Jazz - Season 1 - Eps 5: Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-1937

Name: Eps 5: Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-1937
Released: 2001-01-17
Rating: 3.8

2001-01-17 • 89 min • ⭐ 7.5/10

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.

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About Jazz

Title: Jazz

First Air Date: 2001-01-09

Last Air Date: 2001-01-31

Status: Ended

Rating: 7.5/10 (from 30 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 2

Total Episodes: 10

Network: PBS

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: PBS, Florentine Films, WETA, BBC

Synopsis

Jazz is a ten part series that explores the evolution – and the genius – of America’s greatest original art form, focusing on the extraordinary men and women who could do something remarkable – create art on the spot. Jazz celebrates their profoundly enduring, endlessly varied, and infinitely alluring music in the context of the complicated country that gave birth to and influenced it, and was in turn transformed by it.