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You can stream Jazz (2001) on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel with a subscription.

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.

This documentary transcends the typical dry history lesson by capturing the spontaneous magic of musicians improvising in real time. You will witness how a single improvised note can shift the entire trajectory of American culture.