The documentary The Story of Jazz is a seamless array of performances, commentary, and compelling historic insights about jazz, zooming in on the cross-cultural influences that produced this constantly evolving and enduring music. Many call jazz the greatest art form of the 20th century. This absorbing weave of sounds, rare film clips, stills and interviews shows how this truly American expression spread to become a universal, musical language, from the New Orleans traditions, stride, swing, boogie woogie, big band, jump band, blues, bebop, Afro-Cuban, cool, and free-form, to jazz vocalists and dancers… Never before have the filmed comments of so many important great jazz artists been assembled for one project, and never before has the history of jazz been told as vividly and with such attention to historic detail.