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Jazz is a 2001 television documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns. It was broadcast on PBS in 2001 [2] and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. [3] Its chronological and thematic episodes provided a history of jazz, emphasizing innovative composers and musicians and American history.
United States. Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story is the 2022 American documentary film based on the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The documentary directed by Frank Marshall and Ryan Suffern, premiered at the South by Southwest film festival on March 13, 2022. It was distributed by Sony Pictures Classics in limited theatres on May ...
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Andrews is interviewed on screen and appears in performance footage in the 2005 documentary film Make It Funky!, released in 2005, which presents a history of the music of New Orleans and its influence on rhythm and blues, rock music, funk and jazz. [19] In the film, he performed with Kermit Ruffins and Irvin Mayfield on "Skokiaan", and was a ...
1948–1980. Henry Roeland " Roy " Byrd (December 19, 1918 – January 30, 1980), [1] better known as Professor Longhair or "Fess" for short, was an American singer and pianist who performed New Orleans blues. He was active in two distinct periods, first in the heyday of early rhythm and blues and later in the resurgence of interest in ...
English. Budget. $ 1,000,000 (estimated) Let's Get Lost is a 1988 American documentary film, written and directed by Bruce Weber, about the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, who died four months before the film's release. [2] The title is derived from the song "Let's Get Lost" by Jimmy McHugh and Frank Loesser from the ...
Zydeco (/ ˈzaɪdɪˌkoʊ, - diː -/ ZY-dih-koh, -dee-; French: zarico) is a music genre that was created in rural Southwest Louisiana by Afro-Americans of Creole heritage. It blends blues and rhythm and blues with music indigenous to the Louisiana Creoles, such as la la and juré. Musicians use the French accordion and a Creole washboard ...
C. Calle 54. Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog. The Church of Saint Coltrane. The Cole Nobody Knows. Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool. The Cry of Jazz.