In Eastern cities and towns last week, jitterbugs by the thousand laid their dollars on the line to hear a new dance band. The band belonged to dark, dapper, moody Clarinetist Artie Shaw, who two ...

On a Sunday afternoon in July 1946, CBS's Columbia Workshop broadcast The Pied Piper of Hamelin, featuring a story adaptation and music by Artie Shaw. The national radio show broadcast from Columbia ...

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 ...

Imagine this: in that brief period of 20th-century American history when jazz was mainstream pop music, several of the most prominent men in show business anywhere were white clarinet players who led ...

Artie Shaw will always be a bit of a puzzle to his fans--"morons, “ as he once characterized some of us. The best band he ever fronted, and said so more than once, was his 1949-50 “bop" band. Benny ...

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, ...

The Swing King was still a young man when he retired in 1954. On Thursday, legendary band leader Artie Shaw, now 93, retired two of his beloved clarinets, giving them to the Smithsonian’s National ...

The most familiar kind of tragedy in American music is that of the great artist who dies young, like Bix Beiderbecke or Charlie Parker. Then there’s the artist who does all of his major work only in ...

At his peak in the 1930s and ’40s, Artie Shaw, the brilliant clarinetist and bandleader, ranked with Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller as musicians whose swinging tunes kept a generation ...

Bandleader and clarinetist Artie Shaw died Dec. 29 at the age of 94, apparently of natural causes. In the 1930s and '40s, Shaw's band ranked with the Goodman, Dorsey and Miller bands in popularity.

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) -- Artie Shaw, a clarinetist and bandleader whose recording of "Begin the Beguine" epitomized the Big Band era, died Thursday at age 94, the manager of his orchestra said.