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Jazz

Swing: Pure Pleasure

Season 1 Episode 5

As the Great Depression drags on, jazz comes as close as it has ever come to being America's popular music

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During the Sixties, jazz is in trouble.
The Adventure
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Currents of change in American now impact Jazz.
Risk
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The postwar years bring America to a level of prosperity unimaginable a decade before.
Dedicated to Chaos
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When America enters World War II, jazz is part of the arsenal.
Swing: The Velocity of Celebration
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A new sound emerges- pulsing, stomping, suffused with the blues.
The True Welcome
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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.
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JAZZ begins in New Orleans, nineteenth century America's most cosmopolitan city.
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