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 ...

On the upcoming 100th anniversary of Artie Shaw's birth, Fresh Air remembers one of jazz's greatest clarinetists and big-band leaders with excerpts from a 1985 interview. In the 1930s and '40s, the ...

Just in time for the 100th anniversary of his birth, AirTalk remembers legendary jazz clarinetist and band leader Artie Shaw. Despite big hits including Begin the Beguine, Frenesi and Stardust, and ...

Artie Shaw, who died yesterday at age 94 at his home in Thousand Oaks, Calif., was a clarinetist and bandleader who swiped Downbeat magazine’s “King of Swing” moniker from Benny Goodman in 1938.

In Eastern cities and towns last week, jitterbugs by the thousand laid their dollars on the line to hear a new dance band. The band belonged to dark, dapper, moody Clarinetist Artie Shaw, who two ...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - Artie Shaw, the clarinetist and bandleader whose recording of Begin the Beguine" epitomized the Big Band era, died Thursday at his home. He was 94. Shaw had been in declining ...

Artie Shaw, a top big band leader and clarinetist, died Dec. 30 at his home near Los Angeles at age 94. Born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky on New York’s Lower East Side, the son of Jewish immigrant ...

The education Aesthetic Realism, founded by American poet and critic Eli Siegel (1902 -1978), describes what makes for beauty in music and shows how music comments centrally on what we're hoping for ...

The Anderson Brothers will play Artie Shaw at the Birdland Theater, NYC next month. Performances will run July 4, 5, 6, with shows at 7:00 & 9:30pm. Artie Shaw once said, “An artist should write for ...

VENTURA, Calif. - A jury has awarded the ex-wife of the late jazz clarinetist and band leader Artie Shaw $1.42 million, which accounts for about half of his estate. Evelyn Keyes, the last of Shaw's ...

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 ...