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Jazz

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The story of jazz, a quintessential American art form, featuring 75 interviews, more than 500 pieces of music, 2,400 still photographs and more than 2,000 archival film clips. This 10-part series follows the growth and development of jazz music from New Orleans to Chicago's Southside, where Louis Armstrong first won fame; from Prohibition-era speakeasies to the clubs of Kansas City; from the Roseland Ballroom in Times Square, where only whites were allowed to dance, to the more egalitarian Savoy Ballroom in Harlem.

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