Artie Shaw
Bandleader, Musical Artist
1910 – 2004
Who was Artie Shaw?
Artie Shaw was an American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. Also an author, Shaw wrote both fiction and non-fiction.
Widely regarded as "one of jazz's finest clarinetists," Shaw led one of the United States' most popular big bands in the late 1930s through the early 1940s. Their signature song, a 1938 version of Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine", was a wildly successful single and one of the era's defining recordings. Musically restless, Shaw was also an early proponent of Third Stream, which blended classical and jazz, and recorded some small-group sessions that flirted with be-bop before retiring from music in 1954.
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- Born
- May 23, 1910
New York City - Also known as
- Arthur Jacob Arshawsky
- Arthur Arshawsky
- King of the Clarinet
- Parents
- Spouses
- Jane Cairns
(1932 - 1933) - Margaret Allen
(1934 - 1937) - Lana Turner
(1940/02/13 - 1940/09/12) - Elizabeth Kern
(1942/03/03 - 1943) - Ava Gardner
(1945/10/17 - 1946/10/25) - Kathleen Winsor
(1946/10/28 - 1948) - Doris Dowling
(1952/06/19 - 1956/04/16) - Evelyn Keyes
(1957 - 1985)
- Jane Cairns
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Norwalk
- New York City
- Died
- Dec 30, 2004
Thousand Oaks
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on July 23, 2013
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