But the band's final months were its most exciting. By mid-August, bookings for the band were drying up on the West Coast, and little was lined up for the fall. Then, at month's end, Shaw was asked by ...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Artie Shaw, the clarinetist and bandleader whose recording of “Begin the Beguine” epitomized the Big Band era, died yesterday at his home. He was 94. Mr. Shaw had been in ...

Artie Shaw, clarinetist and bandleader whose recording of "Begin the Beguine" epitomized the Big Band era, died Thursday at his home in California at the age of 94. Shaw had been ill for some time and ...

“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 (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 ...

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, 94, the dynamic, cantankerous swing era icon who abruptly quit the music business in 1954, disappointed by the industry’s demand for dance music over the jazz innovation he championed, ...

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 ...

Bandleader and clarinetist Artie Shaw died Dec. 29 at the age of 94, apparently of natural causes. In the 1930s and '40s, Shaw's band ranked with the Goodman, Dorsey and Miller bands in popularity.