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Jazz
Gumbo
Season 1
Episode 1
JAZZ begins in New Orleans, nineteenth century America's most cosmopolitan city, where the sound of marching bands, Italian opera, Caribbean rhythms, and minstrel shows fills the streets with a richly diverse musical culture. Here, in the 1890s, African-American musicians create a new music out of these ingredients by mixing in ragtime syncopations and the soulful feeling of the blues.
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During the Sixties, jazz is in trouble.
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Currents of change in American now impact Jazz.
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The postwar years bring America to a level of prosperity unimaginable a decade before.
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When America enters World War II, jazz is part of the arsenal.
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A new sound emerges- pulsing, stomping, suffused with the blues.
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As the Depression drags on, jazz comes as close as ever to being America's music
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Jazz is called upon to lift the spirits of a frightened country.
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As the stock market continues to soar, jazz is everywhere in America
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Louis Armstrong shows the whole world how to swing.