Swing Era: Benny Goodman

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Jazz legend Benny Goodman is just one of a handful of big band greats who appear on this home-video collection, which features over 30 vintage "soundies" -- performance clips created for a short-lived series of visual jukeboxes manufactured in the 1940s. Swing Era: Benny Goodman includes two numbers from the clarinet virtuoso, as well as rare footage of Artie Shaw, Jimmy Dorsey, Jack Teagarden, and Hoagy Carmichael. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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	John H.

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This may be the worst case of false advertising I've seen in the DVD market. The Goodman content consists of a snippet of Avalon and one other tune which I'd never heard before. The rest of the DVD spotlights more of Artie Shaw and Jimmy Dorsey than Goodman but the bulk (maybe 75%) of the DVD is actually Teagarden who is hardly what I'd consider a master of swing. In reality it should have been titled as a Teagarden collection. There are several DVDs in this collection titled (Swing Era:). I would be reluctant to rent any others without knowing more about the content than just the name theoretically spotlighted in the title.

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