A new collection of songs from Artie Shaw; the Hasidic New Wave's Afro-Semitic Diaspora; Buena Vista Social Club's bassist, Orlando Cachaito López; Mexico's answer to the Beatles — Café Tacuba; and ...

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 ...

Finally tonight, remembering clarinetist and big band leader Artie Shaw, who died yesterday. The swing-era virtuoso sold more than 100 million records, including such hits as "Begin the Beguine," ...

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 ...

Artie Shaw's first feature-length film was Second Chorus, in 1940. By then, the 30-year-old clarinetist was earning up to $60,000 a week ($1.1 million in today's dollars), becoming the best-paid and ...

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 ...

Speaking of Alec Wilder (yesterday's post), the composer may have had an inadvertent influence on Artie Shaw's decision to start his Gramercy Five combo in 1940. Forming small jazz groups within big ...

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, ...

Big Band leader and “Begin the Beguine” clarinetist Artie Shaw was eulogized by friends with tributes of admiration as well as moments of humor. Shaw’s music filled Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks ...

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 ...