The music featured in Ken Burns's JAZZ is available from
Columbia/Legacy and the Verve Music Group:
• The Best Of Ken Burns JAZZ, a single-CD compilation,
offers a 20-song overview to the series.
• Ken Burns JAZZ - The Story Of America's Music, a
5-CD boxed set, contains much of the music featured in the
PBS television series.
• Also available are 22 individual titles featuring
the most popular and influential music of each artist's
career. These single-CD compilations are the definitive
commercially available collections representing each
artist's recorded works from all of the legendary jazz
labels. Individual artist compilations include (scroll down
and click on page to visit Liner Notes):
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JAZZ - SERIES MUSIC CREDITS
Series Project Director: Jeffrey Peisch
Project Directors: Sarah Botstein, Mike Charlasch, Seth
Rothstein
Project Managers: Adam Block, Ken Druker, Nate Herr, Bryan
Koniarz
A&R Committee: Ken Burns, Steve Berkowitz, Michael
Brooks, Sarah Botstein, Michael Cuscuna, Peter Miller, Lynn
Novick, Nedra Olds-Neal, Seth Rothstein, Richard Seidel, Ben
Young
Art Direction: Howard Fritzson, Hollis King, Adam Owett
Design: Nathan Savage/Red Herring Design
Photo Research: Victoria Gohl, Jeffrey Peisch
Series Packaging Managers: Lauren Atlas, John Christiana,
Clare Walker
Business Affairs: Pat Sweeting
A&R Coordination: Didier C. Deutsch, Kristin Kozusko,
Patti Matheny, Darren Salmieri
Special Thanks to: Pam Tubridy Baucom, Lilly Burns, Sarah
Burns, Wendy Byrne, Rebecca Carr, Church & Main Inc.,
Tom Cording, Joe DePlasco, Wanda Fuller, Alex Gatje, Valerie
Gillett, Teese Gohl, Robert Gold, Kevin Gore, Tom Greenwood,
Elliot Groffman, Randy Haecker, Dan Hamby, Don Ienner, John
Ingrassia, John Jackson, Michael Kauffman, Orrin Keepnews,
Karen Kenton, Dan Klores, Paul Koslowski, Michael Levine,
Arthur Levy, Tom Levy, Marc Lipiner, Bruce Lundvall, Susan
Makarichev, Valerie Marcus, Joe Marziotto, David McLees,
David McMahon, Craig Mellish, Kara Mickley, Renee Moyer,
Vicki Petrella, Kelly Pratt, Maria Racana, Michael Roberson,
Skip Roberts, Sharon Rockefeller, Charlie Sarrica, Phil
Schaap, Meg Anne Schindler, Jon Siegel, Rob Silverberg, Mark
Smith, Jessica Sowin, Amy Strauss, Amanda Tozzi, Angie
Troici. Scott Wenzel, Chris Wheat, John Wriggle, and the
General Motors Corporation, Don Malter, Erin Whelan
Executive Producers: Ken Burns, Ron Goldstein, Jeff Jones
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JAZZ - THE FILM JAZZ
A Film by Ken Burns
Directed by Ken Burns
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward
Produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
Co-Producers: Peter Miller, Victoria Gohl
Supervising Film Editor: Paul Barnes
Episode Editors: Paul Barnes, Sandra Marie Christie, Lewis
Erskine, Erik Ewers, Sarah E. Hill, Craig Mellish, Tricia
Reidy, Shannon Robards, Aaron Vega
Narrated by Keith David
Cinematography: Buddy Squires, Ken Burns
Associate Producers: Sarah Botstein, Natalie Bullock Brown,
Shola Lynch
Advisors: Michael Chertok, James Lincoln Collier, Stanley
Crouch, Michael Cuscuna, Dayton Duncan, Julie Dunfey, Gerald
Early, Tom Evered, Gary Giddins, Matt Glaser, Joanna
Groning, Eric Hosbawm, Robin D.G. Kelley, Charlie Lourie,
Allen Lowe, Albert Murray, Daniel Okrent, Bruce Boyd
Raeburn, Loren Schoenberg, Gunther Schuller, Margaret
Washington
JAZZ is a production of Florentine Films and WETA,
Washington. In association with BBC
A General Motors Mark Of Excellence Presentation
General Motors has been Ken Burns's partner in sharing the
American experience for more than a decade, as both the sole
corporate underwriter of hi s films and sponsor of the
educational programs that bring the lessons of these films
to classrooms across the nation.
Funding for JAZZ is provided by the General Motors
Corporation, PBS, Park Foundation, The Corporation for
Public Broadcasting, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Doris
Duke Charitable Foundation, Louisiana Department of Culture,
Recreation and Tourism, The National Endowment for the
Humanities, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, The Reva
and David Logan Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts,
and Helen and Peter Bing.
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~ ABOUT THE FILM ~
JAZZ, a film by Ken Burns, is a ten-part documentary
premiering on Public Television in January of 2001 as a
General Motors Mark of Excellence Presentation. The series
revolves around the stories of such brilliant musicians and
compelling personalities as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington,
Chick Webb, Fletcher Henderson, Benny Goodman, Billie
Holiday, Artie Shaw, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Dizzy
Gillespie, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, Art Blakey, Ornette
Coleman, and Miles Davis. Beginning with the birth of jazz
at the dawn of the 20th century, the film presents the wide
range of American cultural and historical events that
interact directly with the music - among them the harsh
racial polarization of the 1890s and early 20th
century; the artistic and political ferment of the Harlem
Renaissance; the exuberance of the Jazz Age; the Great
Depression and the New Deal; the Second World War; the
emergence of a youth culture in the 1950s and 1960s; the
hope, anger, and expectations of the civil rights movement;
and the search for identity and authenticity in the 1970s,
1980s, and 1990s.
JAZZ features on-camera observations from over 75 musicians,
historians, writers, critics, and fans including Wynton
Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Gary Giddins, Stanley Crouch,
Margo Jefferson, Ossie Davis, Abbey Lincoln, Jackie McLean,
Gerald Early, Artie Shaw, and Mercedes Ellington. The actor
Keith David is the series narrator, and first person
historical voices are read by Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew
Broderick, James Naughton, Delroy Lindo, Studs Terkel, and
Ann Duquesnay, among others.
