In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.

介绍美国从上世纪初到80年代的Jazz音乐发展﹐一连十集﹐1200分钟.节目是各位响当当的爵士乐手/歌手的珍贵演出片断及照片﹐还有大量的访问，种族隔离，各种审查制度的影响十集.1200分锺由Ken Burns 操刀﹐集合了75个珍贵访问.500段音乐选段2400张照片加上2000条影片﹐以6年时间制作。使到笔者接触爵士乐多年来首次欣赏到 Artie Shaw﹑Benny Goodman﹑Glen Miller﹑Billie Holiday 等的演出片段.

A documentary on avant-garde saxophonist Albert Ayler