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What we remember, what we've forgotten, and what we never knew about America's least understood war, revealed in a riveting, richly illustrated volume based on the major ten-part PBS documentary series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Historian Geoffrey C. Ward and filmmaker Ken Burns, the authors of the acclaimed and best-selling The Civil War, Jazz, The War, and Baseball, present an intimate history of the Vietnam War. All the major milestones...
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Episode 1. 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.
Episode 2. From 1917 through 1924, the "Jazz Age" begins with...
6) Jazz
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"A virtuoso performance by acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns, Jazz celebrates the music of America -- from blues and ragtime to swing, bebop and fusion. With Jazz, Ken Burns reaches the high note of his epic trilogy on American life that began with 'The Civil War' and continued with 'Baseball'"--Container
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