“Everytime I change the toilet paper, I think of Artie Shaw.” This quote comes courtesy of Evelyn Keyes, the actress best remembered by noir enthusiasts for her turn as a femme fatale in “The Prowler” ...

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 ...

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, 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.

A year after the Glenn Miller Orchestra played there, the Artie Shaw Or-chestra will play the Fargo Theatre on June 18. The group features big band music by the late clarinet-playing band leader, who ...

I've long known that Artie Shaw was outspoken, mercurial and blunt. As a boy wonder in the band business in the 1930s, Shaw was also temperamental and didn't tolerate boredom or repetition for long.

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 (19102004) is the subject of Tom Nolan's biography, "Three Chords for Beauty's Sake," a compelling, day-to-day recap of a great musical talent. Shaw, a consummate artist, was bedeviled by ...

When the younger jazzmen did away with Dixieland and big-band swing and dove into the cool depths of bop and progressive jazz, they also left behind the sweet, lucid sound of the clarinet. Once known ...