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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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