"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.
