Last Date

A look at the history of jazz, which has its origins in the music of Africans enslaved to North America 300 years ago.

In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie Parker nicknamed Bird just died, at 34. His...

Elijah Jamal Balbed grew up in Washington DC in the midst of one of its most difficult eras, as its identity was being tested. As the city changed...

Reissue of Standards Trio concerts; originally released separately as Live at Open Theater East and Trio Concert 1996

Sun Ra, Archie Shepp and company in concert in Paris, 1984. Documents performances and rehearsals in Paris, France, 1984. It includes the...

Kansas City PBS is proud to present a documentary that looks back at the years Charlie “Bird” Parker spent in Kansas City and his lasting...

Oscar Peterson and Andre Previn look at some of the styles and personalities involved in the development of piano jazz.

Jutta Hipp defied the odds and made it to the heart of the male-dominated jazz scene in 1950s New York.

Legendary Brazilian composer and singer Antônio Carlos Jobim delivers a masterful performance at the world famous Montreal Jazz Festival in...

"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label...

Alvin Queen is one of the best jazz drummers of all time. A child prodigy, he played with the greatest masters (Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie,...

Tenor saxophonist, composer and producer Kamasi Washington and his band perform a special show at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater for the theatre's...