His name was Artie Shaw, but he was born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky ... legs waiting in front of a justice of the peace while you were out playing the clarinet with some buddies?

Sunday marks the centennial of Artie Shaw's birth ... note-for-note renditions of his clarinet solos. But 80 years after the swinging Shaw perfected his art, no one has been able to play just ...

The great clarinetist Artie Shaw once told me — in characteristically ... And I thought to myself, ‘I’ve got to learn to play clarinet like this.'” This was a painstaking task, for no ...

In 1949 bandleader Artie ... Shaw's forays into classical music would have a profound effect upon his playing on the jazz records he made between 1949 and 1954. "My entire concept of what a ...

While still a teenager, Artie started playing jazz–first on the saxophone, then on alto sax and clarinet. Initially, Shaw’s interest was purely financial–he needed gigs to support himself ...

On the upcoming 100th anniversary of Artie ... bass and drums. Shaw disbanded the group after a year, began a 30-year retirement from music and permanently gave up playing clarinet.

A clarinet once owned by the jazz legend Artie Shaw is now proving an inspiration to a teenage musician from Nottingham. Jake Hinson's father bought the instrument for him, it is thought for ...

happens to be the 114th birthday anniversary of famous jazz clarinetist Artie Shaw. What better way to celebrate a larger-than-life American musician than to play his exhilarating Clarinet ...

Artie Shaw, a brilliant jazz clarinetist, was one of the most enigmatic, daring and adventurous bandleaders of the swing-era. An intellectual, he hated public life and the music industry. Over the ...