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Our Language

Season 1 Episode 3 | 1hr 46m 40s

As the stock market continues to soar, jazz is everywhere in America, and now, for the first time soloists and singers take center stage, transforming the music with their distinctive voices and the unique stories they have to tell.

Aired: 12/14/15 | Expires: 02/07/21
Funding provided by: General Motors;PBS; Park Foundation; CPB; The Pew Charitable Trusts; The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism; NEH; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; The Reva and David Logan Foundation; The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundations; NEA; Helen and Peter Bing
Extras
During the Sixties, jazz is in trouble.
Currents of change in American now impact Jazz.
The postwar years bring America to a level of prosperity unimaginable a decade before.
A new sound emerges- pulsing, stomping, suffused with the blues.
As the Depression drags on, jazz comes as close as ever to being America's music
Jazz is called upon to lift the spirits of a frightened country.
Louis Armstrong shows the whole world how to swing.
JAZZ begins in New Orleans, nineteenth century America's most cosmopolitan city.
When America enters World War II, jazz is part of the arsenal.
Louis Armstrong's triumphant return to Europe.
During the Sixties, jazz is in trouble.
Currents of change in American now impact Jazz.
The postwar years bring America to a level of prosperity unimaginable a decade before.
A new sound emerges- pulsing, stomping, suffused with the blues.
As the Depression drags on, jazz comes as close as ever to being America's music
Jazz is called upon to lift the spirits of a frightened country.
Louis Armstrong shows the whole world how to swing.
JAZZ begins in New Orleans, nineteenth century America's most cosmopolitan city.
When America enters World War II, jazz is part of the arsenal.