History of Jazz: Oxygen For the Ears

Plot Summary

HISTORY OF JAZZ is an award-winning documentary chronicling the rise of jazz music, its players, its followers, its past, and its possible future. Told from the landmark of Washington, D.C., the film shows how jazz history was made and continues to be made in the capital today. Featuring rare recordings and revealing interviews with jazz giants like Esperanza Spalding, Billy Taylor, Buck Hill, Butch Warren, Eric Lewis, Chuchito Valdes, among many others, HISTORY takes an emotional journey through historic and present-day jazz moments.