Just in time for the 100th anniversary of his birth, AirTalk remembers legendary jazz clarinetist and band leader Artie Shaw. Despite big hits including Begin the Beguine, Frenesi and Stardust, and ...
Shaw was the temperamental leader of some of the hottest swing bands of his era. Though he had huge hits with Begin the Beguine and Frenesi, Shaw... Artie Shaw: The Reluctant Jazz Star Artie Shaw was ...
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 ...
May 22, 2010 • Shaw displayed an impossibly round, mellow tone from the top to the bottom of the clarinet. He employed loop-de-loop breaks that were hard to finger, and equally hard to figure out.