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Jazz. Episode ten, A masterpiece by midnight [digital videodisc] / a production of Florentine Films and WETA, Washington D.C. in association with BBC ; a film by Ken Burns ; writer, Geoffrey C. Ward ; producers, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick.

[United States] : PBS ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2000.

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.

Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971.

Gordon, Dexter, 1923-1990

Roach, Max, 1924-2007

Mingus, Charles, 1922-1979.

Getz, Stan, 1927-1991.

Coltrane, John, 1926-1967.

Marsalis, Wynton, 1961-

Jazz -- History and criticism.

Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography

African American musicians -- Biography.

African Americans -- Music

Civil rights movements -- United States -- Songs and music.

1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Standard version.

In the 1960s jazz fragments into the avant-garde and many divided schools of thought. Many jazz musicians like Dexter Gordon are forced to leave America in search of work while other use the music as a form of social protest: Max Roach, Charles Mingus, and Archie Shepp make overtly political musical statements. John Coltrane appeals to a broad audience before his untimely death. Saxophonist Stan Getz helps boost a craze for bossa nova music, but in the early 1970s jazz founders Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington pass away. Miles Davis leads a movement of jazz musicians who incorporate elements of rock and soul into their music and "fusion" wins listeners. By the mid-1980's jazz begins to bounce back led by Wynton Marsalis and a new generation of musicians. Now as it approaches its centennial, jazz is still alive, still changing and still swinging.

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