Artie Shaw will always be a bit of a puzzle to his fans--"morons, “ as he once characterized some of us. The best band he ever fronted, and said so more than once, was his 1949-50 “bop" band. Benny ...

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Savor the sounds of big band jazz and swing with this compendium of live performance clips from some of the genres most legendary musicians Besides innovative clarinetist composer and bandleader Artie ...

Artie Shaw's first feature-length film was Second Chorus, in 1940. By then, the 30-year-old clarinetist was earning up to $60,000 a week ($1.1 million in today's dollars), becoming the best-paid and ...

Clarinetist, composer and bandleader Artie Shaw was a true American original. He was also a reluctant celebrity. Coming up, we'll hear Shaw's 1940 Concerto for Clarinet, in concert from the Hot ...

Artie Shaw (Avraham Ben-Yitzhak Arshawsky) (1910-2004), a jazz and popular music legend, was a clarinet virtuoso and one of the leading bandleaders of the 20th century. He organized and led several of ...

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