This DVD features interviews, rare performances, period footage, and vintage photographs remastered and restored, to present an excellent overview of the history of jazz. Artists appearing include Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie, Tony Bennett, Lester Bowie, Dave Brubeck, Joe Williams, Buck Clayton, Illinois Jacquet, Zilner Randolph, Bud Freeman, Randy Weston, Carmen McRae, Billy Taylor, Jay McShann, Roy Haynes, Billy Eckstine, Rashied Ali, and many others. Music from ragtime, dixieland, early big bands, singers, bebop & avant-garde forms the soundtrack.