Jazz Gumbo: Beginnings to 1917 (Season 1, Episode 1)
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TV Episode | 87 min | Documentary, History, Music

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Gumbo: Beginnings to 1917 (Season 1, Episode 1)

TV-PG

TV Episode | 87 min | Documentary, History, Music

Jazz begins in New Orleans, 19th century America's most cosmopolitan city, where the sound of marching bands, Italian opera, Caribbean rhythms, and minstrel shows fills the streets with a richly diverse musical culture. In the 1890s, ...See moreJazz begins in New Orleans, 19th century America's most cosmopolitan city, where the sound of marching bands, Italian opera, Caribbean rhythms, and minstrel shows fills the streets with a richly diverse musical culture. In the 1890s, African-American musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Buddy Bolden and Sydney Bichet create a new music out of these ingredients. Soon after the start of the new century, people are calling it jazz. Written by Anonymous See less

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