Masters of American Music 4: Story of Jazz / Various

A rich ninety-minute weave of sounds, rare film clips, stills, and interviews that places the history of jazz into proper perspective. A captivating trek through the stylistic changes that have kept jazz so fresh for all these years. New Orleans traditions, stride, swing, boogie-woogie, big band, jump band, the singers, the dancers, the blues, bebop, Afro-Cuban, cool, free-form. It's all here.

Director: Matthew Seig
Producer: Richard Saylor
Producer: Toby Byron
Actor: Billie Holiday
Actor: Dizzy Gillespie
Actor: Lester Bowie
Actor: Tony Bennett
Actor: Wynton Marsalis
Actor: Billy Eckstine
Actor: Billy Taylor
Actor: Buck Clayton
Actor: Bud Freeman
Actor: Carmen McRae
Actor: Dave Brubeck
Actor: Illinois Jacquet
Actor: Jay McShann
Actor: Joe Williams
Actor: Randy Weston
Actor: Roy Haynes
Actor: Zilner Randolph