Jazz. Part 5, Swing: Pure Pleasure / Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.).
As the Depression dragged on, jazz came as close as it ever would to being America's popular music. Now it was often called swing, and, as this program illustrates, it became the defining music of a generation. Suddenly, jazz bandleaders were the new matinee idols, with Benny Goodman hailed as the "...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Infobase,
[2011], ©2000.
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| Series: | Films on Demand.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (110 min.) : sound, color, digital file. |
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Swing: Pure Pleasure |
| Format: | Electronic Video |
Contents:
- Swing: Pure Pleasure (5:47)
- King of Swing - Benny Goodman (8:22)
- Dreaming (4:51)
- Dreaming - Louis Armstrong's Recovery (2:39)
- Dreaming - Louis Armstrong's Movie Days (3:46)
- Dreaming - Big Bands (12:20)
- The Business Part (4:07)
- The Road (9:39)
- Like Taking a Drug (5:16)
- Men Working Together (9:07)
- Men Working Together - Billie Holiday (7:44)
- Do You Remember? (6:07)
- Coda (2:39)
- Credits: 'Swing: Pure Pleasure, Ken Burns: Jazz, Part 5' (2:33)