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May 31, 2007

Season 1

01. Blues Beginnings

Morgan Freeman charts the history and influence of American music from rhythm and blues to rap through interviews, archive footage and live performances.

May 31, 2007

02. Travelling Blues

Morgan Freeman examines the British blues boom of the 1960s, when bands including Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones helped bring the genre to a white audience.

June 7, 2007

03. Sounds Of Jazz

Morgan Freeman tells the story of the first few decades of jazz, from its birthplace in New Orleans and the big-band eras to bebop and other post-war developments.

June 14, 2007

04. Free Jazz To Future Jazz

Morgan Freeman continues charting the history of jazz, relating how after the bebop revolution of the 1940s, free jazz was formulated by Ornette Coleman in the late 1950s.

June 21, 2007

05. Soul Stirrings

Morgan Freeman traces the ancestry of soul music, which had its roots in the 1950s when gospel and R'n'B came together through the work of Ray Charles.

June 28, 2007

06. Heart Of Soul

Morgan Freeman recalls the heydays of the Motown and Stax record labels in the 1960s and 70s, and explores the work of neo-soul singers such as Angie Stone.

July 5, 2007