Jazz Filmography

• 3 Wishes
  2006, role: actress , character name: Workout Girl
• Reality Teens Gone Crazy
  2003, role: actress
• The World's Luckiest Black Man
  1999, role: actress
• Black Bangin'
  1998, role: actress
• Black Erotic Moments 5
  1998, role: actress
• Harem 74
  1998, role: actress
• Action Man
  1998, role: actress
• 33 Girl Jam
  1998, role: actress

Jazz Filmography

• Chocoholic
  2001, role: actress
• Licorice Stick
  2001, role: actress
• Bang'er 15 Times
  1992, role: actress
• Battle of the Ultra Milkmaids
  1992, role: actress
• Excitable
  1992, role: actress
• The Grafenberg Spot
  1985, role: actress , character name: Sex Show Viewer

Jazz Filmography

• Coupled with Love
  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself

Jazz

This series explores the history of the major American musical form. We track its development in African American culture, its rise to prominence with its golden age of popularity spanning from the 1920's to the mid 1940's both in its original form and in Swing through its popular decline and the rise of vital new sub-genres into the present day. Along the way, we learn of the lives and work of major contributors to the form such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Charlie "Bird" Parker and many others who helped form Jazz into the vibrant musical form it is. Moreover, we see how the music reflected the political and social issues of the African American community over the course of the form's history.

Cast

• Keith David
• Sly Stone

• Season 1
• Episode 1: Gumbo: Beginnings to 1917
  Jazz begins in New Orleans, 19th century America's most cosmopolitan city, where the sound of marchi...
• Episode 2: The Gift: 1917-1924
  Speakeasies, flappers, and easy money - it's the Jazz Age, when the story of jazz becomes a tale of ...
• Episode 3: Our Language: 1924 -1929
  In the 1920s, jazz is everywhere, and for the first time soloists and singers take center stage. We ...
• Episode 4: The True Welcome: 1929-1934
  In 1929 as the Great Depression begins, New York is now America's jazz capital. On Broadway, Louis A...
• Episode 5: Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-1937
  As the Great Depression drags on, jazz comes as close as it has ever come to being America's popular...
• Episode 6: Swing: The Velocity of Celebration - 1937-1939
  As the 1930's come to a close, Swing-mania is still going strong, but some fans are saying success h...
• Episode 7: Dedicated to Chaos: 1940-1945
  When America enters World War II, jazz is part of the arsenal. Bandleaders like Glenn Miller and Art...
• Episode 8: Risk: 1945-1955
  The postwar years bring prosperity, but the Cold War threat makes these anxious years as well. In ja...
• Episode 9: The Adventure: 1956-1960
  For jazz, the late 1950s is a period of transition when old stars like Billie Holiday and Lester You...
• Episode 10: A Masterpiece by Midnight: 1960 to the Present
  During the Sixties, jazz is in trouble. Though Louis Armstrong briefly outsells the Beatles with "He...