Jazz. Episode three, Our language [DVD video]

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Title:

Added Author:

Burns, Ken, 1953- television director, television producer.

David, Keith, narrator.

Ward, Geoffrey C., screenwriter.

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:

By 1924 to 1928 jazz is everywhere in America and spreading abroad. For the first time, soloists and singers take center stage, transforming the music with their distinctive voices. This episode traces the careers of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Sidney Bechet, Bessie Smith, Earl Hines, Ethel Waters, Bix Beiderbecke, the first great white jazz artist and Benny Goodman, the son of Jewish immigrants.

General Note:

Title from disc surface.

Special features include: 57 special music information cards.

Performers:

Commentary: Jon Hendricks, Wynton Marsalis, Artie Shaw, Stanley Crouch, Gerald Early, Margo Jefferson, Gary Giddins, Doc Cheatham, James Lincoln Collier, Studs Terkel, Richard Sudhalter, John Sanders.

Narrator: Keith David.

Personal Subject:

Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971.

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.

Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959.

Smith, Bessie, 1898?-1937.

Beiderbecke, Bix, 1903-1931.

Hines, Earl, 1903-1983.

Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977.

Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986

Shaw, Artie, 1910-2004.

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