Jazz has inspired some of the most popular TV Series. Here some of the favourites:
"Sax and the City" - a bunch of saxophone players desperately try to find serious musical relations but always end up playing in disturbed jams.
"Orange is the new Black" - Obama-Trump transition from a jazz musician point of view, in women's preason.
"The Simpsounds" - The most musical family of Swingfield faces their archrivals Wes Montgomery Burns and Sideshow Bop.
"Baking Brad" - Walter White apllies his knowledge in chemistry and harmony to cook some pills that make normal people play piano like Brad (Mehldau).
"The Sopranos" - Tony plays "alto" his soprano and spreads tenor in New Jersey. Will he escapte the knits of justice? Will he escape the knits of Kenny G?
"The Walking Dead" - Zombie bass players.
"Dexter" - the story of Gordon, the serial killer that is actually a good guy and only kills people of mess up the harmony during his solos.
"Lost" - after an accidental (double sharp) a group of musicians wake up in a bizarre jam, lost in harmony, in a wierd theme they have never heard before.
"The Twilight Zone" - Anthology of thoughts musicians have when their solos are going really bad. Must like (Herbie) "Hancock Presents"
"WesWorld" - Action unfolds in a futuristic amusement park populated by clones of Wes Montgomery.
"House of Kurt's" - A jazz guitar player does not look to the means to ascend to the presidency.
"Jam of Thrones" - Seven clans from Westerbops and Jazzos (dixilanders, swingers, beboppers, hardboppers, freejazzers, modalists and modernjazzers) fight for the throne in a jam frequented by dragons, wolves and owls.
"The Big Band Theory" - A very technical series about large ensemble arrangement.
"The Bridge" - Nordic police series focuses on crimes against jazz committed in the B section of several popular tunes.
"Prison Solo Break" - To save his brother Lincoln, stuck in a maximum security harmonic grate ("Giant Steps", at 350bpm, in 15/8, in 12 keys), Micheal Scofield (cousin of John) tatoos the tune's chords in his body. Will they escape the complex modulations?
"Mr. Robop" - Elliot Alteredson (keyboard specialist...qwerty) forms a modern jazz duet with an imaginary friend that is also his father.
"The Axe Files" - Spooky trombones, haunted trumpets, possessed saxofones, E.S.P., Withcraft...mediums....medium up...fast. Where supernatural meets superlocrian.
"Hill Street Blues" - Andrew Hill and Ben Street play the blues. Curiously, in the portuguese version, they play balads.
"Bops" - day-to-day life of bebop musicians. Bad boys, bad bops. The iconic Charlie Parker tune serves as soundtrack.
"MAS*H" - Melodic Applications of Superstructural Harmony. ABout three doctors applying advanced jazz improvisation technics in Corea war.
"Better Call Stella" - Saul, Walter White's lawyer, after the success of "Codfish Wats Garlic" takes part in a number of jams but always asks for "Stella by Starlight"
Honorable mentions:
- "How I Met Your Drummer"
- "Blakey Mirror"
- "The Bb Team"
- "Stranger Swings"
- "Arrested Melodic Development"