Speaking by telephone Feb. 7 from his home in Worcester. Mass., Johnson recalled the time his manager met Shaw in a nearly deserted officers’ club at an equally deserted army base and passed along a ...

EASTON On the eve of America's entry into World War II, Time magazine reported that to the German masses the United States meant "sky-scrapers, Clark Gable and Artie Shaw." More than 40 years after ...

A year after the Glenn Miller Orchestra played there, the Artie Shaw Or-chestra will play the Fargo Theatre on June 18. The group features big band music by the late clarinet-playing band leader, who ...

Artie Shaw, a brilliant jazz clarinetist, was one of the most enigmatic, daring and adventurous bandleaders of the swing-era. An intellectual, he hated public life and the music industry. Over the ...

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 ...

Artie Shaw, the jazz clarinetist and band leader, is widely known for being an original stylist. He had several hits, including “Begin the Beguine,” the Cole Porter tune that came to represent the ...

Artie Shaw was a virtuoso clarinetist whose good looks and eight wives (including Lana Turner and Eva Gardner) made him a darling of the gossip page. He was also a bandleader extraordinaire and a ...

The Artie Shaw Orchestra is the final presentation of the Northwest Oklahoma Concert Series. The group will appear at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Herod Hall Auditorium on the campus of Northwestern Oklahoma ...

The Artie Shaw Orchestra, one of the most compelling big-bands ever, returns to Centenary Stage Company in Hackettstown, for a one-night-only concert on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. in The Whitney ...

Tickets go on sale at noon March 19 for the Artie Shaw Orchestra’s performance June 23 at the Bell Mehus Auditorium, 201 N. Sixth St., Bismarck. From “Begin the Beguine” to other standards, the Artie ...