TELEVISION: “JAZZ: Risk (1945-1955)”

This segment in the Ken Burns “JAZZ” series follows the development and extension of Bebop in the post-WWII years. With its broken rhythms and dissonant melodies, bebop reflected the underlying anxieties of the Cold War’s threat of nuclear annihilation and the growing racial justice tensions and activism that propelled the Civil Rights Movement.  11:00pm, PBS-Wisconsin.