Remembering Artie Shaw By Mike Zwerin A time when clarinetists were matinee idols is difficult to imagine today. In addition to being the loss of a fine musician and an extraordinary human being, the death of Artie Shaw earlier this month at the age of 94 is a...
One of the sole surviving great lions of the big band swing era, master clarinetist-bandleader Artie Shaw helped define a key era in American music history. According to an issue of TIME magazine on the dawn of WWII, to the German populace Artie Shaw represented...
By: John Robert Brown Past Chairman of the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain The 29th Annual International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) Conference took place on Jan 9th -12th 2002, at Long Beach, California. Daily temperatures were in the...
6 Interesting Facts about Artie Shaw 1. Artie Shaw was born in New York City in 1910, and grew up in Haven, Connecticut.2. Shaw learned to play the sax and clarinet at a young age, and started performing professionally while still a teenager.3. He had a successful...
Sunn Classic Pictures, Inc. (“Sunn”) announced today that it has acquired all rights related to the motion picture, television and all other ancillary rights related to the life story of bandleader and composer Artie Shaw. PALM SPRINGS, CA (PRWEB) AUGUST 3, 2010 Sunn...
