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Benny Goodman : adventures in the kingdom of Swing

Benny Goodman : adventures in the kingdom of Swing

DVD 2000

A comprehensive documentary covering Goodman's career, this biography includes rare performance footage from the '20s and '30s, studio rehearsal footage from the '50s, home movies, rare audio tracks, and video footage of Goodman recounting his own life. Includes interviews with family, friends, and jazz contemporaries.

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Benny Goodman Band
Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986
Jazz musicians United States Biography
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ISBN:
9780738901107
0738901105
Description:
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
digital optical
videodisc
DVD
video file DVD video
Target Audience Note:
Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated
Other Title:
Adventures in the kingdom of swing
American masters (Television program)
Notes:
"Narration based in part on 'Adventures in the kingdom of Swing, ' The Otis Ferguson reader."
Originally produced in 1993 as a segment of: American masters
Director of photography, Mead Hunt; editors, Victor Kanefsky, Mary Costanza; narrator, David Strathairn; consultants, Russ Connor ... [and others]
DVD
Contents:
Sing, sing, sing
A fine romance
Don't be that way
Bugle call rag
Avalon
What a little moonlight can do
Let's dance
California, here I come
You turned the tables on me
The world is waiting for a [id est the] sunrise
I've got a heart full of music
Where or when
Clarinetitis
Tiger rag
Vibraphone blues
Roll 'em
Why don't you do right
Hot house
Gotta be this or that
Control Number:
959150
UPC:
074644918694
Other Authors:
Antelope Films, Ltd
Benny Goodman Band
Ferguson, Otis, 1907-1943. Works. Selections. 1982
Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986
Jacoby, Oren
Meridian Productions, Inc
Strathairn, David
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
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