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Ken Burns' Jazz, Episode 5: Swing - Pure Pleasure, 1935-1937 ()

directed by Ken Burns
featuring Keith David, Wynton Marsalis

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Ken Burns' Jazz, Episode 5: Swing - Pure Pleasure, 1935-1937 - Ken Burns
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Episode five of Ken Burns' series deals with jazz during the increasingly bleak Great Depression from 1935 to 1937. Swing music is now the most popular music of the time. Young fans flock to dance halls to swing their troubles away. Bandleaders such as Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmie Lunceford, and Artie Shaw are worshipped by their fans like matinee idols. Then Goodman, risking his career, forms the first racially integrated jazz group with the brilliant pianist Teddy Wilson. Meanwhile, Billie Holiday emerges from a ...

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