Jazz is a ten part series that explores the evolution – and the genius – of America’s greatest original art form, focusing on the extraordinary men and women who could do something remarkable – create art on the spot. Jazz celebrates their profoundly enduring, endlessly varied, and infinitely alluring music in the context of the complicated country that gave birth to and influenced it, and was in turn transformed by it.

• Keith David
• Sidney Bechet
• Louis Armstrong
• Duke Ellington
• Benny Goodman
• Artie Shaw
• Billie Holiday
• Glenn Miller