Using archival footage, historic photographs, filmed performances, and recorded interviews with musicians and historians, this ten part documentary series explores the history of jazz and its influence on American music.
When sax player Charlie "Bird" Parker and trumpeter Dizzy "Diz" Gillespie play together, they toss notes back and forth, pushing each other to create a new kind of music.
Traces the development of bebop music, with an analysis of its transition from jazz, comments on the contributions made by specific performers, and discusses bebop as an art form and commercial phenomenon.
