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All That Jazz
Santoro, Gene | January 29, 2001 issue

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The article highlights the documentary television program "Jazz." The ten-episode, nineteen-hour series was six years in the making, and it sprawls: seventy-five talking heads, thousands of still photos and pieces of film, some 500 pieces of music. Costing some 13 million dollars, it is the biggest documentary that's been done about jazz. Taking its building blocks from slave music, marching bands, blues, the church, European dance and classical music, jazz began life as a mongrel in New Orleans, came up the river to Chicago, met up with New York proto-swing bands and Harlem stride pianists and exploded, drawing young white players into a black-developed music.

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JAZZ (TV program); JAZZ; BANDS (Music); MARCHING bands; PIANISTS; TELEVISION -- Production & direction
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