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Artie Shaw (born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky; May 23, 1910 [1] – December 30, 2004) [2] was an American clarinetist, composer, bandleader, actor and author of both fiction and non-fiction. Widely regarded as "one of jazz's finest clarinetists", [ 3 ] Shaw led one of the United States' most popular big bands in the late 1930s through the early 1940s.
Meanwhile, tired of losing several gigs to the Perennials, Artie Shaw persuades Ellen to be his booking manager. Ellen tries to get Danny and Hank an audition for Shaw's band, but their jealous hijinks get them the boot. Ellen talks Shaw into letting rich "wannabe" mandolin player, J. Lester Chisholm, back a concert.
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got is a 1985 Canadian documentary film about clarinetist Artie Shaw. [2] It was written, directed and narrated by Brigitte Berman (who first interviewed Shaw in her 1981 documentary about Bix Beiderbecke titled Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet).
Two years later, however, bandleader Artie Shaw recorded an arrangement of the song, an extended swing orchestra version, in collaboration with his arranger and orchestrator, Jerry Gray. After signing a new recording contract with RCA Victor , Shaw chose "Begin the Beguine" to be the first of six tunes he would record with his new 14-piece band ...
Acknowledged as the most cerebral of the dance bandleaders, [3] throughout his career, Artie Shaw had an uneasy relationship with popularity. [1] Preferring to record songs for perceived artistic value rather than cater to popular demand, in 1938, his second band (after "Art Shaw and His New Music" in the middle 30s) struck massive success with "Begin the Beguine", a number-one hit for six ...
ARTIE. 52A: Jazz great Shaw (Thursday, Feb. 8) One of Artie Shaw’s eight (!!!) wives was film darling Ava Gardner, who was from Johnston County and attended Atlantic Christian College.
Concerto for Clarinet is a composition for clarinet and jazz orchestra by Artie Shaw.The piece ends with a "legendary" altissimo C. [1] The piece is a "pastiche thrown together out of some boogie-woogie blues, clarinet-over-tomtom interludes, a commonplace riff build-up towards the end, all encased in opening and closing virtuoso cadenzas for the leader's clarinet".
Artie Shaw recorded the first version on September 2, 1941, for RCA Victor Records, which was released as Victor 27609 on October 3. [14] It debuted at #10 on Billboard magazine's "Best Selling Retail Records chart" (BS chart) on November 21, 1941, but dropped to #21 the next week, then off.