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| | Artie Shaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A self-proclaimed "very difficult man", Shaw was married eight times; it became a national joke to have been "married as many times as Artie Shaw." Among his wives were Jane Cairns, Margaret Allen, Betty Kern (daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern), author Kathleen Winsor, and actresses Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Doris Dowling and Evelyn Keyes. | | | In 1994, Artie Shaw's band library and manuscript collection was donated to The University of Arizona. | | | Throughout his musical career, Shaw would take sabbaticals where he would quit the business. |
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| | Telegraph News Artie Shaw |
| | Shaw's fourth marriage was to Betty Kern, daughter of the composer Jerome Kern; she bore him a son. | | | Shaw's angry renunication of the music business in 1939 lasted less than three months, and he returned to fulfill a recording contract by making a swing version of Frenesi, a Latin tune he had heard in Mexico, which became his second most popular recording. | | | Shaw soon returned to fulfill a recording contract, and to pick up on his continuing popularity. |
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| | Artie Shaw |
| | In 1936, Shaw formed a band which included strings for a concert and, with the addition of regular dance band instruments, secured a recording contract. | | | During 1938 Shaw briefly had Holidayas the band's singer; but racial discrimination in New York hotels and on the band's radio shows led to a succession of disagreeable confrontations which eventually compelled the singer to quit. | | | Always uneasy with publicity and the demands of the public, Shaw abruptly folded the band late in 1939, but a featured role in the 1940 Fred Astaire-Paulette Goddard film, Second Chorus, brought another hit, Frenesi, and he quickly reformed a band. |
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| | ARTIE SHAW: 1910-2004 / Bandleader was last of the swing-era giants |
| | Shaw was one of the most lyrical and creative clarinetists in jazz. | | | Shaw saw himself as a musician trying to make interesting music for listening, not an entertainer supplying the beat for the Swing-crazed dancers called jitterbugs. | | | Shaw recorded a string of hits over the years, among them "Dancing in the Dark" and "Summit Ridge Drive" (the latter made in 1940 with his first Grammercy Five sextet, featuring a harpsichord instead of the usual piano). |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/12/31/MNGPTAJJJP1.DTL
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| | NPR : Artie Shaw, The Reluctant 'King of Swing' |
| | Shaw had persuaded Holiday to join his big band at a time when a black singer in a white band was shocking. | | | • See Artie Shaw album and track listings at his label, Bluebird Jazz. | | | Shaw, now 91, recently discussed his life and a newly issued CD box set called Self Portrait, consisting of songs he selected. |
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http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/mar/shaw
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| | Solid! -- Artie Shaw |
| | Shaw returned to the U.S. two months later and formed a 32-piece studio orchestra which recorded several songs, including his famous version of ''Frenesi.'' Later in the year, he formed a new band of his own that included the now famous Gramercy Five. | | | By 1947 he had quit that group and taken up the study of classical clarinet, for which he performed and recorded an album. | | | He was offered financial backing to form his own orchestra, and in 1936 he debut his first dance band, which featured a Dixieland approach and a string quartet. |
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| | Big Band Music Biography - Artie Shaw |
| | Another of Shaw's ventures during that period was his great 1949 band, which was virtually ignored by the general public until 1989, when an album of some of its work was released on compact discs by MusicMasters, and has since received remarkable worldwide reviews. | | | On first meeting Artie Shaw, young Wynton Marsalis remarked, "This man's got some history." Shaw was regarded by many as the finest and most innovative of all jazz clarinetists, a leader of several of the greatest musical aggregations ever assembled, and one of the most adventurous and accomplished figures in American music. | | | After that Shaw recorded the aforementioned Modern Music for Clarinet album, containing a collection of remarkably well crafted symphonic orchestrations of short works by Shostakovich, Debussy, Ravel, Milhaud, Poulenc, Kabalevsky, Granados, Gould, along with Cole Porter and George Gershwin. |
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| | Artie Shaw MP3 Downloads - Artie Shaw Music Downloads - Artie Shaw Music Videos |
| | But, with the end of the swing era, Shaw again broke up his band in early 1946 and was semi-retired for several years, playing classical music as much as jazz. | | | One of jazz's finest clarinetists, Artie Shaw never seemed fully satisfied with his musical life, constantly breaking up successful bands and running away from success. | | | After a few years of limited musical activity, Shaw returned one last time, recording extensively with a version of the Gramercy Five that featured Tal Farlow or Joe Puma on guitar along with Hank Jones. |
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http://www.mp3.com/artie-shaw/artists/6370/biography.html
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| | Bluebird Jazz |
| | Shaw’s restlessness led him to take a small group from his commercially successful orchestra and produce more adventurous music. | | | The song was such a hit that the band returned to the Bluebird studios four times that year—recording, at the next date, what became another signature Shaw performance, "Nightmare". | | | While Shaw hated the spotlight, which focused on his good looks and obvious intelligence, his band recorded throughout 1939. |
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http://www.bluebirdjazz.com/artists/artist.jsp?id=2020
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| | PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Artie Shaw |
| | One month later, Shaw formed a conventional swing band with a new library of music by Jerry Gray, trombonist Harry Rogers, and himself, and later adding pieces by the best popular song composers of the day. | | | In early 1940, Shaw worked in Hollywood on the film Second Chorus and recorded his next big hit, Frenesi, using a studio orchestra with a large string section. | | | The success of this recording forced him on tour again with a big band augmented by nine strings. |
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http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_shaw_artie.htm
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| | Summit Ridge Drive: The Genius of Artie Shaw |
| | To help us celebrate the music of Artie Shaw, Jim and the Band are joined by two outstanding clarinetists--both former members of the Jim Cullum Jazz Band: Bobby Gordon and Allan Vaché. | | | As part of the evening's entertainment, swing bands often featured a smaller ensemble, a "band within a band." These small groups had a hotter, more improvised sound, much less structured than the big band sound. | | | Bobby has a warm tone and lyrical style that Shaw favored. |
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| | Jazz Giant Artie Shaw Dies at Age 94 (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Shaw hired Holiday and she recorded one of his enduring songs, "Any Old Times." But she left the next year, angered by Southern crowds hostile to her appearance with a white band. | | | Artie Shaw, 94, the dynamic, cantankerous swing era icon who abruptly quit the music business in 1954, disappointed by the industry's demand for dance music over the jazz innovation he championed, died Dec. 30 at his home in Thousand Oaks, Calif. | | | Shaw led a few Navy bands, sometimes playing up to four concerts a day in battle zones and demanding top-level musicianship at each performance. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36925-2004Dec30.html
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| | JR.com: Artie Shaw - The Centennial Collection [CD & DVD] in Music: Big Band: |
| | One of the more complex characters in jazz, Artie Shaw was a consummate clarinetist and musical innovator who was among the first to combine jazz with modern classical music. | | | After Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw was the premiere swing clarinetist, and his fine compositions, sweet tone, and mastery of the instrument's high register hold him in good stead against "the King of Swing." THE CENTENNIAL COLLECTION brings together 20 Shaw selections, eight of which are taken from late-1930s and early-'40s radio broadcasts. | | | And at the height of the swing era, he was a superstar who recorded a string of hit songs. |
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| | Catholic New Times: The tortured life of Artie Shaw |
| | Undoubtedly, Shaw was a perfectionist, a perennial seeker of knowledge and self-knowledge. | | | In 1938, Shaw released an obscure song from Cole Porter's 1935 musical; Jubilee. | | | In 1983, Franklin Cohen principal clarinetist of the Cleveland Symphony, expressed disbelief when he listened to Shaw's Concerto for Clarinet which he was about to tackle. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MKY/is_3_29/ai_n13452687
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| | Amazon.com: Artie Shaw: Books: Vladimir Simosko |
| | As Shaw wrote the introduction, the book becomes "authorized" and must be regarded as the ultimate record of one of the most complex jazz musicians in the jazz world, and at the age of 90 one of the last living members of the Big Band Era. | | | This period of activity is the focus of this musical biography and discography, a detailed account of Shaw's musical career and recorded output. | | | Of most interest will be the years before Shaw recorded Begin the Beguine when he was a sideman with many large radio orchestras. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0810833972?v=glance
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| | Welcome to the Official Artie Shaw Website! |
| | A retrospective of Artie's career using recordings (from various record labels) he has chosen to represent what he was aiming for musically with his various bands, it is not an attempt to include every tune ever recorded by Shaw. | | | RCA has issued a 5-CD set of Artie's recordings titled Artie Shaw: Self Portrait. | | | HEPRecords, in Scotland, has recently issued a 3 CD set titled Artie Shaw and His Orchestra 1944-45. |
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| | Artie Shaw -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | 17, 2002, Pittsburgh), was a teenaged musician in top swing bands (Gene Krupa, Charlie Barnet, and Artie Shaw) before he became one of the first pianists to master the complexities of bebop; he played modern harmonies and fluent melodies in classic recordings by Lester Young and Charlie Parker, and he also... | | | American jazz singer who performed with a number of prominent big bands during the late 1930s and early '40s, including those led by Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James; she embarked on a long and successful solo career in 1944 and recorded her last album, Now and Forever, in 1983 (b. | | | American jazz musician who began playing guitar in 1943, inspired by jazz great Charlie Christian, and later performed during the early-mid-1950s as a professional with the innovative Red Norvo Trio and with Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five, establishing a national reputation as a fluent improviser of melodic bop lines. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9067179
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| | In Remembrance- Artie Shaw |
| | Shaw was also the first orchestra leader to have both white and black musicians together in his orchestras, starting with the hiring of singer Billie Holiday in 1938. | | | The group released “Begin The Beguine” in 1938 and the song quickly rocketed up the charts, staying a number 1 hit for six weeks. | | | The third, Artie Shaw’s Class In Swing, featured Shaw giving a tutorial on what constitutes swing-style music. |
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| | Blogcritics.org: SWING IS A VERB, ARTIE SHAW, JAZZ MOODS--HOT |
| | But for folks who need an introduction to Artie Shaw, and want to listen to his Big Band inventions in their unadulterated purity, this collection is great. | | | All of the arrangements on these 14 tracks are tight, but for those who want to hear Shaw in all his perfect-pitch glory keep your ear's tuned for the many solos. | | | His love of music and of Jazz, which he saw as the only truly American music, was only exceeded by his rancor toward the business. |
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/19/082831.php
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| | CBC Arts: Jazz legend Artie Shaw dies at 94 |
| | In the early 1980s, Shaw returned to the music business, conducting a revival band playing arrangements his bands had used in the past. | | | After recording Cole Porter's Begin the Beguine in 1938, the 28-year-old Shaw was one of the brightest — and highest-paid — stars in American music at the time. | | | The song topped the charts for six weeks. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2004/12/31/Arts/shaw-obit-041231.html
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| | Jazz Great Artie Shaw Dies - Dec 31, 2004 - E! Online News |
| | A self-confessed perfectionist, both professionally and personally, Shaw's band's recording of Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine" topped the charts for six weeks in 1938. | | | His liquid sound made him a rival to the day's other clarinet virtuoso, Benny Goodman, for the title "King of Swing," and his group one of the most popular of the Big Band era. | | | They were married from 1957 to 1985, but separated for much of that time. |
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| | Power Line: The trouble with Cinderella |
| | Shaw's music should have little doubt he added to the sum of the world's goodness. | | | As deservedly high as was his own opinion of what he'd achieved musically, Mr. | | | Today's New York Times provides a glimpse of the archival record that survives as well as the unhappy family life that must have turned the marriages into brief episodes in a long life: "Artie Shaw, without music." |
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| | The Bebop Shop Artie Shaw |
| | Artie Shaw & His Orchestra: Hollywood Palladium 1941 (CD: Hep) | | | Artie Shaw & His Orchestra: The Artistry Of, 1949 (CD: Fresh Sound) | | | Artie Shaw: Self Portrait (CD: RCA Bluebird- US Import, 5 CDs) |
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| | American BigBands - Page 2 "S" Bands |
| | There were plans, in the early 1990s, for Shaw to appear in London, Eng., fronting a band this time formed by Bob Wilber to re-create Artie's music. | | | The date was so successful, that he was able to obtain financial backing to form a larger group, with regular dance band instrumentation, for a recording contract and a Boston debut. | | | In the 1980's, Shaw again reformed a band, this time under the direction of Dick Johnson, which performed at special concerts. |
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| | Artie Shaw - Links Page |
| | Shaw gave up all of that time to bring us such wonderful music, I could at least make him a website." (and it's a great web site too!) | | | "In terms of musicality, Shaw's bands were a reflection of himself. | | | It blurs the boundaries between composition and improvisation, and yet it has also been enormously popular. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Very Best of Artie Shaw: Music |
| | It's a cliché, but if you're only ever going to buy one Artie Shaw CD (and that'd be a pity), this should be it. | | | Customers who bought music by Artie Shaw also bought music by these artists: | | | The Artistry of Artie Shaw; Audio CD ~ Artie Shaw |
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| | Artie Shaw lyrics |
| | tabs and lyrics » lyrics » Artie Shaw » | | | Artie Shaw lyrics - Page 1 of 1 | | | Welcome to Tabs and Lyrics, your FREE one stop music resource! |
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Music Obituary: Artie Shaw |
| | Within a year, after the release of Begin the Beguine, the Artie Shaw Orchestra was earning the then equivalent of $600,000 a week. | | | The record has become one of the best-selling in history. | | | Artie Shaw was one of the world's great clarinettists and bandleaders, at his peak in the 1930s and 1940s. |
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| | ARTIE SHAW |
| | However this did not stop him from having one of 1938's biggest hits with his version of Cole Porter's title track. | | | One of the leading Swing bandleaders and clarinettists, Shaw was noted for his criticisms of the commercialisation of jazz. |
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| | Artie Shaw Windows Media Player Jukebox Page |
| | to learn more about Artie Shaw's latest CD set, the finest Shaw anthology available. | | | You may get one for free by clicking on this image: |
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| | Free For All, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic |
| | Before career milestones like his big 1938 hit "Begin the Beguine" and later Gramercy Five combo recordings, though, Shaw cut these 1937-1938 sides with his first big band. | | | Idiosyncratic bandleader, would-be novelist, husband to the stars, and, oh yes, one of the finest clarinet players in jazz history, Artie Shaw fits the description on all counts, while also being responsible for one of the best catalogs of big-band and small group material from the years 1936-1955. | | | Newcomers looking for a starting point into Shaw's work should check out his more famous RCA/Bluebird sides first, but they certainly won't be disappointed when they get around to this collection of slightly earlier material. |
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| | RadioLovers.com - Artie Shaw |
| | Click on the Links below to listen for free online: | | | For more information about copyrights for Old Time Radio shows, | | | Free Old time Radio Shows - Artie Shaw |
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| | NPR : Bandleader Artie Shaw Dies at 94 |
| | Shaw was an innovator as well as a hit maker. | | | He was one of the first white bandleaders to hire black musicians, and his orchestral compositions won him respect in the classical music world. | | | But Shaw quit performing in the mid-1950s to compose and arrange music, write books, produce film -- and perfect fly-fishing techniques. |
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| | Artie Shaw |
| | Apart from a short, one page letter from Shaw granting Berman the right to use his recordings (provided that she paid the appropriate licensing fees to his music publishers), the only agreement between them was this one sentence letter: | | | Brigitte Berman is a Toronto film maker and a "Producer-Director" at the CBC. | | | Loans made by Shaw to Berman were repaid. |
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| | New York Daily News - Entertainment - Bandleader Artie Shaw, 94, dies |
| | Shaw's reputation as a bandleader and musician was rivaled by his reputation as a serial husband and cranky perfectionist who eventually became exasperated with almost everything, including himself. | | | He joined his first band a year later, and he played with Red Nichols, Vincent Lopez and Roger Wolfe Kahn before he formed his own ensemble in 1936. | | | He was married eight times to some of the most beautiful women in the world, including Ava Gardner and Lana Turner, yet he would later describe himself as a reluctant player in the world of stardom where he met them. |
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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/267032p-228618c.html
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| | Artie Shaw News |
| | Tribune arts critic Granted, no two clarinetists--or 5 or 10--could re-articulate the musical genius of Artie Shaw. | | | Artie Shaw, an icon of the big- band swing era known for his impeccable command of the clarinet, sharp intellect, exacting manner and many wives, was honored Sunday at a memorial service at Pierce Brothers... | | | As far as I'm concerned, there'll never be another Artie Shaw. |
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| | Artie Shaw |
| | Artie Shaw was the rival of Benny Goodman in the Swing era. | | | Find where Artie Shaw is credited alongside another name | | | Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985) |
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| | seattletimes.com |
| | The story you have requested, "Artie Shaw, star bandleader, dies at 94" has been moved to the seattletimes.com archive. | | | The story will appear automatically in ten seconds, or click here. |
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| | JAZZ RHYTHM / Dave Radlauer - ARTIE SHAW |
| | ONE OF SHAW’s FIRST HIGH-PROFILE PUBLIC APPEARANCES WAS IN THE MID-1930s LEADING A BAND AT A “SWING CONCERT” ON BROADWAY IN NEW YORK CITY WHERE HE PUT TOGETHER A RATHER STRIKING ENSEMBLE THAT INCLUDED A STRING QUARTET. | | | ARTIE SHAW’S HAS BEEN A TRULY AMERICAN LIFE IN MUSIC AND A JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY. | | | BECAUSE I WAS TALKING ABOUT MUSIC, NOT ABOUT NOTES -- NOT ABOUT HOW YOU PLAY THEM -- BUT WHERE THEY FIT IN WITH THE REST OF THE BAND. |
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