Continuing Ken Burns's documentary series on the history of jazz music. As the first jazz record goes on sale in 1917, jazz becomes the soundtrack to the modern world of prohibition, speakeasies and new wealth. Tonight's second episode focuses on jazz in Chicago and New York, and on the emergence of two artists, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, who went on to dominate jazz music.
(Continues tomorrow at 11.20pm)
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Followed by 48 Preludes and Fugues
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