Jazz
Season 1 • Episode 7: Dedicated to Chaos: 1940-1945 • Watch with subtitles
Episode 7: Dedicated to Chaos: 1940-1945
January 23, 2001 • 113 min
"Dedicated to Chaos" finds jazz musicians teetering on the brink of the modern era, fighting against the straightjacket of clichéd, big band arrangements. The revolution started at Minton’s Playhouse, a rundown club where musicians like Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Christian jammed on Monday nights. When they hooked up with a young saxophone player from Kansas City named Charlie Parker, the bop insurgency had arrived.
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