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Arthur Arshawsky 23 May 1910 – 30 December 2004 Better Known As Artie Shaw Was An Accomplished Jazz Alto Saxophonist Clarinetist Composer Arranger Bandleader And Author.
He Was Born In New York City But Grew Up In New Haven Connecticut And Began Learning The Saxophone When He Was 15 And By Age 16 Had Begun To Tour With A Band. He Reached Hollywood The First Time As A Sideman With Irving Aaronson's Band In 1931 Performing At The Famous Orange Blossom Room Site Of The First Academy Awards Ceremony In 1929 . Returning To New York City In1932 He Became A Highly In-Demand Session Musician Working For Example As One Of Just A Handful Of Accompanists To Bing Crosby's First Signature Radio Show For William S. Paley's Already Powerful And Influential CBS Radio Network. Ultimately Artie Who Was Known Strictly As "Art" Shaw Until His Fortuitous Summer 1938 Contract With RCA Victor Records' Bluebird Label Commenced Organized And Led Five Full-Time Touring Orchestras That Were All Extremely Popular -Save The Last From 1949 With Its Be-Bop Oriented Book. Ironically That Final Shaw-Led Big Band Populated With Players Like Al Cohn Is Considered By Most Jazz Critics To Have Been Artie's Best. With Time Out To Lead A Navy Service Band In The Pacific Combat Theater During WWII Shaw's Actual Big Band- Leading Career Lasted Less Than A Decade Overall -Yet It Was A Remarkably Productive One Populated With Some Fourteen "Gold" Records. These Included Such Mega-Hits As "Begin The Beguine" "Stardust" "Frenesi" "Moonglow" "Temptation" "Dancing In The Dark" And "Summit Ridge Drive" -The Latter By His Famous Quintet Billed As The Gramercy 5. Shaw Was Known For Being An Innovator In The Big Band Idiom Pioneering Strings With Jazz And Using Unusual Instrumentations. His Summer 1935 Piece "Interlude In B-Flat" Was One Of The Earliest Examples Of What Would Be Later Dubbed "third Stream". In 1938 He Convinced Billie Holiday To Be His Band's Vocalist Becoming The First White Bandleader To Hire A Full-Time Black Female Singer. This 1938-1939 Orchestra Became Phenomenonally Successful And Appeared In The Movie "Dancing Co-Ed" Which Also Featured One Of His Future Wives Lana Turner In The Cast. Artie's Clarinet Playing Had By Now Reached A Level That Was Arguably The Greatest In Jazz Easily Rivaling That Of Benny Goodman. Longtime Duke Ellington Clarinetist Barney Bigard Himself A Highly Talented Musician -Cited Shaw In 1940 As His "favorite" Clarinet Player. Literally Abandoning His Famous 1938-1939 Band At The Absolute Peak Of Its' Fame And Earning Power Artie Just Himself Alone Pulling Down More Than $10K Per Week In Late November 1939 Shaw "abdicated" To Acapulco Mexico. Returning To The U.S. He Organized An Entirely New Orchestra With Full String Section In The Summer Of 1940. A Truly Stellar Aggregation It Lasted Until Mid-1941 Featuring Stars Billy Butterfield Johnny Guarneiri Nick Fatool And Ray Conniff As Principal Arranger. This Outfit Can Be Prominently Seen In The RKO Film "Second Chorus" Starring Fred Astaire And Paulette Goddard. The Final Pre-War Shaw Band Started In Late 1941 Had Davey Tough And Hot Lips Page And Big Hits On St. James Infirmary Blues And Blues In The NIght. Artie Broke This Outstanding Unit Up Shortly After Pearl Harbor So He Could "enlist" In The Navy -Refusing An Offered Commission. Back From The Navy Shaw Put Together A New Band That Featured Roy Eldridge And An Ambitious Library Stocked With Arrangements By Eddie Sauter Buster Harding Ray Conniff And Others. Hit Records For This Band Included "Little Jazz" And "S'Wonderful" And By Now Artie Was Married To Ava Gardner. His Final Public Performances As A Clarinetist Took Place In 1954 Including With A Sublime Quartet In An Extended Las Vegas Booking. Apparently He Last Picked Up And Played His Fabled Clarinet In About 1960 At His Beach House In Spain As Recounted In Final Wife Actress Evelyn Keyes' Autobiography And Resisted All Lucrative Offers To Return To The Stage Until Finally Fielding A "ghost" Band Under The Highly Capable Aegis Of Outstanding Clarinetist Dick Johnson In 1985. For About The First Year Artie Often Appeared On Stage With This Very Fine Orchestra At Certain Prestigious Bookings But Soon Tired Of The "grind" -And Not To Dick Johnson's Dismay. This Now True "ghost" Band Is Still Appearing During Summer Seasons With Much Of The Original Shaw "books" Principally In The New England Area Johnson Lives In Boston And Is Well Worth Seeing. Although He Had More Wives 8 Than Bands Artie Fell One Wife Short Of Charlie Barnet's Record For A Famous Bandleadrer Of Nine.
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Arthur Arshawsky 23 May 1910 – 30 December 2004 Better Known As Artie Shaw Was An Accomplished Jazz Alto Saxophonist Clarinetist Composer Arranger Bandleader And Author.
He Was Born In New York City But Grew Up In New Haven Connecticut And Began Learning The Saxophone When He Was 15 And By Age 16 Had Begun To Tour With A Band. He Reached Hollywood The First Time As A Sideman With Irving Aaronson's Band In 1931 Performing At The Famous Orange Blossom Room Site Of The First Academy Awards Ceremony In 1929 . Returning To New York City In1932 He Became A Highly In-Demand Session Musician Working For Example As One Of Just A Handful Of Accompanists To Bing Crosby's First Signature Radio Show For William S. Paley's Already Powerful And Influential CBS Radio Network. Ultimately Artie Who Was Known Strictly As "Art" Shaw Until His Fortuitous Summer 1938 Contract With RCA Victor Records' Bluebird Label Commenced Organized And Led Five Full-Time Touring Orchestras That Were All Extremely Popular -Save The Last From 1949 With Its Be-Bop Oriented Book. Ironically That Final Shaw-Led Big Band Populated With Players Like Al Cohn Is Considered By Most Jazz Critics To Have Been Artie's Best. With Time Out To Lead A Navy Service Band In The Pacific Combat Theater During WWII Shaw's Actual Big Band- Leading Career Lasted Less Than A Decade Overall -Yet It Was A Remarkably Productive One Populated With Some Fourteen "Gold" Records. These Included Such Mega-Hits As "Begin The Beguine" "Stardust" "Frenesi" "Moonglow" "Temptation" "Dancing In The Dark" And "Summit Ridge Drive" -The Latter By His Famous Quintet Billed As The Gramercy 5. Shaw Was Known For Being An Innovator In The Big Band Idiom Pioneering Strings With Jazz And Using Unusual Instrumentations. His Summer 1935 Piece "Interlude In B-Flat" Was One Of The Earliest Examples Of What Would Be Later Dubbed "third Stream". In 1938 He Convinced Billie Holiday To Be His Band's Vocalist Becoming The First White Bandleader To Hire A Full-Time Black Female Singer. This 1938-1939 Orchestra Became Phenomenonally Successful And Appeared In The Movie "Dancing Co-Ed" Which Also Featured One Of His Future Wives Lana Turner In The Cast. Artie's Clarinet Playing Had By Now Reached A Level That Was Arguably The Greatest In Jazz Easily Rivaling That Of Benny Goodman. Longtime Duke Ellington Clarinetist Barney Bigard Himself A Highly Talented Musician -Cited Shaw In 1940 As His "favorite" Clarinet Player. Literally Abandoning His Famous 1938-1939 Band At The Absolute Peak Of Its' Fame And Earning Power Artie Just Himself Alone Pulling Down More Than $10K Per Week In Late November 1939 Shaw "abdicated" To Acapulco Mexico. Returning To The U.S. He Organized An Entirely New Orchestra With Full String Section In The Summer Of 1940. A Truly Stellar Aggregation It Lasted Until Mid-1941 Featuring Stars Billy Butterfield Johnny Guarneiri Nick Fatool And Ray Conniff As Principal Arranger. This Outfit Can Be Prominently Seen In The RKO Film "Second Chorus" Starring Fred Astaire And Paulette Goddard. The Final Pre-War Shaw Band Started In Late 1941 Had Davey Tough And Hot Lips Page And Big Hits On St. James Infirmary Blues And Blues In The NIght. Artie Broke This Outstanding Unit Up Shortly After Pearl Harbor So He Could "enlist" In The Navy -Refusing An Offered Commission. Back From The Navy Shaw Put Together A New Band That Featured Roy Eldridge And An Ambitious Library Stocked With Arrangements By Eddie Sauter Buster Harding Ray Conniff And Others. Hit Records For This Band Included "Little Jazz" And "S'Wonderful" And By Now Artie Was Married To Ava Gardner. His Final Public Performances As A Clarinetist Took Place In 1954 Including With A Sublime Quartet In An Extended Las Vegas Booking. Apparently He Last Picked Up And Played His Fabled Clarinet In About 1960 At His Beach House In Spain As Recounted In Final Wife Actress Evelyn Keyes' Autobiography And Resisted All Lucrative Offers To Return To The Stage Until Finally Fielding A "ghost" Band Under The Highly Capable Aegis Of Outstanding Clarinetist Dick Johnson In 1985. For About The First Year Artie Often Appeared On Stage With This Very Fine Orchestra At Certain Prestigious Bookings But Soon Tired Of The "grind" -And Not To Dick Johnson's Dismay. This Now True "ghost" Band Is Still Appearing During Summer Seasons With Much Of The Original Shaw "books" Principally In The New England Area Johnson Lives In Boston And Is Well Worth Seeing. Although He Had More Wives 8 Than Bands Artie Fell One Wife Short Of Charlie Barnet's Record For A Famous Bandleadrer Of Nine. read less
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He Was Born In New York City But Grew Up In New Haven Connecticut And Began Learning The Saxophone When He Was 15 And By Age 16 Had Begun To Tour With A Band. He Reached Hollywood The First Time As A Sideman With Irving Aaronson's Band In 1931 Performing At The Famous Orange Blossom Room Site Of The First Academy Awards Ceremony In 1929 . Returning To New York City In1932 He Became A Highly In-Demand Session Musician Working For Example As One Of Just A Handful Of Accompanists To Bing Crosby's First Signature Radio Show For William S. Paley's Already Powerful And Influential CBS Radio Network. Ultimately Artie Who Was Known Strictly As "Art" Shaw Until His Fortuitous Summer 1938 Contract With RCA Victor Records' Bluebird Label Commenced Organized And Led Five Full-Time Touring Orchestras That Were All Extremely Popular -Save The Last From 1949 With Its Be-Bop Oriented Book. Ironically That Final Shaw-Led Big Band Populated With Players Like Al Cohn Is Considered By Most Jazz Critics To Have Been Artie's Best. With Time Out To Lead A Navy Service Band In The Pacific Combat Theater During WWII Shaw's Actual Big Band- Leading Career Lasted Less Than A Decade Overall -Yet It Was A Remarkably Productive One Populated With Some Fourteen "Gold" Records. These Included Such Mega-Hits As "Begin The Beguine" "Stardust" "Frenesi" "Moonglow" "Temptation" "Dancing In The Dark" And "Summit Ridge Drive" -The Latter By His Famous Quintet Billed As The Gramercy 5. Shaw Was Known For Being An Innovator In The Big Band Idiom Pioneering Strings With Jazz And Using Unusual Instrumentations. His Summer 1935 Piece "Interlude In B-Flat" Was One Of The Earliest Examples Of What Would Be Later Dubbed "third Stream". In 1938 He Convinced Billie Holiday To Be His Band's Vocalist Becoming The First White Bandleader To Hire A Full-Time Black Female Singer. This 1938-1939 Orchestra Became Phenomenonally Successful And Appeared In The Movie "Dancing Co-Ed" Which Also Featured One Of His Future Wives Lana Turner In The Cast. Artie's Clarinet Playing Had By Now Reached A Level That Was Arguably The Greatest In Jazz Easily Rivaling That Of Benny Goodman. Longtime Duke Ellington Clarinetist Barney Bigard Himself A Highly Talented Musician -Cited Shaw In 1940 As His "favorite" Clarinet Player. Literally Abandoning His Famous 1938-1939 Band At The Absolute Peak Of Its' Fame And Earning Power Artie Just Himself Alone Pulling Down More Than $10K Per Week In Late November 1939 Shaw "abdicated" To Acapulco Mexico. Returning To The U.S. He Organized An Entirely New Orchestra With Full String Section In The Summer Of 1940. A Truly Stellar Aggregation It Lasted Until Mid-1941 Featuring Stars Billy Butterfield Johnny Guarneiri Nick Fatool And Ray Conniff As Principal Arranger. This Outfit Can Be Prominently Seen In The RKO Film "Second Chorus" Starring Fred Astaire And Paulette Goddard. The Final Pre-War Shaw Band Started In Late 1941 Had Davey Tough And Hot Lips Page And Big Hits On St. James Infirmary Blues And Blues In The NIght. Artie Broke This Outstanding Unit Up Shortly After Pearl Harbor So He Could "enlist" In The Navy -Refusing An Offered Commission. Back From The Navy Shaw Put Together A New Band That Featured Roy Eldridge And An Ambitious Library Stocked With Arrangements By Eddie Sauter Buster Harding Ray Conniff And Others. Hit Records For This Band Included "Little Jazz" And "S'Wonderful" And By Now Artie Was Married To Ava Gardner. His Final Public Performances As A Clarinetist Took Place In 1954 Including With A Sublime Quartet In An Extended Las Vegas Booking. Apparently He Last Picked Up And Played His Fabled Clarinet In About 1960 At His Beach House In Spain As Recounted In Final Wife Actress Evelyn Keyes' Autobiography And Resisted All Lucrative Offers To Return To The Stage Until Finally Fielding A "ghost" Band Under The Highly Capable Aegis Of Outstanding Clarinetist Dick Johnson In 1985. For About The First Year Artie Often Appeared On Stage With This Very Fine Orchestra At Certain Prestigious Bookings But Soon Tired Of The "grind" -And Not To Dick Johnson's Dismay. This Now True "ghost" Band Is Still Appearing During Summer Seasons With Much Of The Original Shaw "books" Principally In The New England Area Johnson Lives In Boston And Is Well Worth Seeing. Although He Had More Wives 8 Than Bands Artie Fell One Wife Short Of Charlie Barnet's Record For A Famous Bandleadrer Of Nine. read less
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Benny Goodman Tommy Dorsey Glenn Miller Artie Shaw And His Orchestra Charlie Barnet Fletcher Henderson Bix Beiderbecke Jimmy Dorsey Jimmie Lunceford Woody Herman & His Orchestra Harry James Woody Herman Benny Goodman And His Orchestra Helen Forrest Benny Goodman Trio Sidney Bechet.