
1 Wā
10 Episode
Jazz - Season 1 Episode 5
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.
- Tau: 2001
- Whenua: United States of America
- Momo: Documentary
- Studio: PBS
- Kupu matua: jazz, jazz singer or musician
- Kaiwhakahaere:
- Maka: Keith David, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw