This program profiles, with first-hand observation and historical detail, the pivotal people and places in American jazz. Includes archive footage of performances. Ella Fitzgerald ; Willie "The Lion" Smith ; Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Lunceford ; Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Gil Evans, The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Charles Mingus, Sarah Vaughan,...

Tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Carmine Polito is the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the cons and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn could be the...