Filmmaker Ken Burns charts the development of a true American art form, jazz, in this 10 part series. The beginnings of jazz in New Orleans inthe 1890 and the stories of practitioners including Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet and the Origi nal Dixieland Jass Band, are chronicled in this first episode. DVD includes " Making of Jazz " featurette. Closed captioned.