Jazz Miniseries Episode 1 Gumbo: Beginnings to 1917 ( Air Date 2001-01-09 ) Genre Documentary category. Overview ""Gumbo" traces the roots of jazz from the 1800s to 1917. The viewer will catch glimpses of Jelly Roll Morton, who erroneously claimed to have invented jazz, and the tragic, though influential, figure of trumpeter Buddy Bolden.".
Jazz Miniseries Episode 1 Gumbo: Beginnings to 1917
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- Stars: Keith David, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Billie Holiday, Glenn Miller, Dave Brubeck, Art Tatum, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Wynton Marsalis, Miles Davis, Lester Young, Stanley Crouch
- Director: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
