Artie Shaw (Avraham Ben-Yitzhak Arshawsky) (1910-2004), a jazz and popular music legend, was a clarinet virtuoso and one of the leading bandleaders of the 20th century. He organized and led several of ...

The education Aesthetic Realism, founded by American poet and critic Eli Siegel (1902 -1978), describes what makes for beauty in music and shows how music comments centrally on what we're hoping for ...

On the upcoming 100th anniversary of Artie Shaw's birth, Fresh Air remembers one of jazz's greatest clarinetists and big-band leaders with excerpts from a 1985 interview. In the 1930s and '40s, the ...

Clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw, who sold 100 million records before quitting the music business half a century ago, died on December 30, 2004, at his home in Thousand Oaks, California. He was ...

Clarinetist, composer and bandleader Artie Shaw was a true American original. He was also a reluctant celebrity. Coming up, we'll hear Shaw's 1940 Concerto for Clarinet, in concert from the Hot ...

Oscar-nominated clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw, whose recording of “Begin the Beguine” epitomized the Big Band era, died Thursday at his home in Thousand Oaks. He was 94. Shaw had long had ...

Artie Shaw had eight wives in his lifetime, but one real love: jazz. He was an accomplished composer, arranger, bandleader and clarinetist. He also made one appearance on the Silver Screen in a movie ...