In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".

Betty Boop and friends meet Louis Armstrong on a jungle safari.

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

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.

Experience the jaw-dropping spectacle of Coldplay's World Tour, Music Of The Spheres, as it broadcasts worldwide to your live cinema at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires.