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  1. Overview. Born. May 23, 1910 · New York City, New York, USA. Died. December 30, 2004 · Thousand Oaks, California, USA (diabetes) Birth name. Arthur Jacob Arshawsky. Nickname. King of the Clarinet. Mini Bio. Artie Shaw played ukulele at ten and began as an alto saxophonist at the age of twelve.

  2. www.encyclopedia.com › music-popular-and-jazz-biographies › artie-shawArtie Shaw | Encyclopedia.com

    May 29, 2018 · SHAW, ARTIE (Arthur Arshawsky; 1910–2004), jazz clarinetist, bandleader, composer, and arranger. Born in New York , Shaw joined Johnny Cavallaro's dance band in 1925 as an alto saxophonist. From 1926 to 1929 he worked in Cleveland as musical director and arranger for an orchestra led by Austin Wylie.

  3. May 1, 2022 · 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 the most critically acclaimed and nationally successful orchestras of the big band era.

  4. Art Shaw. Arthur Jacob Arshawsky. Jazz/Classical Clarinetist, Multi-Instrumentalist, Bandleader, Composer, Arranger, Author. (1910 - 2004) Clarinetist Artie Shaw’s eight marriages (among them glamorous movie stars Lana Turner and Ava Gardner), his irascibility, and his frequent sabbaticals from the music business paint a colorful picture.

  5. www.wikiwand.com › en › Artie_ShawArtie Shaw - Wikiwand

    Dec 30, 2004 · Artie Shaw (born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky; May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004) was an American clarinetist, composer, bandleader, actor and author of 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.

  6. Dec 30, 2004 · Immensely popular and startlingly innovative, Artie Shaw rose to prominence in the 1930s as a swing bandleader, master clarinetist, and boundary-crossing artist, who infused jazz with the influences of modern European composers. Born in 1910, he left New Haven, Connecticut, at age 15 to tour as a jazz musician.

  7. Dec 31, 2004 · He was 94 years old. Support Provided By: Learn more. The nation remembers clarinetist and Big Band leader Artie Shaw who died yesterday at age 94.

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