the Alto Saxophone (8:52)
Soldiers of Music (7:05)
Soldiers of Music - Military Jazz Musicians (5:05)
Finding Each Other (9:29)
Finding Each Other - Nazi's and Jazz (3:55)
Finding Each Other - Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie (5:46)
Kill Jim Crow (4:02)
Kill Jim Crow - Louis Armstrong (3:45)
The Street (2:56)
The Street - 52nd Street Jazz (7:59)
We Need to Be Free (18:11)
We Need to Be Free - WWII and Jazz (2:34)
We Need to Be Free - Django Reinhardt (2:39)
These Things Can't Happen (7:57)
Charlie Parker Recordings (5:06)
Credits: 'Dedicated to Chaos: Ken Burns: Jazz, Part 7' (2:49)
'Duke Ellington and His Orchestra' (3:04)
From the eVideo
Survival of Jazz (4:41)
Soul Music/Rock & Roll (1:59)
The Titan (8:32)
The Titan - Duke Ellington (6:45)
Eavesdropping (7:23)
Eavesdropping - Clifford Brown (5:20)
Eavesdropping - Sarah Vaughan (4:59)
Oofta (10:56)
The Messengers (10:54)
All-Star Jazz Event (4:56)
Lester Brown/Billie Holiday (6:58)
Inside/Outside (10:08)
Inside/Outside (4:10)
Existence Music - John Coltrane (9:45)
The Adventure (4:50)
The Adventure - Ornette Coleman in New York (6:18)
Credits: 'The Adventure: Ken Burns: Jazz, Part 9' (3:14)
Rehearsal of 'New Rhumba' (4:54)
From the eVideo
Jazz Music - Soundtrack to the Modern World (6:28)
Louis Armstrong - Early Years (4:58)
Importance of Musicians (3:20)
Joe Oliver and Louis Armstrong (4:35)
Musical Performances for Armstrong (3:05)
Hellfighters - Jazz in U.S. and Europe (3:31)
Hellfighters - All-Black Regiment Honored (4:38)
Ku Klux Klan (2:13)
Black America - Cultural Rebirth (1:49)
Appeal of Jazz (3:36)
Blessed (4:54)
Blessed - Rise of Duke Ellington (4:04)
Chicago (6:57)
Armstrong's First Recording (4:48)
New York (4:22)
New York - Musical Heroes (3:48)
New York - Duke Ellington (7:41)
The Austin High Gang (6:55)
Jazz Capital - Chicago (1:31)
Society Dance Music (2:53)
George Gershwin (2:54)
Fletcher Henderson (2:08)
To Make the Angels Weep (4:40)
Swing Jazz (5:05)
Gift to American Music (2:13)
Credits: The Gift: Ken Burns' Jazz, Part 2 (Includes a Louis Armstrong vocal performance) (6:53)
From the eVideo
Post-War Society (5:19)
Risk (4:12)
Risk - Bebop (4:25)
Risk - Decline and Fall of Charlie Parker (6:31)
Risk - Dizzy Gillespie and Bebop (5:50)
Trying to Play Clean (7:43)
Armstrong and Teagarden (5:30)
This Is My Home (4:01)
This Is My Home - Charlie Parker's Multiple Lives (3:58)
This Is My Home - Heroin and Jazz (8:05)
Sustained Intensity (5:56)
Sustained Intensity - Miles Davis (5:05)
Sustained Intensity - Bebop (3:22)
Sustained Intensity - Pianist John Lewis (2:13)
The Apostle of Hippness (3:16)
Jazz vs. Bebop (3:00)
Monk (10:30)
Billie Holiday (3:45)
Cool (7:20)
Cool - Promoter Norman Granz (3:40)
The Future Unlived (12:47)
Coda (2:35)
Credits: 'Risk: Ken Burns: Jazz, Part 8' (2:46)
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Subjects
Subjects
African Americans
African Americans -- History
African Americans -- Social life and customs
Depressions
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States
Educational films
History
History and criticism
Internet videos
Jazz
Jazz -- History and criticism
Jazz musicians
Music
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Musical form
Politics and government
Social life and customs
Style, Musical
United States -- History -- 1901-1953
United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1953
Video recording
Video recordings
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
African Americans -- History
African Americans -- Social life and customs
Depressions
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States
Educational films
History
History and criticism
Internet videos
Jazz
Jazz -- History and criticism
Jazz musicians
Music
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Musical form
Politics and government
Social life and customs
Style, Musical
United States -- History -- 1901-1953
United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1953
Video recording
Video recordings
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
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