PBS Jazz 01 of 10

PBS - Jazz (2001)



Information
A virtuoso performance by acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns, JAZZ celebrates the music of America - from blues and ragtime to swing, bebop and fusion. With JAZZ, Ken Burns reaches the high note of his epic trilogy on American life that began with THE CIVIL WAR and continued with BASEBALL. The series was created from over 500 musical selections, 75 interviews, 2400 stills and more than 2000 film clips. Four extras are included: a Making Of Jazz documentary and three historic music videos.
Release date - Oct 6, 2001
Number of DVDs - 10
Feature Runtime - ~19 hours
Directed by Ken Burns
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward
Narrated by Keith David

Part 1: Gumbo
Beginnings to 1917 - "Jazz music objectifies America," the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis says at the beginning of this episode. "It is an art form that can give us a painless way of understanding ourselves." Jazz is born in New Orleans during the 1890s, at the height of the Jim Crow era. It is a creation of the African-American community but incorporates every kind of music heard in the streets of the country's most cosmopolitan city, from Caribbean dances and Italian opera to blues, ragtime, military marches, and the call and response of the Baptist church. Its first great practitioners are the half-mad cornetist Buddy Bolden, who may be the first man ever to play jazz; Jelly Roll Morton, who falsely claimed to have invented it and really is the first to write the music down; and Sidney Bechet, whose fiery clarinet sound mirrors his own explosive personality. Few people beyond its birthplace have a chance to hear jazz until 1917, when a group of white musicians - the Original Dixieland Jazz Band - make the first recording. It outsells every other record made up to the time, and jazz becomes a national craze.
Runtime 1:27

Further InformationKen Burns' Jazz on Wikipedia.Read about jazz music on WikipediaKen Burns' Jazz on PBS.orgRelated DocumentariesJoe Zawinul - A Musical PortraitLouis Armstrong 100th AnniversaryHow Music Worksclick on the thumbnails below to get full-size images







Technical Specs
Video Codec : x264 CABAC
Video Bitrate : 1820 Kbps
Video Resolution : 640 x 480
Video Aspect Ratio : 4:3
Video Frame Rate : 23.976 fps
Quality Factor : 0.247 b/px
Audio : English
Audio Codec : Nero AAC
Audio Channels : 2
Audio Bitrate : 192 kb/s @ 48KHz CBR
Subtitles : none
Series Total Runtime : 18hr 16min 21sec
Runtime Per Part : 87min to 122min
Part Size : 1.2GiB to 1.7GiB
Number of Parts : 10 + 4 Extras
Encoded by : DocSocrates
Release Notes
The episode 1 source is 128k audio and episode 3 source is 384k audio. All others are 192k. Audio encoding preserves original bitrate in all cases.
All episodes will fit on four DVD-Rs. Probably the best way is:
- disc1 - Eps 1,2,3 + Extra 2
- disc2 - Eps 4,5,6
- disc3 - Eps 7,8 + Extra 3
- disc4 - Eps 9,10 + Extras 4,1
That puts the music video extras with their corresponding episodes and places the Making Of Jazz extra on the last disc.
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