Masters Of American Music()
Documentary
First Air Date: N/A
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Rating: 7.0
Votes: 1
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 10
Masters of American Music is a multi-award-winning television series, as entertaining and memorable as it is educational, it is a must have for any true music fan. The series celebrates a pantheon of the greatest musical innovators with individual programmes tracing the lives and works of master musicians who defined the course of American’s musical history. From the birth of the blues in New Orleans to Swing, Big Band, Bebop, Free Jazz and beyond – all of this rich tapestry is explored with sensitivity and unique depth. The featured artists come to life through conversations with their contemporaries, exciting and rare live performances, period footage and vintage photographs, all of which have been meticulously produced.
Keywords
jazzafrican american historyamerican music
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 10E01
Bluesland - A Portrait In American Music
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Bluesland explores the Blues, with all its poetic irony, sly humour, eroticism and timeless power. A uniquely creativ...
E02
Louis Armstrong – Satchmo
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Born at the turn of the century, Louis Armstrong was a living symbol of 20th Century American culture. He revolutioni...
E03
Count Basie - Swingin' The Blues
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A leading musician of the Swing era and an outstanding representative of the Big Band style, Count Basie was an emine...
E04
Ray Charles - The Genius Of Soul
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Ray Charles was the innovator who fused Gospel, Jazz, and Blues to create modern Soul music. His crossover vision als...
E05
John Coltrane - The World According To John Coltrane
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Innovative, influential, and strongly revered, John Coltrane was the most revolutionary and widely imitated saxophoni...
E06
Billie Holiday - Lady Day - The Many Faces Of Billie Holiday
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This story invites viewers to see the many faces of this “dark lady of the sonnets”, as one poet called her, and to a...
E07
Thelonious Monk – American Composer
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The first fully-rounded portrait of this terribly misunderstood man and musician. He was the pianistic ringleader of ...
E08
Charlie Parker - Celebrating Bird - The Triumph Of Charlie Parker
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One of the great legends in American music, the virtuoso saxophonist Charlie Parker, nicknamed Bird, created a new st...
E09
Sarah Vaughan - The Divine One
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The Divine One recounts the stellar singer’s career, from her beginnings at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Newark, Ne...
E10
The Story Of Jazz
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This episode puts the crown on the Masters of American Music series. As entertaining as it is informative, this is a ...
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