Jazz > 5, Swing: Pure pleasure
a production of Florentine Films and WETA, Washington D.C. in association with BBC; a film by Ken Burns
- Resource Type:
- Streaming Video
- Publication:
- Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2000]
- Copyright:
- ©2000
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- Summary:
- In the mid 1930s, as the Great Depression refuses to lift, Benny Goodman finds himself hailed as the "King of Swing" and becomes the first white bandleader to hire black musicians. He has a host or rivals among them, Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmie Lunceford, Glen Miller and Artie Shaw. Louis Armstrong heads a big band of his own, while Duke Ellington continues his independent course, but great black artists still can't eat or sleep in many of the hotels where they perform. Billie Holiday emerges from a childhood of tragedy to begin her career as the greatest of all female jazz singers.
- Contributors:
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
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- Performers:
- Commentary: Wynton Marsalis, Artie Shaw, Joya Sherrill, Albert Murray, Margo Jefferson, James Maher, Gary Giddins, James Lincoln Collier, Milt Hinton, John Sanders, Dave Brubeck, Harry Edison, Jimmy Rowles, Lionel Hampton, Helen Oakley Dance, Stan Levy.
Narrator: Keith David. - Production Credits:
- Director, Ken Burns ; writer, Geoffrey C. Ward ; producers, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick ; episode editors, Tricia Reidy, Sarah E. Hill, Shannon Robards.
- General Notes:
- Documentary.
"PBS DVD gold."
Streaming Media
Video On Demand
Digital format: Restricted to the University of North Texas System.
Digital format: Electronic reproduction. Denton, Texas : UNT Media Library, 2007. Digitized and made available by PBS. - Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (90 min.)) : sound, color with black and white sequences.
- Audio Characteristics:
- digital
- Digital Characteristics:
- video file
- Call Numbers:
- Online Video
- Other Standard Numbers:
- Publisher Number, Warner Home Video: B8267D
- OCLC Numbers:
- 1053005275
