Episode 1: Gumbo. Jazz begins in New Orleans, nineteenth century America's most cosmopolitan city, ... Sign up to get updates about the film and future projects from Ken Burns and Florentine Films.

Calling jazz "a precise prism through which much of American history can be seen," PBS' long-form star Ken Burns yesterday formally unveiled "Jazz," a 10-part, 18 1/2-hour series that will ...

Ken Burns' mammoth new TV series, Jazz, is an artistic triumph packed with expert insight, ...

Speaking at the Palace of Fine Arts preview of his "Jazz" documentary on PBS, filmmaker Ken Burns noted that jazz music in the 1920s accounted for 70 percent of all records sold; he then bemoaned ...