In these Monitor seasons we provide a complete introduction to jazz. In these programs on the history of jazz, we provide the listener with the knowledge of scholars and experts on the subject, and we thread them with the expressive virtues of enthusiastic disseminators to compose the most complete panorama of this musical genre: from its prehistory and the early Africanization of American music, to the portraits of the great figures of the twentieth century and the different styles and geographies. All this accompanied by an enormous variety and quantity of essential pieces of the genre - from different periods and styles - to improve the listening of these programs.