Masters Of American Music

Bluesland explores the Blues, with all its poetic irony, sly humour, eroticism and timeless power. A uniquely creative and highly visual look at Ameri...

Born at the turn of the century, Louis Armstrong was a living symbol of 20th Century American culture. He revolutionized the world of music and became...

A leading musician of the Swing era and an outstanding representative of the Big Band style, Count Basie was an eminent bandleader and jazz pianist. H...

Ray Charles was the innovator who fused Gospel, Jazz, and Blues to create modern Soul music. His crossover vision also widened the scope of Country an...

Innovative, influential, and strongly revered, John Coltrane was the most revolutionary and widely imitated saxophonist in Jazz. Using previously unse...

This story invites viewers to see the many faces of this “dark lady of the sonnets”, as one poet called her, and to appreciate her undying art more de...

The first fully-rounded portrait of this terribly misunderstood man and musician. He was the pianistic ringleader of the Bebop revolution and was, aft...

One of the great legends in American music, the virtuoso saxophonist Charlie Parker, nicknamed Bird, created a new style of Jazz and also won equal fa...

The Divine One recounts the stellar singer’s career, from her beginnings at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, to her debut at the Apo...

This episode puts the crown on the Masters of American Music series. As entertaining as it is informative, this is a seamless array of performances, c...