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 ...

Explore the places where jazz music came of age and where the early sound of jazz would take root and spread. Biographical Reference: The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz End User Conditions ...

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