"Jazz," a film by Ken Burns , follows the growth and development of jazz music from the streets of New Orleans to the Lincoln Gardens in Chicago, where Louis Armstrong first won fame, from Prohibition-era speakeasies to the wide-open clubs of Kansas City, from the elegant Roseland Ballroom in Times Square to the more egalitarian Savoy Ballroom in Harlem.
Now, you can explore that same history through a Spotify playlist of songs by those who created the quintessential American art form. Check it out below.
