January 1, 2003 -- Artie Shaw American clarinetist and swing bandleader Artie Shaw (1910–2004), at the peak of his career in the years just before World War...
February 13, 2005 -- We are only undefeated because we have gone on trying. --T.S. Eliot I was never able to dispel the original loneliness and lose myself in the...
January 1, 2005 -- THE CLARINETTIST Artie Shaw was one of the great heroes of jazz. During the Swing Era, his good looks, sex drive and talent made him a gossip...
January 3, 2005 -- HOLLYWOOD -- Oscar-nominated clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw, whose recording of "Begin the Beguine" epitomized the Big Band era,...