For those of us engaged in trying to understand it, the history of jazz turns out to be much more than a study of this extraordinary American music. Jazz has offered a precise prism through which ...

Marsalis and Ken Burns also worked together on Burns's 2000 PBS documentary Jazz, a 10-part series that explored the history of Jazz music, on which Marsalis was Senior Creative Consultant.

Ken Burns has been making documentaries. Over the years, he's created 36 documentary series for PBS, all of them about ...