Sunday marks the centennial of Artie Shaw's birth. The late clarinetist displayed an impossibly round, mellow tone from the top to the bottom of the clarinet. He employed loop-de-loop breaks that were ...
Click to open image viewer. This B-flat clarinet (top instrument), serial number 22457, was made by Buffet-Crampon & Cie. Paris, France. 1938. It was previously owned and used by American jazz ...
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 ...
When jazz for the masses in the 1930s implied an impeccably-dressed white man with a clarinet, Artie Shaw, who has died aged 94, was Benny Goodman's main rival. Where Goodman was a child prodigy, Shaw ...
One of the more interesting lives in recent American culture ended on December 30, 2004, when clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw passed away at his modest book-filled home in the Los Angeles suburb ...
A clarinet once owned by the jazz legend Artie Shaw is now proving an inspiration to a teenage musician from Nottingham. Jake Hinson's father bought the instrument for him, it is thought for around ...
Artie Shaw died in 2004 at 94 and this month marks the centennial of his birth but the clarinetist/band leader made his last recordings over half a century earlier with his final Grammercy Five (a ...
Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (Artie Shaw), clarinettist, bandleader and writer: born New York 23 May 1910; married first Margaret Allen (marriage dissolved), second Jane Carns (marriage dissolved), third ...
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 ...