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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.
In 1952, she became bandleader Artie Shaw's seventh wife. They had a son, Jonathan, before divorcing in 1956. Later that year, on April 27, 1956, Dowling married film executive Robert F. Blumofe; [11] they divorced in 1959. [12] She married Leonard Kaufman on April 20, 1960, to whom she remained married until her death in 2004. [13]
Richard Brown Johnson (December 1, 1925 – January 10, 2010 [1]) was an American big band clarinetist, best known for his work with the Artie Shaw Band. [1] From 1983 until his death he was the leader of the Artie Shaw Orchestra. Born in Brockton, Massachusetts, he also played the alto saxophone and flute.
On October 7, 1940, during his brief stay with Artie Shaw's orchestra, Butterfield performed what has been described [by whom?] as a "legendary trumpet solo" on the hit song "Star Dust". He was also a featured soloist in the small group from Shaw's band, the Gramercy Five. Between 1943 and 1947, while serving in the U.S. armed forces ...
After that, he played with Smith Ballew (1934), Joe Venuti, Paul Fredricks, Vincent Lopez, and Artie Shaw's first (1936–37) and second (1937–39) orchestras. In November 1939, when Shaw walked off the bandstand in the Cafe Rouge located inside the Hotel Pennsylvania (essentially quitting his own band), Pastor was soon coaxed into leading his ...
Evelyn Keyes was born in Port Arthur, Texas, [3] to Omar Dow Keyes and Maude Ollive Keyes, the daughter of a Methodist minister. After Omar Keyes died when she was three years old, Keyes moved with her mother to Atlanta, Georgia, where they lived with her grandparents.
Helen Forrest (born Helen Fogel, April 12, 1917 – July 11, 1999) was an American singer of traditional pop and swing music.She served as the "girl singer" for three of the most popular big bands of the Swing Era (Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James), thereby earning a reputation as "the voice of the name bands."
In 1942, Artie Shaw broke up his band, and Dorsey hired the Shaw string section. As George T. Simon in Metronome magazine observed at the time: "They're used in the foreground and background (note some of the lovely obbligatos) for vocal effects and for Tommy's trombone." [48]