1 Season
10 Episode
Jazz - Season 1 Episode 5 Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-1937
1935 was the year that swing became the most popular music in the country and that the king of swing, Benny Goodman, became a matinee idol. Americans, stifled by the Depression, seemed determined to dance their troubles away. "Swing: Pure Pleasure" follows the continuing careers of Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Armstrong, and the discovery of Billie Holiday.
- Year: 2001
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- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS
- Keyword: jazz, jazz singer or musician
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- Cast: Keith David, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw