Artie Shaw
One of the more complex characters in jazz, Artie Shaw was a consummate clarinetist and musical innovator who was among the first to combine jazz with modern classical music. And at the height of the swing era, he was a superstar who recorded a string of hit songs. However, he detested the rituals of celebrity, and he frequently dropped out of music. After putting together one of his finest groups in the mid 1950s, he retired from music altogether. Shaw then pursued a career as a writer, and his books received glowing praise, though never enough to overshadow the memory of his music. He passed away in 2004 at the ripe old age of 94.
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Albums
- (2005) Jazz Moods - Hot
- (2005) The Essential Artie Shaw
- (2004) The Centennial Collection
- (2002) Star Dust
- (2001) Self Portrait
- (2001) Very Best Of Artie Shaw
- (2001) Highlights from Self Portrait
- (2001) Highlights from Self Portrait
- (1996) Greatest Hits
- (1989) The Complete Grammercy Five Sessions
- (1987) Begin The Beguine
- (1987) Begin The Beguine
Top Tracks
- Love for Sale
- Begin the Beguine
- Moon Ray
- Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
- Deep In A Dream
Related Artists
- Glenn Miller
- Duke Ellington
- Jimmy Dorsey
- Artie Shaw And His Orchestra
- Benny Goodman
- Miles Davis
- Zoot Sims
- Stan Getz
- Charlie Parker
- Artie Shaw and His Gramercy Five
- John Coltrane
- Sidney Bechet
- Jimmie Lunceford
- Coleman Hawkins
- Lester Young
- Dexter Gordon
- Wynton Marsalis
- Charlie Barnet
- Art Pepper
- John Coltrane Quartet
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