JAZZ EPS 1 GUMBO

Movie Description:
In the past, documentarian Ken Burns has brought us comprehensive explorations ofour history and society in the CIVIL WAR AND BASEBALL.Now, rounding out what he has called his "American trilogy",Burns tackles "that most American of art forms", jazz.Beginning in 1917, when the rumblingsof this radical new approach tomusic were heard in the deep south, and moving through the swing, be-bop, and experimental eras, Burns takes theviewer on a 19-hour visual and aural tour. Find out why jazzwas, and may still be, one of the most revolutionary musical-- and artistic -- expressionsaround.