Swing Era: Big Band Legends

Synopsis of Swing Era: Big Band Legends

«Swing Era: Big Band Legends» is a music documentary featuring performances by Artie Shaw and Tommy Dorsey, released by Idem on DVD (2014).

A compilation of performances from the swing era, with black-and-white archive footage of the great bands that shaped American popular music. Includes numbers by Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Stan Kenton, June Christy and Helen Forrest, in a program of about sixty minutes with jazz and big band classics.

Original language: English. Black-and-white image, aspect ratio 1.33:1. One disc; regions 1 and 0. Release: January 22, 2014.

For fans of classic jazz, swing and big bands, with an interest in the history of twentieth-century popular music.