Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-1937 Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns : Season 1 Episode 5
PBS 1h 48m
Aired: January 17th, 2001 @ 12:00 AM EST on PBS
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.
