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Swing the velocity of celebration

Sixth of 10 episodes tracing the history of Jazz from its roots in the African-American community of New Orleans, this video is set in the late 1930's. Swing is still a national craze that keeps on growing despite the Depression. Performers include Count Basie, Lester Young, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins and Duke Ellington.

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  • "Velocity of celebration"@en

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  • "As the 1930s come to a close, Swing-mania is still going strong, but some fans are saying success has made the music too predictable. Their ears are tuned to a new sound - pulsing, stomping, suffused with the blues. It's the Kansas City sound of Count Basie's band and it quickly reignites the spirit of Swing. By 1938, Basie and his men are helping Benny Goodman bring jazz to Carnegie Hall. After the show, they travel uptown to battle Chick Webb to a draw at the Savoy Ballroom. And that summer, they turn 52nd Street into 'Swing Street, ' performing nightly at the Famous Door. Soon Basie's lead saxophonist, Lester Young, is challenging Coleman Hawkins for supremacy, matching the old sax-master's muscular sound with a laid-back style of his own. Young teams with Billie Holiday for a series of recordings that reveals them as musical soulmates, and tours with her in Basie's band until she leaves to join Artie Shaw. But America isn't ready for a black woman who swings with white musicians and Holiday is soon back in New York, pouring her outrage into the anti-lynching ballad, Strange Fruit. By the decade's end, Chick Webb has taken a chance on a teenage singer named Ella Fitzgerald and achieved the fame he dreamed of. Duke Ellington has been hailed as a hero in Europe, amid anxious preparations for war. And weeks after that war begins, Coleman Hawkins startles the world with a glimpse of what jazz will become, improvising a new music on the old standard, Body and Soul."
  • "Sixth of 10 episodes tracing the history of Jazz from its roots in the African-American community of New Orleans, this video is set in the late 1930's. Swing is still a national craze that keeps on growing despite the Depression. Performers include Count Basie, Lester Young, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins and Duke Ellington."@en
  • "Traces the origins and history of jazz, focusing on the swing phenomenon of the late 1930's and performers such as Count Basie, Lester Young, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, and Ella Fitzgerald."@en

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  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Nonfiction television programs"
  • "Music"
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  • "Documentary television programs"
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  • "Swing: The Velocity of Celebration"
  • "Swing, the Velocity of Celebration"
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