(Ken Burns opens the category for us.) On January 8, 2001 the series "Jazz" premiered with a look at this birthplace of jazz, the USA's most cosmopolitan city at the turn of the 20th century
This ten-part series explores the development of the 
American .... in America from turn-of-the-century African American vaudeville and 
... American Routes: Giants of Jazz: Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane.