Jazz (2001) | Full Cast

Ken Burns

DIRECTOR

Keith David

Narrator

Wynton Marsalis

Self

Gary Giddins

Self

Delroy Lindo

Narrator

Kevin Conway

Narrator

Gerald Early

Self

Samuel L. Jackson

Narrator

Philip Bosco

ACTOR

Artie Shaw

Self

Arvell Shaw

Self

Stanley Crouch

Self

Jimmy Rowles

Self

Margo Jefferson

Self

Courtney B. Vance

ACTOR

Branford Marsalis

Self

Ann Duquesnay

ACTOR

George Wein

Self

Jackie McLean

Self

James Lincoln Collier

Self

Harry Connick Jr.

ACTOR

Ossie Davis

Self

Duke Ellington

Self

Studs Terkel

Self - writer

Cassandra Wilson

Self

Dave Brubeck

Self

Sidney Bechet

Self

Milt Hinton

Self

Mercedes Ellington

Self

Stan Levey

Self

Lorraine Gordon

Self

Phil Schaap

Self

Michael Cuscuna

Self

James Maher

Self

Lester Bowie

Self

Matt Glaser

Self

Matthew Broderick

Narrator

Derek Jacobi

ACTOR

Wendy Makkena

ACTOR

Joe Morton

ACTOR

Avery Brooks

ACTOR

Charles Durning

ACTOR

Tom Bower

ACTOR

James Naughton

Narrator

Louis Armstrong

Self

Ethel Waters

Self

Bertrand Tavernier

Self

Billie Holiday

Self

Norma Miller

Self

Benny Goodman

Self

Bessie Smith

Self

Hodding Carter III

ACTOR

Vernel Bagneris

ACTOR

Paul Whiteman

Self

Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton

Self

Jon Hendricks

Self

Joshua Redman

Self

Frankie Manning

Self

Fletcher Henderson

Self

Bix Beiderbecke

Self

Earl 'Fatha' Hines

Self

James P. Johnson

Self

Jay McShann

Self

James Reese Europe

Self

Joe Lovano

Self

Harry Edison

Self

Joya Sherrill

Self

Willie 'The Lion' Smith

Self

Buddy Bolden

Self

Quincy Troupe

Self

Phoebe Jacobs

Self - Publicist

Helen Oakley Dance

Self

Buck O'Neil

Self

Joe Oliver

Self

Adam Arkin

ACTOR

Eriq La Salle

Narrator

Anthony LaPaglia

ACTOR

Amy Madigan

Narrator

Bruce Davison

ACTOR

Cherry Jones

ACTOR

Herbie Hancock

Self

Abbey Lincoln

Self

Allen Ginsberg

Self

Dianne Reeves

Self

Lionel Hampton

Self

Ron Carter

Self

Frances Taylor

Self

Keith Lee Grant

ACTOR

M.C. Solaar

Self

Kevin Ramsey

Narrator

Nat Hentoff

Self - writer

Jimmy Cobb

Self

James Carter

Self

Gonzalo Rubalcaba

Self

Gene Lees

Self

Clark Terry

Self

Doc Cheatham

Self - trumpeter

John Sanders

Self - trombonist

Regina Carter

Self

Johnny Collins

Self

Albert Murray

Self - Writer

Nicholas Payton

Self

Dan Morgenstern

Self

Richard M. Sudhalter

Self - biographer

Jerry Jerome

Self

John Sanders

Self - Former Ellington Trombone Player

Benny Waters

Self - saxophonist

Eric George

ACTOR

Richard Nixon

Self (presents Duke Ellington with Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1969) (archiveFootage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

Edward R. Murrow

Self (interviews Duke Ellington) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

Freeman F. Gosden

Amos (from 'Check and Double Check' (1930)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

Charles J. Correll

Andrew 'Andy' Brown (from 'Check and Double Check' (1930)) (uncredited) (archiveFootage)