Cover image for Jazz. Episode four, The true welcome [DVD video]
Title:
Jazz. Episode four, The true welcome [DVD video]
Publication Date:
2000
Publication Information:
[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video ; Hollywood, Calif. : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c2000.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9781415702451
Abstract:
Amid the hard times of the Depression new dances, the Lindy Hop and Swing, caught on at the dance halls of New York even as the jobless lined the streets and drought ruined Midwest farms. Jazz, during 1929 through 1935, lifted the nation's spirit. Record sales boomed while Armstrong became a major entertainer as singer, trumpeter, band leader, radio and film performer. Ellington's elegance, compositions, brilliant band films and recordings created a huge following in America and abroad. This segment also visits the careers of Fletcher Henderson, Benny Goodman, Billy Rose, Chick Webb, Fats Waller, Art Tatum and the record producer, John Hammond.
General Note:
Title from disc surface.

Full screen version.

Special features include: 52 special music information cards.
Performers:
Commentary: Ossie Davis, Matt Glaser, Jon Hendricks, Wynton Marsalis, Artie Shaw, Arvell Shaw, Albert Murray, Stanley Crouch, James Maher, Gary Giddins, Frankie Manning, James Lincoln Collier, Norma Miller.

Narrator: Keith David.
Language:
English
Additional Language:
Closed captioned.
Added Uniform Title:
Contained in (work): Jazz (Television program)
Audience:
Rated PG (Canadian Home Video Rating)
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