Books
Writer Aram Saroyan converses with The Legendary Clarinetist and Big-Band Leader about Living High and Playing High--and His Despicable Uncle Moishe
Aug. 6, 2000
Entertainment & Arts
Artie Shaw, 93, gives two of his clarinets to the Smithsonian and is awarded a medal for his contributions to music.
Aug. 29, 2003
Artie Shaw--who earned celebrity status in the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s as much for his notorious marriages to the likes of Ava Gardner and Lana Turner as he did for his clarinet artistry--has never minced words about his disdain for fans of American popular music, particularly his.
Dec. 4, 1992
Movies
Artie Shaw was the Hamlet of Swing: brooding, troubled, intense, darkly handsome--the man who could not make up his mind.
March 12, 1987
A 1,900-page fictional memoir took up the jazz legend’s last years. But will it ever see print?
Jan. 21, 2005
Music
Pianist-bandleader Bill Elliott, whose Swing Orchestra headlines “A Salute to Artie Shaw” at the Irvine Marriott on Sunday, has never met the dapper giant of swing, who will celebrate his 85th birthday next month.
April 7, 1995
Wednesday night the Hollywood Bowl’s summer calendar included an appearance by the legendary Artie Shaw with the reconstituted Artie Shaw Orchestra, put together in Boston a couple of years ago by clarinetist Dick Johnson.
July 25, 1985
California
A jury in Ventura has awarded the ex-wife of the late jazz clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw $1.42 million, which accounts for about half of his estate.
July 26, 2006
Back in 1982, a young Canadian television producer named Brigitte Berman came to Filmex with a documentary she’d made about the great cornet player Bix Beiderbecke.
April 4, 1985
The muse has you in thrall. You want to make music or write stories.
Aug. 13, 1992