Jazz - 100 ans de légende
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Réalisé par Ken Burns • Écrit par Ken Burns
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États-Unis • 2001 • 750 minutes • Couleur et Noir & Blanc
- Réalisation :
Ken Burns - Écriture :
Ken Burns - Image :
Buddy Squires, Ken Burns - Montage :
Paul Barnes, Sandra Marie Christie, Lewis Erskine, Erik Ewers, Sarah E. Hill, Craig Mellish, Shannon Robards, Tricia Reidy, Aaron Vega
- Production (structure) :
Florentine Films - Diffuseur :
BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation - Ayant droit :
Florentine Films
- N° ISAN :
non renseigné
Résumé
Après 6 années de travail, le réalisateur Ken Burns offre une série d’une rare richesse : des centaines d’enregistrements inédits, des images de concerts, des interviews exclusives et des archives inédites qui retracent un siècle de musique jazz. On rrtrouve tous les plus grands artistes dont le talent et la créativité ont écrit l’histoire du jazz.
Avec : Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Django Reinhardt, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Dave Brubeck, Glenn Miller, John Coltrane, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan.
Jazz is a ten part series that explores the evolution – and the genius – of America’s greatest original art form, focusing on the extraordinary men and women who could do something remarkable – create art on the spot. Jazz celebrates their profoundly enduring, endlessly varied, and infinitely alluring music in the context of the complicated country that gave birth to and influenced it, and was in turn transformed by it. The series offers complex and engaging portraits of many of the greatest figures in jazz – among them Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Bix Beiderbecke, Fletcher Henderson, Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
Jazz is about much more than the evolution of the music alone. The film is about sex and romance, and the rituals of courtship in America; it is about joy and celebration, and having a good time; it is about our greatest cities and the people who migrated to them; it is about the rise of records, radio, and television. Jazz is about minstrelsy and lynching, and the struggle for civil rights. It is about the sufferings of the Great Depression, and the sacrifices our nation made in two world wars. It is also a story about drugs and dissipation and pain – and the life-affirming art that comes out of it all.
