Sunday marks the centennial of Artie Shaw's birth. The late clarinetist ... of the swinger "Back Bay Shuffle" comes from a live 1939 broadcast of the Old Gold "Melody and Madness" radio program.

Artie Shaw died in 2004 at 94 and this month marks the centennial ... on The Complete Spotlight Band 1945 Broadcasts and The Complete Thesaurus Transcriptions 1949. After he broke up that 1949 big ...

Artie Shaw (Avraham Ben-Yitzhak Arshawsky ... the USA in a meteoric rise to national prominence with his 1938-1939 band, on records, network radio broadcasts and in motion pictures. The 1938-1939 band ...

In 2002, Sudhalter sat down with McPartland to talk about clarinetist Artie Shaw (1910 – 2004). Shaw was known for his unparalleled virtuosity and as a successful bandleader with a limitless ...

Bandleader, clarinetist and arranger Artie Shaw has died at home in Los Angeles. His health had declined since Thanksgiving. He was 94 years old. Shaw's recording of "Begin the Beguine" became so ...

Artie Shaw was a virtuoso clarinetist whose good looks and eight wives (including Lana Turner and Eva Gardner) made him a darling of the gossip page. He was also a bandleader extraordinaire and a ...

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 ...

In 1949 bandleader Artie Shaw, the so-called "King of the Clarinet" who had rocketed to fame at the end of the 1930s on the strength of hits like "Begin the Beguine," had been off the jazz scene ...

It screened in a restoration at Film Forum a couple of years back. Now, her follow-up to that movie, “Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got” (1985), is similarly restored and booked at Film Forum.