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Chick Webb
Series
Jazz volume episode 5
Publisher
PBS DVD Gold
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
1935-1937: Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw--musicians become matinee idols. Billie Holiday emerges from a tragic childhood to become jazz's greatest female singer. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances.
Series
Jazz volume episode 6
Publisher
PBS DVD Gold
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
1937-1939: The Depression can't stop swing as startling new voices and sounds are heard, including Count Basie, Lester Young, Ella Fitzgerald, and Coleman Hawkins. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances.
Publisher
Rhino
Pub. Date
p1999.
Language
English
Description
"The first-ever box set celebrating the top female artists of 20th century popular music. Featuring over 110 songs by the superstars of rock, alternative, r & b, country, hip-hop, jazz, blues, folk, Broadway, big band, and more ... plus a beautiful 80-page book with historical essays and color photos ... [each disc contains] sound bites by influential women, from Amelia Earhart to Madeleine Albright."--Sticker on shrink-wrap.