Artie Shaw was born 100 years ago Sunday. He was a Swing Era sensation, a bandleader who lit a fire under a generation of jitterbuggers. He was also an outspoken, self-taught clarinetist who became a ...

Artie Shaw (19102004) is the subject of Tom Nolan's biography, "Three Chords for Beauty's Sake," a compelling, day-to-day recap of a great musical talent. Shaw, a consummate artist, was bedeviled by ...

Artie Shaw, the swing era’s other great clarinetist, knew just about every romantic self-immolator in the history of jazz. He roomed with both Bix Beiderbecke and Bunny Berigan, he hired Billie ...

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 ...

Irv Kluger remembers Artie Shaw. Shaw (born Arthur Arshawsky in Brooklyn, N.Y.) was a legendary jazz clarinetist and big-band leader who made his indelible mark on the music world beginning in the ...

THREE CHORDS FOR BEAUTY'S SAKE: The Life of Artie Shaw, by Tom Nolan. Norton; 430 pages; $29.95 There are probably two ways to write a biography of Artie Shaw. One is to put yourself inside the swamp ...